Few quick notes (BlogCFC, TV, and a Textmate query)
I just released an update to BlogCFC. This fixes a few small bugs, but one is pretty critical. On blogs with multiple authors, if a user edits another user's blog entry (to fix a typo for example), than that user will become the author of the blog. Thanks to Sean Corfield for finding that one.
Speaking of blogs with multiple authors, don't forget that myself, Scott Stroz, and Scott Pinkston are blogging over at Geek The Tube. That's my main place to blog about TV/movie stuff, and with the fall season starting up (I still don't know what to think about the Urinal Terminator) the activity is picking up again.
Lastly, a TextMate question. I notice when I use Textmate to edit files on another machine on my network (I believe both Mac and PC), it leaves behind a file of the same name with an underscore in front of it. Anyone know what this is? It may not just be TextMate, but that's my primary editor outside of Eclipse.
BlogCFC 5.9.1 Released
I've just upated BlogCFC to version 5.9.1. This is one of the biggest releases in a while. It's mainly a guilt release. As folks know, version 6 has been well delayed. I decided to work on the 5.x branch again and clear up some old bugs and features that I had planned for version 6. So what's new?
- You can now delete a comment via email. When you get the email notification of a new comment (you being the admin), you have a special link. Clicking on this link will delete the comment without you even needing to log in. Basically, fire and forget.
- In the same vein, if you have comment moderation turned on, the email will include a link to approve the comment. (Thanks to Brian Kotek.)
- You can now subscribe to an entry without having to post a comment.
- Podcasting support. This was written by Brian Meloche.
- For entry enclosures, you can now manually enter a file name. This is handy for files that are too big to upload via HTTP (like files for podcasting).
- Multiple small bugs and other changes to generally approve the platform.
You can download BlogCFC from RIForge at http://blogcfc.riaforge.org.
Uber Friday OS Report
I like the word Uber. Anyway, a bunch of updates today.
- Seeker was updated to include the Admin console. This now lets you list Lucene indexes as well as perform searches. You can also optimize and delete. ToDo: Form to add/index a new index. (Also ToDo are the things I mentioned before.)
- BlogCFC was updated with the latest ColdFish which should fix the CF6/7 issues.
- Galleon had a small update to the emails sent out to users.
- RIAForge. What to say? As you guys know, it has been suffering lately. A lot of folks have given advice, and I thank you. I removed the web SVN browser and it seems to have helped a lot. This does not impact the SVN server at all. Project owners can still use SVN. I just removed the web interface to browse SVN. The next issue I had was with MySQL. I was getting a max connection error. Again, multiple gurus stepped in to offer advice. I set a max connection limit in each of the DSNs on the box. So far, both of these changes seem to have helped quite a bit. Of course, it will probably go ape-youknowwhat while I'm at CFUNITED, but I'm hoping for the best.
Any questions, let me know.
BlogCFC and Galleon updates
I had decided to not work anymore on BlogCFC 5, but with 6 being delayed so long, I gave some love to the 5.X code base tonight. BlogCFC 5.9.003 was released tonight. Nothing major was changed, but I did switch to ColdFish, the code syntax highlighter written by Jason Delmore. This replaces the ancient code I had in there before.
Also released was an update to Galleon. This release fixes an issue related to the past security changes as well as a case sensitivity issue. (Sorry, but you will never convince me case sensitive file systems make sense. Who in the heck wants a file named foo.txt and Foo.txt??)
I also want to point out an interesting article by Ike: Porting Galleon Forums. He is porting Galleon to various frameworks and will be posting about the process.
BlogCFC, ColdFire Updates
Two quick updates this morning. I've released a minor update to BlogCFC. This update fixes another date issue (curse the world for daring to treat dates differently!) and adds some more xmlFormatting-love to the RSS output. I have not forgotten about BlogCFC V6 (aka Golden Snitch). With the holidays it has taken a back seat to other concerns, and frankly, I'd rather go slow then badly. I'm hoping to push another update out this month.
Next, ColdFire has been updated with a few minor bug fixes. This was all done by Nathan Mische, so all thanks go to him!
BlogCFC Export/Import Code
I'm now in the export/import business. Well, kinda. If you use BlogCFC and need a tool to export/import your blog entries, download the attachment below. This was tested with the latest 5.9 build of blogcfc. It outputs to WDDX files in a specified folder. You can then use the import comment to read in those WDDX files to a new BlogCFC instance. This may become an official BlogCFC tool for V6, but for now it is an unsupported utility.
A big thank you to digital primates. They needed the tool and paid me to development, then said they were cool with me giving it to the world.
10,000 Downloads - Do I get a gold watch?
Via Ed Tabara, it looks like the downloads of BlogCFC crossed 10,000. Wow! Not that it really matters of course. This puts BlogCFC in second place at RIAForge. FLEXible has me beat by close to 500 downloads. (Ok, time to execute the 'massageMyStats' hack!)
Update #2: BlogCFC 5.9
- Pinging will use CFTHREAD in ColdFusion 8, making the saving of a new blog entry much quicker.
- Added a contact form. I believe Charlie Arehart blogged on this - but I know it is really frustrating to hit a blog and have no idea how to contact a user. Now all BlogCFC installs will have a simple contact form built in.
The readme.txt file describes all the changes.
Now lets have a moment of silence. This is the last release of the BlogCFC 5.X code base. The end of the entire code base. BlogCFC 6 development officially begins next week. (Although I've been playing with some code already.) I plan to do this build much different than earlier versions.
First off - there will be a whole new SVN line. This way I can push any bug fixes to BlogCFC 5.9 and keep BlogCFC 6 in it's own sandbox. Secondly - I'm going to be bringing more people into the process. In the past I've been accused (fairly) of being a bit... tight with my code. I want to make V6 more open. I'll probably even be giving a few people write access. (Breathe deeply, Ray.) I've got some big plans and I'll definitely need help. Please be sure to follow the progress at BlogCFC.com.
Important Update for BlogCFC Users
If you use BlogCFC, please edit your style sheets so that the code style adds "courier new" to the list of fonts and changes the size to 1em. For a while now I've been wondering why code blocks were small on BlogCFC sites, but only on my Mac. I want to thank Chris Jordan for sending me the fix and sharing it on the cfbloggers listserv.
Oops, forgot to paste the final code:
.code {
font-family: "courier new",courier,monospace;
font-size: 1em;
color: black;
border: solid thin #0000cc;
background-color: #ffffcc;
overflow: auto;
max-height: 200px;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 4px;
line-height: 15px;
margin:5px 0 5px 0;
}
Windows Live Writer and BlogCFC
I added XML-RPC support back to BlogCFC a few versions ago, and promptly forgot about it, mainly because it was a royal pain in the you know what to test and work with it. But I know that some people prefer using XML-RPC clients to write their blog entries so I was happy to add it. Dan Vega has written an excellent article which walks you through setting up Windows Live Writer (an XML-RPC client) and connecting it to BlogCFC. (I'm almost tempted to start working on AIR client, but if reading requests from XML-RPC was bad, I can't imagine what generating them would be like.)