Sword

Comment and TrackBack spam

2006-08-23T02:51:14+02:00

All this comment and TrackBack spam is getting annoying, so I will be implementing some anti-spam measures in the next couple of weeks.

Sword 1.0beta5

2005-08-19T02:48:49+02:00

It’s been about 13 days and 31 SVN checkins since the previous beta version.

This new version contains several fixes in both code and tests. And it adds a new feature: TrackBack support.

This supports both receival and sending of TrackBack pings. So now we can finally have blog-conversations. ;)

Cache expiration bug

2005-08-07T11:23:34+02:00

Of course when you try to page cache your application, you have to think of a lot of things. We added page caching before posts were ever displayed on the welcome page. And then after we added a summary of posts on the welcome page, we forgot to add support for this to the sweepers.

It should now be fixed.

Sword 1.0beta4

2005-08-06T00:31:43+02:00

It’s been about 11 days and 41 SVN checkins since the previous beta version.

This new version contains the following fixes and updates:

fixed RSS and Atom feed links
changed temporary texts with a more sane version
removed title from comments (only adds complexity for users)
removed the need to fill in contact information for a comment when the user is logged in
made RSS 2.0 feed ‘Atomic’ (see Atomic RSS)
added instructions how to run this weblogging tool
made sure users cannot change their weblog name (this would break permalinks significantly and furthermore it would be uncommon to change the location of your weblog)
added some patches to Rails which are not yet included in the Rails repository
give the user a choice to use the live preview or not
live preview contains rendered content when editing a post
store contact information for comment in cookie if user wants this
show email-address of commenter when user is logged in
totally reworked management of categories (heavy Ajax use)
show category in which post is made
fixed several pieces of invalid XHTML

The layout has been tuned a bit such that everything looks a bit more uniform. And it’s now easier to distinguish between published and draft posts when a user is logged in.

Sword 1.0beta3

2005-07-27T04:08:40+02:00

Yeah, there is yet another version…

This version contains:

fixed caching bug (Atom feed cache is now expired when posts are added, updated or destroyed)
added RSS feed (Atom is nicer, but RSS has more support than Atom 1.0)
fixed content-type for feeds
updated Atom feed so it now validates (see Feed Validator)

Sword 1.0beta2

2005-07-27T02:25:27+02:00

Pagination combined with page caching really isn’t that easy to do. I had to do all kinds of crazy stuff to make it work, but I got it done anyway. :) If you use these features seperately, Rails is really great and everything is easy, but as soon as you try to combine these features, it soon turns into utter chaos. It took me about two days, but I figured it out (well, I think I did). But anyway, I’ll blog about that in a later post.

So with this last issue resolved and having fixed some bugs, here it is: Sword 1.0beta2.

Sword 1.0beta1 sees the light

2005-07-25T16:14:51+02:00

Last night I added page caching for the public pages of Sword (this weblogging tool; see the Sword project page), only to discover today that I had a few typos in it. That’s what you get when you program in the middle of the night. So I fixed those and here it is. :)

I managed to transform my posts from the prototype I had running at TextDrive and import them into the Sword database. Since the prototype didn’t have slugs for posts, I had to do some manual work. But script/console that comes with Rails was a big help and I managed to add the slugs in about 2 minutes.

The beta version will now be tested in real life and the look and feel will be optimized before 1.0 will come out. This 1.0 version will be the version I deliver as the end-product of my internship at Fingertips.