OK, I'm excited. I finally got around to adding a couple of new features to gemcast. First, each entry's Category line is now a link so you can jump to that particular category and read only that category's content. I started implementing this in code when I realized that I could do it via the template if I'd only publish the site's base URL as an template replacement attribute. So, it still took an additional one line of code, but obviously nothing fancy.
Secondly, I finally got around to "fixing" my Category sidebar box. Rather than show only the categories that are under the current category (which I think was a bit confusing), it now always shows all the categories available on the site, regardless of your location on the site. The result is that the site's structure much easier to see. This mainly took a little adjustment of the FileStore#getAllCategories method. Maybe one day I'll fix the display so it will look like a pretty hierarchy, instead of a filesystem dump (which is basically what it is).
These changes comprise gemcast v0.0.4. You can download the source here.
Posted: Sat Jun 21 22:02:49 -0700 2003