latest Raindrops::Watcher changes in raindrops.git

latest Raindrops::Watcher changes in raindrops.git

[Eric Wong]

I've made some attempts at UI/UX[1] improvements in raindrops.git:

* added title attributes to elements on index page to help navigation
* RDoc examples point to the demo site instead of example.com
* set Expires headers for cache invalidation
* prevent Rack::Deflater from buffering with "Cache-Control: no-transform"
* add link to the Watcher documentation

It's all running at http://raindrops-demo.bogomips.org/

Any other recommendations to make it easier to navigate for users?

No JavaScript, images, frames or any browser plugin requirements, of
course.  It has to be basic HTML renderable in text-only browsers.


You can just clone out the source tree[2] and run "make gem"
(or "gmake gem") to get a prerelease gem.

[1] I really do care a lot about UI/UX, I just very strongly
    dislike graphics and graphical doodads

[2] git clone git://bogomips.org/raindrops.git

-- 
Eric Wong

Re: latest Raindrops::Watcher changes in raindrops.git

[Eric Wong]

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> I've made some attempts at UI/UX[1] improvements in raindrops.git:
> 
> * added title attributes to elements on index page to help navigation
> * RDoc examples point to the demo site instead of example.com
> * set Expires headers for cache invalidation
> * prevent Rack::Deflater from buffering with "Cache-Control: no-transform"
> * add link to the Watcher documentation
> 
> It's all running at http://raindrops-demo.bogomips.org/
> 
> Any other recommendations to make it easier to navigate for users?

I haven't thought of any other user-visible changes, a few more internal
cleanups I just pushed out to "master" on git://bogomips.org/raindrops.git
below.  I think I'll release 0.6.0 today...

  commit 14423a47266bbb37fe0b2fe5f24cef9e26037e38
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Mon Mar 21 11:12:59 2011 -0700

      inet_diag: no need to rely on sin6_addr internals
      
      Seems to breaks under newer libc headers (on Debian sid).

  commit 4331e3f461af6d66bc8de48c336ece0938e3b59e
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Mon Mar 21 11:10:10 2011 -0700

      extconf: remove check for rb_struct_alloc_noinit()
      
      We no longer use it.

  commit f6af45add8c900b02f2b88617a765fa610fbe9aa
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Mon Mar 21 11:01:57 2011 -0700

      inet_diag: fix build under MRI 1.8.7

  commit 877433494e4a848d6c6a10d0e6521061e6a10118
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Mon Mar 21 10:57:30 2011 -0700

      inet_diag: FD_CLOEXEC for inet_diag sockets by default
      
      Very few programs can take advantage of inheriting FDs
      across exec() boundaries, and inet_diag sockets have no
      reason to be used in this way.

  commit a5d552d90942fe3c3d1adfc809638fd78992da6e
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Mon Mar 21 10:46:58 2011 -0700

      inet_diag: use rb_thread_io_blocking_region under 1.9.3dev
      
      It can detect cross-thread close() calls

  commit f86b02018a4195e199136eb0bd8d127d01cae154
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Mon Mar 21 10:27:59 2011 -0700

      watcher: remove redundant Rack::Response
      
      No need to duplicate code

-- 
Eric Wong