Bugfix : Sideblock Links Open In New Windows
Enhancement : Custom Date Formatting
Category Enhancement New Features
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You can now specify a custom date/time format in your blog translation document. This is useful if your blog server is based in a location where the regional setting are different from your home location ( Example : Server based in USA but home location is Ireland. ).
As the Date/Time format is part of the translation document you also have the ability to show the correct date/time format to your visitor based on their web browsers regional settings. So if you have a German translation document you can set the custom date format to DD.MM.YY so visitors from germany will see a date format that they are used to while visitors from the USA will see MM/DD/YYYY.
Enhancement : MetaWeblogAPI Multi-User and Location Update
Category None New Features
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The MetaWeblogAPI implementation has been expanded to take into account the User Profiles in BlogSphere. You can now specify a username and password in each User Profile document so when you log in via the API it will know who you are able be able to set the Entry Author name and default location correctly.
The API has also been customized to look for a 'Location' in the request XML. if it finds a location it will use it instead of the default location from the user profile. This feature has been added specifically for BBMetaBlog by Jason Hook.
Enhancement : MetaWebLog API Categories
Category Testing
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The MetaWebLogAPI has been updated to support categories. You can now post new entries and set their categories list correctly and they will be retained by the server.
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The MetaWebLogAPI has been updated to support categories. You can now post new entries and set their categories list correctly and they will be retained by the server.
BugFix : RSS Date Issue
Category RSS
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An issue with the way dates are converted to the correct format for RSS feeds has been discovered. To correct the issue all RSS dates are now converted to GMT and it is up to the RSS reader to do the correct conversion to the local timezone.
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An issue with the way dates are converted to the correct format for RSS feeds has been discovered. To correct the issue all RSS dates are now converted to GMT and it is up to the RSS reader to do the correct conversion to the local timezone.
BugFix : RSS Logging
Category Regression Bug
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RSS Logging had the wrong form set. It was using the Log_Referer form instead of the Log_RSS form. This has been corrected.
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RSS Logging had the wrong form set. It was using the Log_Referer form instead of the Log_RSS form. This has been corrected.
BlogSphere V3.01 Beta 7 Preview 1 ( Updated )
Category BlogSphere Beta Download
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A few people have been asking how the next beta of BlogSphere V3 is coming along so here is a preview version for anybody who is feeling brave. A few of the new features that you will find is an improved 'Document Library', A way to display attachments in Blog Entries, A new 'LightBox' for the photo albums that uses AJAX to display your photos in a cool web 2.0 style interface, Options for setting the sizes of thumbnails generated when you import your photos and lots of extra little fixes.
While there is no documentation or example docs in this build feel free to IM me if you need a hand setting up any of the new stuff.
Edit : The attachment has been updated to disable local access protection
Edit : Replaced the new lightbox with a better version
Edit : Removed protoType and Scriptaculous libraries and replaced with MooTools Library ( smaller )
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A few people have been asking how the next beta of BlogSphere V3 is coming along so here is a preview version for anybody who is feeling brave. A few of the new features that you will find is an improved 'Document Library', A way to display attachments in Blog Entries, A new 'LightBox' for the photo albums that uses AJAX to display your photos in a cool web 2.0 style interface, Options for setting the sizes of thumbnails generated when you import your photos and lots of extra little fixes.
While there is no documentation or example docs in this build feel free to IM me if you need a hand setting up any of the new stuff.
Edit : The attachment has been updated to disable local access protection
Edit : Replaced the new lightbox with a better version
Edit : Removed protoType and Scriptaculous libraries and replaced with MooTools Library ( smaller )
Calendar Sideblock
Category Enhancement
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It's taken a bit of extra time but the final part of 3.0.1 Beta 6 is now ready and is visible here in the sidebar of this blog. It's the all new calendar sideblock.
Blogsphere V1 & V2 also had a calendar sideblock but it worked very differently from the new version. In the old version a calendar document with the pregenerated html code was created everytime a blog entry was saved. This added extra time onto the end of the save routines and it could be noticed when you blog started getting lots of entries that it took longer and longer to process the calendar document.
In BlogSphere V3 I decided to rewrite the calendar sideblock and turn it into a dynamically generated sideblock that would be generated on the fly when a user visits your site. This adds some immediate benefits such as being able to translate the calendar headings into the language of the visiting browser and also being able to generate calendars for previous months.
Using the ProtoType Javascript library that is already used by BlogSphere for the Web Poll function I then decided that it would be better to make the calendar into an AJAX calendar so that the page can load and display to the user while the calendar is being generated by the server. This means I can also have forward and back buttons on the calendar to view other months without having to reload the entire page.
Check it out, I think you'll like it :-)
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It's taken a bit of extra time but the final part of 3.0.1 Beta 6 is now ready and is visible here in the sidebar of this blog. It's the all new calendar sideblock.
Blogsphere V1 & V2 also had a calendar sideblock but it worked very differently from the new version. In the old version a calendar document with the pregenerated html code was created everytime a blog entry was saved. This added extra time onto the end of the save routines and it could be noticed when you blog started getting lots of entries that it took longer and longer to process the calendar document.
In BlogSphere V3 I decided to rewrite the calendar sideblock and turn it into a dynamically generated sideblock that would be generated on the fly when a user visits your site. This adds some immediate benefits such as being able to translate the calendar headings into the language of the visiting browser and also being able to generate calendars for previous months.
Using the ProtoType Javascript library that is already used by BlogSphere for the Web Poll function I then decided that it would be better to make the calendar into an AJAX calendar so that the page can load and display to the user while the calendar is being generated by the server. This means I can also have forward and back buttons on the calendar to view other months without having to reload the entire page.
Check it out, I think you'll like it :-)
TimeShift your Blog
Category New Feature
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Does your blog server run in a different timezone then your in? If so then the new TimeShifting featue of BlogSphere is exactly what you have been waiting for. Available in 3.0.1.Beta4 this new feature will allow you to specify how many hours to timeshift your blog by so that your entries will appear with the correct time that match your timezone.
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Does your blog server run in a different timezone then your in? If so then the new TimeShifting featue of BlogSphere is exactly what you have been waiting for. Available in 3.0.1.Beta4 this new feature will allow you to specify how many hours to timeshift your blog by so that your entries will appear with the correct time that match your timezone.
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