I’m working to adapt the interactive ballot at Demochoice.org for the ranked voting part of this system. Things started well, but I’m still dealing with a dymanic javascript creation routine. For the time being it looks like that feature will add a lot of code to the published page. At some point down the line, […]
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I’ve got my first version of the database script uploaded into the test area, with a few tables, some data inserts for two elections, and a couple of views. The only hitch was that dreamhost had case sensititvity turned on, so my inserts didn’t work right off. If they had, I would have considered it […]
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A tool called MagpieRSS has made my life a lot easier. I used it to parse and print the RSS feed from Google’s blog search. On the advice of something I read somewhere I converted all of Magpie’s .inc extensions to .php, which required editing some functions inside the relevant scripts. No big deal. Being […]
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By Friday night I was playing with skins on the blog and had figured out how to get a raw RSS listing to display via PHP. It was getting late, and we were hungry so I left the raw stuff up there and went out to dinner. (I should probably get around to installing Apache […]
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This first comment is part of a big experiment. I’m testing my own abilities to create a new kind of online straw poll, and to develop the skills I’ll need to build that site. I’m starting out with tools that are easily available… mySQL, PHP, CSS, and Java script. Wordpress is a nice supplement, and […]
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