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Also ...
... Seb Paquet's icon cracks me up every time. "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!" happy sigh Thank you. The technical director will now return to his hole.
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Statistics and procrastination
I love using the admin panel. There's a sense of satisfaction in knowing exactly how many users and communities you have on a system, finding out who's pottering about (although it won't tell me what you're doing, privacy fans), checking out how
Bugsquish
Inevitably for such a large release, there have been a number of bugs spotted. These are all very minor, but put together may affect your Elgg experience - therefore an improved Elgg v0.301 will leave the building before the end of the week.
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Elgg 0.3
Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your delectation and enjoyment: {{file:1459}} Elgg 0.3 final release This is still undergoing testing prior to a proper upload on Eduforge, but I'm uploading it in the hope that a few people will download it and give us their feedback.
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Application development in the rain
These rainy autumn (is it really autumn already?) days are really conducive to sitting down and doing some serious work - which is just as well, because I've had not a small amount to do. I've got these great overhead desk lights, and my room feels
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Logging onto RSS feeds
One of the problems with the RSS feeds is that, for security reasons, they only syndicate public objects. We'd love to change this, but an issue is how do you authenticate an RSS reader into Elgg? It won't remember a set of cookies, and I'
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Elgg 0.3
Dave and I have now been collaborating on Elgg for what seems like forever - unbelievably, it's only been around 18 months. However, the amount of work we've put into it, the thought and time, designs and redesigns, ideas and conversations have basically been our worlds
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Themes
I've thought about themes and will do my very best to convert from the old system to the new using an automated script at the point of switchover. It'll be a bit clunky, in the sense that the new elements probably won't completely visually
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Interface changes
Due to feedback from extensiveusability testing (both formal and the informal feedback we've received by running elgg.net since November), the Elgg interface is due to change massively. Dave already posted a sneak peek, and we've since got it working on our development site. Here'
Classcaster
Hmmm ... What's particularly interesting about this is the choice of plog as the blogging engine, as I have it on fairly good authority that it falls over with a high volume of hits. It'll be an interesting one to watch.
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Eduforge problems?
I've just successfully downloaded the 0.2 release from Eduforge, but a worryingly large number of people are reporting download problems. If you have had problems, could you please reply with: 1. Your rough geographical location (eg, I'm in southern England) 2. Your browser and operating
Thoughts on the next release
We've been playing with a rich-text editor for posting to weblogs etc lately, and although it more or less works, I'm not completely happy about its integration. It feels plunked-in rather than a contiguous part of the user interface, and that's something I'