Sword

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. ;)

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.

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.