The Eighty-Twenty Solution

26 September 2003

Never Fear Sir, For I Have a Cunning Plan...

I've posted 8 times in the past month, and 2 of my posts have contained links with a query string. Radio seems to have developed a charming habit of trashing the equal sign in a query string.

• This entry contained a garbage character in the query string, which which got replaced with some other garbage when I tried to edit it over email. At least this garbage is valid XML.
• The previous post that had a query string got trashed, and then Radio escaped my markup when I tried to fix it (that could have been my fault, trying to fix the post hastily). That post is staying the way it is, I've tried fixing it 3 times now.

Radio seems to have a general problem with escaping characters and creating well-formed XML in general. I'm about ready to pull the plug on this and try something else. Cornerhost and Thoughtlocker seem to be reliable and offer most of what I want (LAMP, on a reasonable budget), though Thoughtlocker seems to give a bit more for the money and also provides Ruby.

Then there's this other wild idea. I've been working with Scheme and SSAX lately and I'm really intrigued. PLT is a nice, if idiosyncratic, IDE, and SISC could be made to run in a Java Servlet. One other possibility would be to use SSAX to generate xHTML fragments and then use something like Bloxsom on the server side to manage the static files.

— Gordon Weakliem at 2003-09-26 12:14:23 PM Mountain Daylight Time permanent link