av8rmike

I'm cross-posting this entry from Dreamwidth for some reason, even though it is all about things LiveJournal. Also, I'm still deciding how much involvement I want to continue to have here (DW).

So, Vegas. I can't do a day-by-day round-up of everything that went on because it's already a little hazy in my memory, but suffice it to say that everything was awesome and we had so much fun. (OK, sitting in traffic for an hour trying to get to Hoover Dam wasn't as fun, but that's life.) Some highlights:

• The house kicked ass, but everyone who was there already knows that.


• Jamie and I trying to make rice pudding in the auxiliary kitchen for 20+ people, then screwing up and subsequently salvaging the recipe.


• Seeing the NV State Museum with gameboyguy13 and teshiron.


• Finding a Lucille's BBQ while hunting for an Original Pancake House.


• Of course, the big Cheesecake Factory group dinner, and meeting up with a friend I hadn't seen since high school (who lives in LV). The long-ass table wasn't the optimal seating arrangement for conversations, unfortunately. If only the people at the opposite end of the table had seen the text messages I was sending them. ;)


• Instead of Melting Pot, Moroccan food at Marrakech (no offense to those who went to MP, but I think we had much better food).


• Collecting "cards" while on the Strip and seeing the Bellagio fountain show.


• The aforementioned driving out to Hoover Dam with more people than I can mention.


• Running into burr86 and hachi while trying to meet up with them at the Atomic Testing Museum.


• Mille Bournes and Monty Python Fluxx (finally!) with ferrell, elyssa, stevieg, and snarkbite.


• MST3k with coffeechica, Glee with danceinacircle, and talking shop with aveleh and the_kitty_kat.

Everyone else I didn't mention, thanks just for being your wonderful selves.

Oh, the things you see in other people's journals while doing Support.

**does not understand the motivations behind "slash"**

(Probably only of interest to camomiletea, scaryjeff, afuna, or anyone else in Styles support)

There was a recent request about substituting a user's default userpic for the one they'd selected for a particular post. We figured it was possible through S2, but we don't give that level of detail through Support. I found out something interesting while trying to figure it out for myself...

The S2 Core stores the entry user icon in $userpic, an Image member of the EntryLite class (usually called in print_entry() like $e.userpic.url). A user's default icon is stored in the User class, which is derived from UserLite. EntryLite class also contains a UserLite object called $poster, the author of the entry. Since Expressive (unlike other layouts) passes the EntryLite object into print_entry() directly, I thought I could get away with something like this:

var User u = $e.poster as User;
var Image def_pic = $u.default_pic;
var string userpic = ($showuserpic and defined $e.userpic) ? ($def_pic + "<br />") : "";

It compiles, but it doesn't work, it just comes up with an empty string. Even trying to isolate the Image members doesn't work:

var string pic_url = """<img src="$def_pic.url" alt="$e.userpic.alttext" title="$e.poster.name" height="$def_pic.height" width="$def_pic.width" />""";

Maybe afuna or someone who knows the back-end better knows why, but I guess you can't re-cast a UserLite object like you can an EntryLite (print_entry() in Expressive re-casts the EntryLite argument into a Comment or Entry object, depending on the type). Even if the preceding were possible, this approach wouldn't work in most layers anyway, because they call print_entry() on Entry objects.

I wonder how much of this I have correct, given that I don't have a personal Plus account...

	Page:	Basic/EA	Plus	Paid/Perm	Site Pages
User:		Display ads to:
Basic/EA	See ads on:	N	Y	N	N
Plus		N	Y	N	Y
Paid/Perm		N	N	N	N
Logged-out		Y	Y	N	Y

http://community.livejournal.com/privchange/379979.html

Guess who's the newest SupportHelp in Styles?
I'd never have figured out that puzzle on my own, though.

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I'm also being told I'm hooked for life now...