Releasenotes
- Aug 24 2010 - blogquotes version b02.1 ...
New release of blogquotes is out, with the biggest change being a switch from exclusive reliance on google accounts for login to leveraging a cool service at http://www.janrain.com/ that gives me a simple way of integrating authentication from a bunch of different sources. So you no longer need to be a google user to use blogquotes!
Note that if you were previously using google to login this should just work albeit with a slightly different UI. And if you find other methods to be more preferable they should also “just work” provided that you use the same email address for those services. Note the logout button at the top of the page which will tell you what email or ID you’ve logged in with. So for example if I login with facebook all my old quotes are there, but if I login with blogger which doesn’t use the same email address I get nothing and am essentially starting fresh.
- enhancement : support for Facebook, Google, Windows Live ID (includes hotmail), Blogger, Wordpress and LiveJournal logins (have yet to validate Wordpress + LiveJournal)
- bugfix : javascript remote inclusion could still barf on some unicode, added clientside utf-8 handling
In the background I’ve also made a number of restructuring changes to the code which should help me release changes faster.
Please leave comments on this post if you are having trouble getting access or for some reason can’t see the quotes you’ve already entered. (no data has been deleted!) - Aug 9 2010 - Blogquotes version b01.2 ...
Didn’t expect to get more released this weekend or I would have combined these posts, but another quick release of blogquotes, the following are added :
- enhancement : quotes table is sortable by either “who” or “quote”
- enhancement : click to edit on any cell in the table for convenient fixes
- bugfix : missing robots.txt
In the background I’ve also added analytics to the header so I can get a sense of how much traffic the site is seeing.
The table features have both been things I’ve felt missing and which were remarkably easy to add since I’m just leveraging the Yahoo User Interface library YUI for major widgets like the table. Lots of low hanging fruit now that the guts are in place. - Aug 7 2010 - Blogquotes version b01.1 ...
A new version of blogquotes has been published this morning. Not a lot of new features, but at least the wheels are turning again and some annoying bugs have been addressed.
- bugfix: adding quotes with some types of punctuation caused page errors
- bugfix: unicode characters in quotes caused errors when pulling those quotes out for includes
- bugfix: hitting enter on the “who” input field caused a page error, now hitting enter is equivalent to clicking “Add”
- enhancement: updated to a new faster version of the YUI data table
- enhancement: moved quote entry form above the quote table to avoid scrolling down when adding to an already long list
- enhancement: adding a quote will blank out the form and put focus back to the quote textbox
- enhancement: more obvious navigation in left column for moving between managing and including quotes
- enhancement: minor cosmetic improvements (title bar, fonts, spacing etc)
- enhancement: new welcome page that includes more than the word “Login”
- degredation : banner ad now in right column (sorry… appengine ultimately is not free and I’m worried about potential rising costs)
Please comment on this post if you use blogquotes and want to see specific features.