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For the past six months Degrees of Zero has been a one man operation that started out with the lofty goal of bringing together programmers, artists, gamers, writers, and more in a joint effort to produce a full production computer game. Nearly everyone I talked to about my ideas looked at me like I was crazy. They were right. In the past six months I have learned so much, yet I feel I have merely scratched the surface. My goals and ideas have been remolded on a daily basis with each new concept I have learned. I am now ready to launch Degrees of Zero in a new direction, starting with the release of Blog Community 2.0.1 Beta.
- Degrees of Zero is not only a place to find the latest news and updates related to Blog Community. It is also a blogging community itself. Sign up for an account and start blogging in minutes!
- Find answers to your web design questions in our support boards.
- Share your ideas for new features or improvements on existing features.
- Participate in the development of new web-based software.
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| Written by Charles Hill on November 11, 2008, 11:35:14 AM |
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| I am nearing the completion of version 2.0.3 Beta of Blog Community, and I require your assistance. The latest version of the software is being run on my development site (http://dev.degreesofzero.com/index.php?bc). I invite you all to check it out. Play around with stuff and see if you can break it. There are 3 test accounts that you can use that all have almost all permissions enabled, and guests have the maximum permissions that guests are allowed. The test accounts are "test", "test2", "test3" and their passwords are all "test". Also any suggestions you may have are welcome and appreciated. Thank you. |
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| Written by Charles Hill on October 26, 2008, 06:34:23 AM |
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I have written about 4k new lines of code and have rewritten another 4k since the 22nd of October. I have completed the permissions system which I think you all will find to be very powerful, yet easy to use. I have been rewriting the overall structure of the software to improve continuity and efficiency. I would like to clean up the template a bit more in certain areas, but I'll most likely save that for last. I wrote a function that will import all of the blogs (and all articles, polls, comments, moderators, etc) from your SMF forum's database tables into the new Blog Community database tables.
What's next on my to-do list are the sub functions for posting/editing/deleting/locking/etc articles, comments, and polls. Luckily I have already written several useful functions that will make adding this functionality a lot easier. As long as I don't suffer any major set backs I should have BC 2.0.3 Beta ready soon. |
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| Written by Charles Hill on October 22, 2008, 08:22:55 PM |
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For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting version 2.0.3 Beta of Blog Community... I'm sorry. I have carefully weighed the Pros and Cons of making separate tables and have decided that I want them to be separate. I feel that now is the best time to do so, as 2.0.3 Beta is likely to be extraordinarily popular and I do not want to change a lot from here on out.
If you aren't aware of how things are done presently in Blog Community I'll try to explain a bit. Right now (version 2.0.2 Beta and earlier), Blog Community uses your SMF forum's boards, messages, topics, board_permissions, permissions, settings, polls, poll_choices tables. This has always caused some problems in that it is virtually impossible to totally separate blogs and their articles/posts from your forum's boards, messages, and topics. The reason this is so difficult is because there are just too many database queries that would have to be changed in order to completely separate blogs from boards. I have taken some time to figure out exactly how I want Blog Community to operate from a user's perspective and administrator's perspective and I think I've figured out what is necessary and what I can do without.
These massive changes means that Blog Community 2.0.3 Beta will not be ready for a little while longer. For that I am sorry, but I think you will be very pleased with the end results. These changes will ensure that BC installs very easily, runs smoothly and efficiently, and it will make BC very extensible well into the future. If you would like to make any suggestions please do not hesitate to do so. |
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| Written by Charles Hill on October 20, 2008, 07:37:54 PM |
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I would like to announce the launch of the bug tracking system for Degrees of Zero. It took me a few days to code, but it's done and working great. Guests can look through all the known bugs for various pieces of software and mods that I have developed, but only registered uses are allowed to report new bugs and post comments on current bugs. I will continue development of this system, but for now it suits the site's needs perfectly. If you have found what you think is a bug with a piece of software or modification that I have developed, please report it using the bug tracker.
I will now turn my attention to the store front. Once that is finished I will launch it as well. All guests and users will have access to the store front. The store front will double as a downloads system, so I'll be posting all software and modifications. All plug-ins and templates made specifically for Blog Community will be found in the store front.
Blog Community version 2.0.3 Beta will be available soon. I estimate that it will be about 5-7 days more. There are just a small handful of things left to add and test. Please feel free to post your suggestions for things you'd like to see added or changed.
Link to bug tracker:
http://degreesofzero.com/index.php?bt |
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