The beta testing is going smoothly. Many bugs have been reported and fixed, and I believe that there are only 2 minor bugs at the moment. I've resisted the urge to tear it apart and delay it by a month but only because I think I'd get beaten up by you guys.
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I just released vBlogetin Beta 1 to the beta testers. Finally! I'm not sure how long we will give them to break it (well hopefully not too much!) but you guys should be getting your hands on it pretty soon I think. I for one am very excited. 
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Both the blog (entries) and the entry (comments) feeds have been fixed. For the entries, we were using the "entry" tag from an old template version where we should have instead been using "item. Comments also had incorrect "link" and "guid" values. [...]
We were finally able to install vBlogetin today! This will be used as a demo for the product, and also to power our news. Feel free to setup a blog of your own and toy around with it as much as you'd like. That's what it's there for! [...]
I'm nearly done with the permission changes (which I am very happy with), I think the last area I need to fix is the comment stuff and I'm about to do that now. We've also been fixing bugs and there just aren't that many left! [...]
Again!! Okay, this is the last time, I promise. I completely tore this thing to shreds because it wasn't working. I was having to pass large arrays like $blogsettings, $entry, $comment all the time without any references. I was having to pass more than 1 piece of data too sometimes, and that was impossible without using global variables. This became a huge problem with scope causing random bugs. [...]
The blog buddy list has been moved onto the blog settings page (not sure why it wasn't always here...) and placed it inside the Private Blog area. An option has been added (on by default) to synchronize users' vBulletin buddy lists with their blog buddy lists. If it is enabled, it will collapse the buddy list area and whenever you save your vBulletin buddy list it will update both lists. Users can always uncheck the box, and have another customized list here. [...]
The past month I had some family issues to take care of which cut my coding time by 2-3 solid hours a day, and also completely shot my ability to focus. Things should start picking up again because I'll be working full time again on Monday. This weekend I will be continuing with bug fixes and some other minor changes. [...]
