Slashdot Code Updating

Dave and I are spending the afternoon fixing up Slashdot code today, so you may notice a few things. First, the cron job which updates Slashdot is offline this afternoon, so comments won't update every 60 seconds- we will run it manually every once and a while so things keep going though. Hit the link below if you're curious whats changing. Updated

Tons of changes on the back end:

• Less reliance on text files, more reliance on SQL (Check)
• Perl code to retrieve URLs instead of lynx *grin* (Check, Sort of)
• Fixing sid generator (Check)
• Cleaning up administrative code. (Check)
• Bugs in poll editor (Check)

New article.pl with silly new features (flat comments etc) (Done, all except cookies are still broken

Moving comment code to slashmod (Check)

Comments on polls (Check)

And maybe if I have time

Homepages for features & book review sections (Nope)

Put old book reviews into database (Nope)

Allright its been a fun day. Now I want to watch Brazil.