Backend
You’d be surprised how much time one might devote to the tweaking of one’s backend… particularly when it doesn’t make a scrap of difference to the end user. Pages are now 98% static, and don’t rely on mod_rewrite to turn a jumble of PHP includes into an actual website. Dropping most of the PHP means Unicode characters can actually be used now, and dropping mod_rewrite means I can finally use trackbacks. Remarkable, the workflow that binds our expression.
In the transition, I replaced all the numeric entities in my archives with their proper Unicode counterparts. The results are… interesting. Wait, no. The other one. Tedious.
- 1 instance of a
¢being converted to a ¢ - 10 instances of a
×being converted to an × - 3 instances of a
àbeing converted to an à - 1 instance of a
èbeing converted to an è - 25 instances of a
ébeing converted to an é - 1 instance of a
ëbeing converted to an ë - 2 instances of a
ñbeing converted to an ñ - 1 instance of a
óbeing converted to an ó - 1 instance of a
öbeing converted to an ö - 3 instances of a
übeing converted to a ü - 1253 instances of a
–being converted to a – - 210 instances of a
—being converted to a — - 291 instances of a
‘being converted to a ‘ - 4067 instances of a
’being converted to a ’ - 568 instances of a
“being converted to a “ - 574 instances of a
”being converted to a ” - 706 instances of a
…being converted to a … - 6 instances of a
™being converted to a ™, and - 5 instances of a
→being converted to a →
Seven hundred ellipses. Four thousand apostrophes. My god. The fact that the number of opening and closing double–quotes doesn’t match is a little disturbing. Did I just forget that I’d started to put something in quotes? Maybe they were just half–hearted air–quotes. We’ll never know.
A quick checkup on the lonely ‘ö’ in the list tells use that Sascha Höhne has changed RAD.E8’s logo back to the good one, and has converted his previously–100%–flash portfolio into a crisp, clean, valid XHTML/CSS website. I couldn’t be more pleased.
And now back to the backend.