Today I fixed a bug in the URL class that prevented the display of quote context for sources that were cited more than once per post. This was caused by a bad data-structure decision: using a dictionary, rather than a list of dictionaries. One … [Read more]
Unicode Encoding Issues: 3-byte characters
In two of my previous posts I describe how I've been able to improve the Unicode text-processing that computes a citation's unique identifier. A recent bug that cropped in the computing of the hash key occurs when a character in the hash key … [Read more]
Understanding the CiteIt.net Front-end Code
Video Transcript Hello, this is Tim Langeman, creator of CiteIt.net:a citation app which enables web authors to easily demonstrate the authenticity and context of their quotations to skeptical and curious readers. Today's video is targeted at … [Read more]
Incorporating Google Link Text Fragments into CiteIt
Several weeks ago, a colleague of mine sent me a link to an Ars Technica article about a project which complements CiteIt.net by allowing writers to link to a specific portion of an Html document, and if necessary, automatically scroll down the page … [Read more]
Unicode Bug Fix in WordPress Plugin (Javascript uses UTF-16)
I've known for a while that a Unicode bug was preventing the javascript CiteIt.net javascript hash function from matching the python hash function. I did some research into this recently and discovered that javascript uses UTF-16, while my Python … [Read more]
WordPress TinyMce Quotes now support Html Formatting
Previous versions of the CiteIt WordPress stripped the html encoding from the selected quote. This removed bold, italics, and links. Tonight in v0.64 I modified the tinymce editor to include the html: onsubmit: function( e ) … [Read more]
Lancaster WordPress Meetup
Tonight was the first Lancaster WordPress meetup since the coronavirus started. We met outside at the Long's Park Pavillion. I had the group test-drive the WordPress plugin on the demo site. The main suggestion they had was to create a custom … [Read more]
WordPress Editor “Preview” Bug Fixed
This weekend I fixed a bug in the Citeit.net WordPress plugin that prevented authors who have published an article to "Preview" their citations. This was caused by the "Preview" mode appending querystrings to the permalink, which breaks the quote … [Read more]
CiteIt.net Webservice now Live!
On Sunday I finally figured out how to get the CiteIt.net web service working with Docker. This will allow me to move forward with beta testers. Yesterday, I tested the latest WordPress plugin with my friend Will. He discovered a validation … [Read more]
Two Contributions to CiteIt
Now that I'm home quarantined for the Coronavirus I have time to document two contributions to CiteIt over the past few months. The first contribution was from Alex Meyer, who lives about a mile from me and whom I know through the Lancaster Linux … [Read more]
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