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The Code Style site has evolved by gradual refinement and accumulation of features and content. This review is part of a fully backdated site log and archive that sheds light on when, why and how particular features were implemented.
This log is sometimes updated several times per week, sometimes with a long overdue backlog of items. Many log entries refer to the Code Style Java package that delivers the servlet services and utilities used to manage this site.
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Reverse chronology
29th October 2000
Started a content plan to prepare for the site launch and ultimately to preview forthcoming articles and developments. Also renamed the XML directory to just /xml/, changed some links include files to upgrade their hierarchy to <h2 class="Rule">..., roughed-out initial Java & servlets and XML & XSLT section home pages.
17th October 2000
Altered JServ configuration to new Xerces and Xalan locations and changed incorrect case in archive file references. Simple XSLT servlet now working online too.
15th October 2000
Started developing a more generic set of XSLT documents for building Code Style pages on the fly from simple XML file databases.
14th October 2000
Started article on installing Tomcat on Windows 95, and the first working example of a simple XSLT servlet. Moved the Xerces.jar and Xalan.jar archives to a separate /lib/ directory outside the document root and similar separate directories for /xml/ and /xsl/.
11th October 2000
Uploaded .htaccess file to set appropriate MIME types for HTML, CSS, WML, WBMP, Flash (and enable script handling):
AddType "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" html
AddType "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" htm
AddType "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" shtml
AddType text/css css
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf
AddType application/futuresplash spl
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml wml
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp
Added feedback form to the home page with a form handler script and uploaded a version of the main sidebar with holding content in place of links. Moved all Java source and references to /classes/ and established a new content directory in /java/ for Java and servlet articles.
Deleted P{text-align: justify} from CSStandard.css to avoid extreme word spacing in lines before long un-broken code elements.
10th October 2000
Started using SSI to include CSS files in pre elements rather than copying the content and maintaining the changes on example pages. Further conversions to complete. Extracted .URI {margin-right} declaration from grouped .URI a:<pseudoclass> declarations to undo over-compensation for "compound" effect of grouping on the margin-right property.
9th October 2000
Configured generic email forwarding for all @codestyle.org and @codestyle.org.uk addresses.
Previously on Code Style
These backdated pages record detailed changes to the Code Style Web site since July 2000, when development first got underway. Some pages may refer to documents or features that have since changed or are no longer part of the site, but the archive is checked to ensure there are no dead links.
Site log, origins to present
For a summary overview, see the annotated site log contents.
