S2 memories

My S2 articles

mart — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:21:06 GMT

A while back I wrote a very small series of articles about S2. It was intended to be bigger, but at the time there was little interest in S2 and thus my own interest in writing them waned.

The original two, now listed under “More Advanced Topics” were aimed at those who had already got the hang of S2 but wanted to learn some useful techniques and best practices. Later on I added a third article about overriding parts of a layout using a user layer which describes how to override Page::print while keeping the rest of the layout intact. None of these articles are especially brilliant, but I thought I'd link to them here just for the sake of completeness and in the hope that someone will find them useful.

Tools and resources

livredor — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:11:09 GMT

Please comment to this post with links that might be useful for people working with S2, that are not necessarily in LJ posts and so can't be added to memories.

S2 docs (official version)
S2 Core defining the basics, eg system-defined functions and classes for use in S2
kunzite1's tools (tool for posting S2 code, set command generator, palimg preview utility)
s2up (mart's Perl tool for uploading S2 layers)
Beginner's guide to S2 (by mart, only partially written)
another beginner's guide (by xevinx, also partially written)
small collection of S2-related links from s2layers
another small collection of links from ljstyleoverride
collection of tutorials, mainly for Component from xmirax's memories

Link dump

cmshaw — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:48:14 GMT

Some highlights from my "lj" memories category:

Dev tools

Code bits

Features/documentation

S2 communities

livredor — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:34:53 GMT

Here is a list of all the S2 relevant communities I know about. Please comment with any more.

Help communities

Layout-specific

s2component (official but mostly out of date)
component_help
opal_help
boxer_help
s2_tranquility
s2tranquility2
s2flexisquares
s2haven
s2unearthed
s2variableflow
s2nebula (official; does not accept help requests)
3column
s2smoothsailing

Specialist

s2_comms (friends various S2 communities)
s2layers (for sharing user-written layers)
ljstyleoverride (a user experimenting with LJ styles, some useful S2 information)
lj_style (official LJ style developers' community; mostly S1 but there may be useful stuff buried in it)
lj_stylecontest (the submissions for the style contest, and discussion of them, including links to code for non-system public layers)

Tutorials

Official tutorials
Component tutorials from component_help; very comprehensive, but not official.