since it is no secret anymore, anyway: you can take a look at a list of urls that link to your antlog by adding /referrers to the url of your antville weblog, e.g. project.antville.org.

dunno but after installing antville and setting up mysql i get the message

 Error in application 'antville': 


Runtime error Field or property 'data' does not exists in object
 helma.framework.RequestTrans@1e1e67
detected at line 176 of function 'autoLogin' in file:
 'apps\antville\global\objectFunctions.js'
called at line 1 of function 'new_hop_action' in string starting with: 
'function new_hop_action
 (arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6,
 arg7, arg8, arg9, arg10) {'...

i am a complete newbie to all this so perhaps someone could please tell me what went wrong?

i just put a small update of antville into CVS.

• you can now decide if a story should appear only in topicspace or also in weblog (i had to change the simple checkbox to a dropdown in the story-creation/-editing form)
• each story appears in storymanager with a description where it's online
• slight changes in page-skin of weblog (moved call of membership-macro to statusloggedin/-out.skin)

hope everything works fine. please apply the db-patch 20011215 before using this new version (it changes the online-flags of existing stories).

  [HopMacro error: FESI.Exceptions.EcmaScriptException: Runtime error The function 'renderSkin' is not defined for object '' detected at line 32 of function 'skineditor_macro' in file: '/usr/local/hop/apps/antville/skinmgr/macros.js']

can you fix it?

finally i made it (uff!): a lot has changed, mostly structural changes inside the application, but some things are visible:

• restructured navigation-skins (they're additional now, so usernavigation is the most basic, and admin- and contribnavigation-skins are added according to user-rights). which means adding a navigation-link for all users simply means to edit one skin, not three ;-)
• restructured story-skins: there's only one skin for story-display left, and it's embedded in comment-, main- and preview-skin
• in weblog-preferences you now can define the small-font (including it's size and color)
• localisation in weblog-preferences is now done with one dropdown-box instead of forcing users to learn ISO-codes ;-)
• modifyable birthdate was removed from preferences (it seems that nobody has used it, so it was a nice try ...) the birthdate of a weblog is now it's create-date.
• for formatting timestamps each weblog has now two choices - "long" and "short". i didn't implement the "custom" dateformat since i couldn't find a nice way to do it 'til now, but i hope the choices offered are sufficient for now. all macros dealing with time now have two additional options: format="long" or format="short", plus still the ability for everyone to format timestamps with a custom format-pattern in a skin
• entering an invalid timestamp-format now doesn't lead to an ugly error-message (but you'll see if something is wrong).
• stories now have a "link me"-link
• header.skin is gone. it's included in page.skin
• editor.skin of weblog is gone too. all editor-pages now use the page.skin (it was just a try to save performance with having some lighter pages - i.e. without a recently modified-box and without calendar)
• there's a "create a story"-link now in the main navigation (so you don't have to go to storypool to get the link there)
• i tried to clean up redirects (although there's still some stuff left to do). so i.e. when you create a story that's offline, you'll get redirected to storymanager, if it's online you'll jump into the main view of the story.

but most of the changes were internal:

• i tried to give all objectFunctions a defined interface - all of the stuff needed by a function now must be passed as arguments to it. and - holy moly! - i started to add comments to the functions, at least some that should tell more about input/output ... but it's still not finished ...
• all securityFunctions now demand a user-object passed as argument, which should make them more independent.

i hope this makes the internal structure of antville a bit clearer, but due to some of these changes i'm pretty sure that there are new bugs (although i tested it). so please be patient ;-) i've added a db-patch for adding (and renaming) columns, and i apologize if my changes lead to cvs-conflicts on all contributor's sides. and as always: thanks a lot to all the contributions, ideas and responses! and of course: all these changes apply only to the antville-version in cvs, not to the version of antville.org (sorry, but we'll move to the new version sooooon)

i am continuing a former thread here.

a quick hack to ping weblogs.com is now running at hopdev for every updated public weblog: if a story was updated in between a certain period (currently 10 minutes as experimental value) AND the weblog was not ping'd in between this period, weblogs.com will receive the title and url of the weblog via get method (ie. url-based).

this method seems to be pretty slow (which is caused by the huge userland html output returned from getURL function, imho) and eventually we do have to use xml-rpc for this task.

it also might be necessary to add a checkbox to the preferences to toggle participation with weblogs.com.

i am thankful for more suggestions how to do this right.

i just downloaded the lates version and i have an error:   [HopMacro error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error retrieving Node: Column name: READS does not exist!]