Another fruitfull evening with my brother. I updated my object that stores comic images to include timestamps. This will allow me to pull only the latest comic when creating the page where you view the comics. Also we worked a bit on my HTML template for that view. Next I’m going to create a view that returns the file field string for the latest comic and create the cron job I mentioned in my last post. Things are moving!
Archive for January, 2014
Did some research today and found a solution to my need of pulling image content from a target website on a schedule. There is an api called Cron that lets you schedule “Cron jobs” that do exactly what I need.
So my two new short term goals are to implement Cron into my funny pages project, and to figure out a view that presents my images on a clean, easy to read page.
Eric agreed to spend each Monday night helping me kickstart a new week of coding. Tonight with his help I set up a github repository for funnypages, activated the admin page, and repaired my media root. I’ll spend the rest of the week looking for a way to check sites for updates and grab their images.
Trials in Snake Charming 