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January 31st, 2007 | 10:18 pm cdt

My Bloody Valentine went very well. A large crowd was on hand for a good portion of the evening. It was also good to see Jim and Emily again. The East Nashville area has really improved as of late.

I was late to post the show photo because I’ve been busy working with Ernie on an update to Candor Gallery. Hopefully later this week the new version will be released. This version will include a Previous button on the widget, but also a gallery on the website that will display all the works and artists with links to their respective websites. All this in a nice browsable setting. So look forward to that very soon!

For all you Nashville folks, I received an email pointing me to iBegin. There’s limited listings at the moment, but the site certainly has potential.

Now I must return to Candor and the world of CSS goodness…

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Jim.

My amateur advice, is to start by picking a random rowid in the newest 10-15% of your repository. Then move at n+1 from there. At that point, you can do a forward and backward button relatively painlessly up to the point that the end of the repository is reached.

If you want to mix it up more, you can pick a random number, have it move forward x number of times, then pick randomly again. It would be a little more complicated to do the history, but still more manageable that total randomness.

Are you going to do total history, or say the last 10? If you limit the browsable history, then you can easily have a small text file (or even private array) that keeps up with rowids as you go. Thus achieving randomness and history, just be sure the keep the array in bounds so you don't eat memory.

I probably didn't say anything that you two haven't already thought out. I think the bounded array to hold history would be the coolest. You'd have to do Filesystem I/O if you want to save the history elsewhere for preservation, which would be a performance hit.
Cale

The widget randomly pulls from the database when a request is made. We haven't really talked about how we're going to order the web gallery. At the moment I think we have it set to display sorted by row ID. I figure we should probably do that, starting with the newest first just to keep the content fresh whenever you navigate to the page. Any ideas are welcome, however.
Jim.

I've asked you this before, but does Candor cycle randomly, or is it in a set order? I'm just wondering if you are going to have a local repository of sorts to keep up with history, or if you are just going to randomly start people on a certain part of the cycle, and use n-1 to go back.

I don't even know if that makes sense.