News Improvements

You may have noticed some various improvements and changes to our news system; entries now get their own permalink pages and the most recent news entry shows up on the front page. These are some easily noticeable cosmetic changes demonstrating the new News DOMFilter. This filter aggregates pages following the YYYY/MMDD-name.xhtml format in a folder and places the most recent contents on one page. This is opposed to what we previously did, which was stuff all the news contents on one page and have a scraper generate RSS for us (by the way, we still use the same scraper, which is due to the quite nice modularity of the two filters).

There should be more improvements coming soon as we add the features and trappings of a standard “blog”; expect comments and improved navigation, for example. I also plan on launching a personal weblog for PHP and other development related things; stay tuned.

As usual, this software is all free and can be accessed under the XHTML Compiler project at repo.or.cz.