Well, I’ve upgraded the backside of the comic. (Pauses to let snickering die down.)<\/p>\n
And this time I think I’ve managed to do an upgrade without mangling a huge chunk of code. I’ve been using Newbsoft’s Walrus<\/a> as a delivery system since the start, with a few modifications to make the comic look different than the default installation. The new Walrus separates a lot of the server-side PHP code from the HTML, which makes it easier to modify the look and feel of the site without mucking up something important.<\/p>\n And speaking of mucking up important stuff, sometime last year I managed to drop a bad tag into the comic’s RSS feed<\/a>. That’s fixed now, so if you’re a comic feed subscriber you’re about to get swamped with six months of updates all at once.<\/p>\n Also, the new Walrus install makes for an easier, automated archive page<\/a>. As a result, I’ve gone into the RSS feed and trimmed out all but the last six months of comics. This should speed up load times considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’ve upgraded the backside of the comic. (Pauses to let snickering die down.) And this time I think I’ve managed to do an upgrade without mangling a huge chunk of code. I’ve been using Newbsoft’s Walrus as a delivery … Continue reading