Apple Suck

Michael Dale

I got my ipod today and it's the only thing I've found that doesn't work with Vista 64bit.

Why does it need a 32bit version of windows?! itunes runs fine :|

The error message isn't even right, iPhone?!

Notepad++

Michael Dale

I've been using Notepad++ for all my PHP coding within Windows. It's awesome.

Bluetrait 2 development update

Michael Dale

Just a quick development update.

The following is a list of the major changes that have happened since Code Example 1:

• Commenting Support


• Future Posting Support (via cron)


• Cron Support


• Basic Adding Post Support (with Categories)


• RSS Comments on Posts (with user detail support)


• Database Session Support (all sessions are stored in the database)


• Jquery


• SQLite database support now mostly works


• Contact Form (will be a default plugin) + Mailer Class


• Improvements to custom content

There are a couple of things that need doing before I can upgrade this site to Bluetrait 2:

• Spam Filtering


• Search


• Content Support (for my projects page etc)


• Admin Page (yes I haven't started on it yet!)


• Migration Script (to upgrade database)

The cron support is pretty cool and really easy to use. It will be used in future to handle update notifications, session garbage collection and "monthly database maintenance".

On another note this site is now accessible via IPv6 (2001:388:c021::20), which has already seen traffic!

 

ipod touch

Michael Dale

Looks awesome, my old ipod died a while ago, so I'm going to get myself one of these. Woo!

xtorrent

Michael Dale

The best RSS reader I've used so far is newsfire on the mac.

Just last night we tried xtorrent, a bittorrent program written by the same guy. It is definitely up to the standard of newsfire, great interface and the search works too!

Xtorrent 1.1 was just released so it might be a good time to buy.

Bluetrait Event Viewer

Michael Dale

Bluetrait Event Viewer has been updated to support WordPress 2.3

New Computer

Michael Dale

I purchased a new desktop computer the other day (first one since 2003). Unfortunately the video card has not come yet, so my vista "experience" score is interesting :)

The computer is an Intel 2.4GHz Quad Core with 4gb Ram and a 8800GTS (currently an X300se, heh).

Quick Post

Michael Dale

I want to have something like this in Bluetrait 2

Bluetrait 2 development update

Michael Dale

I've been doing a fair bit of Bluetrait 2 coding since my last post about it, so I thought I'd post an update of where I am up to.

Category support is now working. Which is awesome, because it includes full breadcrumb support:

I will expand this to include browsing through the full breadcrumb. This will improve navigation throughout the site.

Other features that I have been working on include:

• Full 404 handling support with custom styles


• Plugin support that can add custom content types


• Customizable peramlink formats


• Overriding site details with a settings file (i.e. domain name etc)


• Pluggable functions


• MySQL and SQLite support


• RSS support


• Templating Tags


• UTF-8 support


• Theme support


• Graceful error handling (i.e on database failure generate an email to the site admin)


• Event Logging

So there is a stack of stuff that has been done. I can't wait until enough has been done so that I can upgrade this site!

Subversion access can be found here (please note it isn't ready to be used on any website yet).

New Server

Michael Dale

Finally got a new server running. So I'm in the process of moving the websites over it to.

It should be faster too (it is an Athlon 64 3000+).