It's been bothering me that you can't make use of the cool new templates stuff in blogger 2 when you're hosting your own blog. One thing I found really annoying was that there's no clear way to have a tag cloud of your tagged posts. So I just threw together this little bit of code that generates a tag cloud based on file sizes in your labels folder, it was quicker and easier than counting occurence of a string in each file and I thinks it's good how it's representitive of how much I've written rather than how many posts. It makes plain old HTML and sticks it in an app variable, i recommend running it on app start and maybe on another url to run when you need. (Yes I know it's classic ASP, just don't ask!) '############## OPTIONS scaleSize = 0.9 baseSize = 0.6 labelsPath = "/labels/" '###################### strCloud="" set fs = createobject("Scripting.filesystemobject") set folder = fs.getFolder(server.MapPath(labelsPath)) iHighest = 0 iLowest = 10000 iCount = 0 for each file in folder.files if file.size > iHighest then iHighest = file.size end if if file.size < iLowest then iLowest = file.size end if iCount=iCount+1 next for each file in folder.files strCloud=strCloud&"<a href="""&labelsPath&file.name&""" style=""font-size:"&((file.size-iLowest)/(iHighest-iLowest)*scaleSize)+baseSize&"em;"">"&left(file.name,instrrev(file.name,".")-1)&"</a> " next application("tagcloud") = strCloud

Labels: blogger, tagcloud, tagging

This is a simple user script to make your del.icio.us tags scale to reflect the number of items, like they do on flickr and other such things. You'll need Greasemonkey to run it. I was surprised del.icio.us didn't do this already, I thought maybe there was an option somewhere. I'm still worried there might be one and I'll look like a fool for posting this, but here it is anyway.

Labels: delicious, greasemonkey, tagcloud, tagging