Software Updates, Settings, Slugs

September 1st, 2005

This software is currently at version 0.4.3, and I hope to make a technology preview available soon. Through the Settings page you can now change your password, public name and public profile.

The aim of the user interface is to try and keep everything as simple and easy to use as possible. For this reason, I’ve tried to reduce the amount of unnecessary text and modified the “user links” in the top right of the page into Gmail-inspired format. I’ve added more blue into the colour scheme (footer is now blue rather than green, links are blue) and I’m currently deciding whether to ditch the green in favour of blue or whether to keep the current green/blue/gray mix.

Single Login

We’re currently working on integrating the login of this script with Evolution 5 and adding e-mail confirmation. This should be a good test of the authentication/user system. No doubt I’ll have to make various modifications to ensure other scripts can easily use our auth system.

Slugs

Weblogs originally didn’t have titles - they were simple, short, dated entries. A bit like Scripting News, a weblog which is about everything apart from scripting. As blogs evolved, title fields were added and some blog systems mandate them. This blog system requires a title. Many weblogs don’t give much prominance to the date.

I based the slugs in this weblog system on those I saw at the PHP Security Blog. They’re simply in the format of EntryID-Entry-Title. The date in the URL isn’t a particularly useful piece of information and using the Year-Month-Day-Entry-Title format used by many other scripts has it’s problems - collisions, etc.

On towards the BB

The original aim of this project was to write a bulletin board. Over time, the aims mutated and I ended up creating a community framework and now a blogging system. I do hope to return to the original aim of creating a bulletin board and to “make the bulletin board suck a bit less” although there are some other promising projects around so it might not be necessary :)

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2 Responses to “Software Updates, Settings, Slugs”

  1. # Blog Readeron 06 Sep 2005 at 12:21 am

    I intend to create a widget for the Konfabulator which will check Evo 5 for news and messages, saving the user from having to leave a browser on all day.
    My intension is to simply parse the toolbarrpc.xml page every so often.
    Unfortunately the only reference I have is the java script from the evo toolbar, which really doesn’t cut it.
    I was hoping I could just stick a user name and password in the url but obviousley not!
    I’m not getting anywhere with the httprequest i’m trying to modify from the toolbar code…
    Any hints?

  2. # Khloon 06 Sep 2005 at 5:29 pm

    Hi,

    Thanks for letting me know - if you could send me a message on Evolution that’d be great and we can discuss this further. You will need to send various cookies with your request - if this is not possible we can adapt some of the server side code to make it easy to use with the widget.

    My co-ordinates are 2,7,4:a.

    Cow

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