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Upgrade Step 1 Complete

27 January 2007 - 12:07 .

The first stage of this is done, and so far I'm pretty happy with the results. I may or may not end up changing the stylesheet I use. We'll see how I feel tomorrow. And if you come across any bugs or anomalies, please let me know.

New features in the latest version include the ability for users to self-register, so that their info gets rememberd differently (seems a waste to me, still trying to figure out how to turn the feature off); a better java hash to protect email addresses, and improved comment spam detection that lets me enable the feature only for entries over n days old

For those of you who bog, or techy types who might care, this site is driven by a program called Pivot.

It's a full-featured blog engine that's released under a Creative Commons license. The software works without any database whatsoever, which (I think) makes it a bit lighter and a wee bit faster, at least until I reach the 1000 entry mark or so. Upgrades consist of taking a backup of the files, then uploading all the new ones, by overwriting the extisting files. Then I run through a couple config pages and Bob's your uncle.

It's pretty cool software actually, and the support for it on their forum is very active. It's very themeable, and the various stylesheets are all fairly easily customizable too. There's also a number of extensions available (they they call 'snippets) that can be used to extend the functionality of the program, or to introduce new features. I'm going to try to incorporate some of them as well over the neext little while too.

In the meantime, enjoy, and thanks for reading

Posted by Jer on 27 January 2007 - 17:06

I hope so too... it's been getting atrocious these past few days