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Fixing code
I fixed the small problem in the code [1] and I see that it's behaving
itself.
Good.
I also spent some time making sure the codebase on the development server and
the webserver were in sync (good thing because they weren't), cleaning up the
code (getting rid of code that isn't used) and making sure it's still
portable (by compiling it under Mac OS-X).
I also started to address some issues I have with internal duplicate content
[2], which are two different pages having the same content.
Boy, do I have that in spades.
For instance, the link to todays page is
http://boston.conman.org/2007/**05**/**03**.1 (note the leading zeros) but
the link
http://boston.conman.org/2007/**5**/**3**.1 will also work (note the
lack of leading zeros). Google says it doesn't matter [3], but for me, it's
an issue of aesthetics, and I would prefer the former style (with the leading
zeros) over the latter (sans leading zero, and yes, mod_blog [4] doesn't
always generate links like I want it to). I added code to detect the non-
leading zero references (which I didn't do) but was amused to find that I had
code to detect some other variations (which aren't used that much, if at all)
that's been there probably from the beginning (late 1999 [5]).
So I was aware of the issue seven years ago (imagine that!) but didn't finish
that particular feature (since getting it running was more of a priority than
getting all the fiddly bits right). I suspect I didn't finish it because
handling the generalized case [6] will take a bit more code than I expected,
in order to generate redirects to a “canonical” URL (Uniform Resource
Locator).
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/05/01.2
[2]
http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2007/04/duplicate_conte.html
[3]
http://forums.webconfs.com/t507-google-says-duplicate-content-is-ok.html
[4]
https://boston.conman.org/about/
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:1999/12
[6]
https://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html
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