Articles Tagged with “Demiblog-release”

29/07/2007: demiblog 0.2.2 Released

I don’t normally announce point-releases of demiblog, but I felt that demiblog 0.2.2 was worth an announcement because:

• It’s the first version of demiblog to be released under version 3 of the GNU General Public Licence.
• It has a few more (albeit fairly week) anti-spam features.
• Better metadata is now provided on HTML pages.

It’s available in the subversion repository.

28/06/2007: demiblog 0.2.0 Released

demiblog 0.2.0 is now ready for public consumption. Although I do use it on my own website, I still wouldn’t recommend it for use on live, production sites. It’s good for playing with though.

The big new feature is support for MySQL 5 as a backend database — worry ye not, as PostgreSQL is still supported (and recommended)! Also new is official support for Mac OS X as a server platform — I recommend using MAMP for a fully integrated Mac server solution. It still supports Linux of course, which will continue to be the primary target platform. (Windows support is planned too.)

Moving on to the front end, photos and photoblogging are now partly supported. It is possible to designate particular tags as “galleries”. When these tags are viewed, a thumbnail will be displayed for each article instead of a summary. There is also preliminary support for calendars. Again, a calendar is just a special form of tag. Each event is a special type of article. Thus an event can exist in multiple…

01/05/2007: demiblog 0.1.0 Released!

I’ve been working on it all evening, putting on the finishing touches, and finally demiblog 0.1.0 is ready for the world. I wouldn’t recommend it for use on live, production sites at the moment (although I have been using it here for nearly 4 weeks).

Features:

• Supported backend databases: PostgreSQL 8.x. (PostgreSQL 7.x may also work, but has not been tested.)
• Content may be published in HTML 4, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 or HTML 1.1, with experimental support for ISO HTML, HTML 5 and XHTML 2.
• Normal pages of content (Articles).
• Blog entries (BlogArticles).
• Yearly, monthly and daily archives of BlogArticles.
• Categorisation (Tags) of Articles and BlogArticles.
• Visitor comments (Comments) on Articles and BlogArticles.
• User signups visitors can sign up to the website for various extra features. (Though these extra features dont exist yet!)
• Feeds provided in RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0 (RDF), RSS 2.0, Atom, iCalendar, hCalendar (HTML), Text (CSV), JSON and PHP Serialised Object formats.
• Feeds of…