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Haven’t released it to the community yet, but I recently created a quote sidebar component. I’ve been trying to figure out how to stick the quotes in a database instead of in a flatfile with yaml, but I’m not sure what there is for cross-database random selection of elements from mysql. It also makes an interesting question for the sidebar config admin system. It’s nice to be able to drag and drop components but should they all really be configured in the drag and drop interface? The most intelligent way to have a quotes configuration utility would be to add a new quote/author pair for every AJAX add. However that would make the quote entry in the sidebar config far, far too long. Perhaps there should be a way to select and order which sidebar entry to configure and then put the sidebar configuration off to the side?

I also need to determine how to reduce the complexity of the generated queries I am using for the the calendar sidebar entry as it winds up being a rather slow entry. It’s really an excellent example of a component that only needs to be re-rendered on an update or for looking at an older month so it shouldn’t be that slow, but I’m not quite sure how the auto-caching works and if it works well for this.