posted 28/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentI'm on a role tonight! I fixed another major bug which I just found upon releasing alpha 9 on my site. I never noticed it earlier, because it has to do with those pesky timezone settings. If any of you havn't noticed yet: most of you will have the calendar displaying a very incorrect ... for the lack of a better term: layout. It ends on 29 and starts offset. On all the sites I looked at, it was actually a July calendar. It wasn't a major bug because it didn't affect anything - just appearance. All the links remainted intact. [...]
posted 27/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentThe other thing I've been working on a lot lately is the template editing system. I've made some minor improvements to the class file itself, such as more logging options. The developer can now choose to log to file, database, throw fatal (configurable) errors, or log silently to an array as it is now. This will prove extremely useful, to something such as my next paragraph... [...]
posted 27/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentSo the biggest (currently) bug was to do with bbcode parsing and cutting entries off at X chars. Scenario 1: we parse the string, then cut it in half. If there is any bbCode surrounding the entire entry, then you're left with broken HTML from the bbcode. Scenario 2: we parse the bbCode after cutting the entry in half. Now, we're left with broken bbCode, which, depending on the bbCode used, mangle the entry unreadable. An example would be if the user set their entry bg-color to black, and the font to white. The opening fon't tag won't be parsed and you're left with an unreadable entry. [...]
posted 18/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentYep, we're still working on it! Subscriptions are now done, except for a few inconsistencies we have to work out. Other than that, we will just be trying to clear out the current bug list before release. It could be tonight, it could be tomorrow, it could be 2009. My personal guess is tonight though. [...]
posted 17/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentJust letting you guys know that the demo site is back online now. If you find any major problems let me know ASAP... [...]
posted 15/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentWe are getting closer and closer to being 100% again! In my efforts to prevent any datastore errors, I've setup a default datastore array which will be used whenever the cached data is corrupt, invalid, etc. It has already saved me one heartache today! [...]
posted 15/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentOkay, not quite finished yet, but I'll let you guys know what's happening. Subscriptions can be added, and viewed when viewing a blog (subscribed icon), as well as work (meaning they send the emails as expected, when expected). What's left is to do the blog manager where you can list/view/edit/cancel subscriptions. This is essentially the east part. I may also add the subscribed icons to other areas listing entries and blogs (directory, etc). [...]
posted 13/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentSomething with the drafts was really bothering me. While I was in the processing of adding the cron job to automatically publish drafts at their set date - I noticed some major flaws with how it is setup. This fixed a few draft logic problems, as well as another bug I found a few days ago. [...]
posted 13/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentvBlogetin is almost back to its fully working state it was in before the changes. Since yesterday, the WOL locations have been mended, and many errors fixed. There are still a few known ones I have to iron out, and probably a few unknown ones. I guess you can expect to see the demo online again within a day or so! [...]
posted 12/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentSorry for the demo being down for so long (and possibly a few days to come). I took down the site until it was stable enough to be public again. [...]
posted 11/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentI invested some time yesterday to make you guys happy. As nice as that sounds, it was a selfish move, personally hating the cause of this generosity. [...]
posted 11/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentWe've been tweaking and fixing things all over the place during the past few days, so don't think we've been slacking! One thing specifically which we did today was comment links. Before, it wouldn't go to the correct page if the comments were spanning. [...]
posted 09/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentI shouldn't go into too much detail about the nature of the bug, but I'll just say since it was found, I was having nightmares. Anyway, the bug was fixed bringing the processing time down from 80 seconds to 0.06. [...]
posted 08/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentThere has been some more major progress with blog and entry subscriptions in the past 24 hours! Adding and removing subscriptions works, and they are sending the right data out at the right times for daily/weekly. So what's left is instant (entry) notifications, as well as the "management" side from the blog manager. This feature will probably need some heavy testing, especially regarding permissions. [...]
posted 08/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentvBlogetin 1a8 has been released! The biggest change (as explained in previous entries) was the move to entry categories. Other than that, there have been modifications to the blocks system, as well as probably hundreds of various other tweaks/fixes. Also, I'd like to give a special thanks to cheesegrits and Basboss for their increasing help. [...]
posted 07/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentI aplogize for the alpha 8 delay; we are still working out some minor bugs with the install package. You can expect it to be up tonight by the latest. There has finally been progress with the subscriptions, so the ETA for beta still seems to be on track!
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posted 06/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentLast night we added an "allow overwrite" option to block imports, which updates any existing blocks upon importing. However, it was also renumbering the IDs, so we're changed everything to use the varname column instead of the blockid column. We're still testing to make sure everything is back up to 100%. Once we are confident that everything is okay, we will continue with releasing alpha 8. [...]
posted 05/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentWe have tested and successfully installed alpha 8 a few times! Expect to see it within a day or so. The biggest change is the category functionality, as well as many bug fixes and even more minor tweaks. [...]
posted 04/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentIn our efforts to keep things easier for users, we have made some changes to how things look... There are 3 sections in vBlogetin: the generally public areas (directory, search, top blogs/entries), the blog manager and the blogs. [...]
posted 02/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentIf a user's permissions are set to have new entries moderated, it has been changed so that editing the entry sends it back to the moderation queue (by popular request). [...]
posted 02/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentOkay, I added the (usergroup controlled) ability for users to create their own categories. The adminCP-created categories will display for everyone, but the user specific ones will of course only show up for that user. I have it working when posting, viewing and in the categories block. I think the last place is searching, but I'm unsure if I want to display all the user-created categories there... [...]
posted 02/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentThe category change has taken place! Most the prefix functionality has been restored/altered, but there is still the user category functionality that needs to be added now. Just a recap: Entries have categories, and blogs just... exist. Right-o. [...]
posted 02/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentOkay, well after some careful consideration, we've decided to scrap the prefix and blog category functionality. It's just not much use. What we are going to do is change it so entries have categories instead of prefixes. Blog's don't need any categorization themselves - as the content will probably vary. [...]
posted 02/09/2006 in
vBlogetin DevelopmentUnfortunately, we lose all of the old data with the development news. But, the good news is this blog will be updated much more frequently than the last. Just for reference, here is the old copy, so you can still read the old data. [...]
