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From: Matthew B. <mb...@ky...> - 2002-07-23 13:07:25
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Howdy!
Things are coming along quite nicely, and I thought I'd mention a few
things that are new:
- The website has been massively updated (well, I think so ;)
- FAQ is now up, mostly stolen from kopsisengineering.com's
FlashAdapter FAQ. We need more items.
- The Plugin page has been updated to work just a little bit better.
- Small changes throughout (fonts, people.) Comments requested.
- Much thinking has been going on about the software. The Plug-in
API has been worked upon. Nothing major, and nothing worth a new
semi-public release of pre3.
- The manual has been added to pre2 in HTML format, to make a few
people happy. Designed for iSilo, and it shows.
- The manual has also been uploaded to the website. Same condition.
- Tried to add a survey to the SF page, but don't have permissions. I
don't have permissions to do much on the site, come to think of it.
- I need help with this freaking scrollbar problem. Grab the latest
CVS, build it, and install it. Have a look at the "Release Notes"
dialog. If it doesn't pop-up automatically, it's available in the
Help menu. Scroll, and the problem should become evident quickly.
Have a day, all! (Or is it still just you and me, Dave? I don't have
permission to access the List Administration ;)
--
Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan mb...@ma...
Margin Software, NECTI. http://www.marginsoftware.com
Re-inventing the wheel, every time.
- Force has no place where there is need of skill.
-- Herodotus
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From: David J. K. <dke...@ko...> - 2002-07-23 16:05:30
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:08:58AM -0700, Matthew Bevan wrote: > - The website has been massively updated (well, I think so ;) On my brief walkthrough it looks good :) > - FAQ is now up, mostly stolen from kopsisengineering.com's > FlashAdapter FAQ. We need more items. We need people asking questions :) In my experience "premptive FAQing" doesn't usually work. If you *know* something is going to be a FAQ then it probably needs improvement. > - Much thinking has been going on about the software. The Plug-in > API has been worked upon. Nothing major, and nothing worth a new > semi-public release of pre3. One of these days I'll read through the plug-in stuff. However, I am curious why the FAFileMover plug-in architecture was abandoned? Nothing about it was incompatible with VFS - in fact I actually had a couple of unreleased VFS based FAFileMover plug-ins working. > - The manual has been added to pre2 in HTML format, to make a few > people happy. Designed for iSilo, and it shows. Still on my todo list. I'd like to eventually produce a nice typeset PDF manual like we have for the FlashAdapter software. > - Tried to add a survey to the SF page, but don't have permissions. I > don't have permissions to do much on the site, come to think of it. You have as much access as I can give you without making you the project admin. It seems to me that any developer should be able to add a survey but apparently SF disagrees. If you email what you want the survey to contain I'll be happy to set it up. However, SF's survey interface is just as bad as the rest of their website so we'd probably be better off to set up something custom using the website. There must be some good PHP scripts out there for doing polls. > - I need help with this freaking scrollbar problem. Grab the latest > CVS, build it, and install it. Have a look at the "Release Notes" > dialog. If it doesn't pop-up automatically, it's available in the > Help menu. Scroll, and the problem should become evident quickly. I'll take a look tomorrow. I just agreed to fill a last minute part-time faculty opening at a local technical college. My first class (Enterprise Development) starts today so I have to teach myself MS SQL Server admin in the next four hours :) -- Dave Kessler President - Kopsis, Inc. http://kopsisengineering.com |
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From: Matthew B. <mb...@ky...> - 2002-07-23 17:25:28
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> We need people asking questions :) In my experience "premptive FAQing" > doesn't usually work. If you *know* something is going to be a FAQ then it > probably needs improvement. Can't help but agree, though the data I, er, borrowed from your FAQ gave me a good quantity of example data while I worked on the display scripts. Still am, btw. I'm learning an awful lot about MySQL and PHP. > One of these days I'll read through the plug-in stuff. However, I am curious > why the FAFileMover plug-in architecture was abandoned? Nothing about it was > incompatible with VFS - in fact I actually had a couple of unreleased VFS > based FAFileMover plug-ins working. Once you see the new design I'm implementing, you'll know why. The old FAFileMover system was too, er, simple in my mind ;) Have a look at the header file (and/or the iSilo/HTML manual, Plugin API section ;) and all will become clear. > Still on my todo list. I'd like to eventually produce a nice typeset PDF > manual like we have for the FlashAdapter software. Would be nice. That's what the survey would be for. "What format would you like the manual to be distributed in?" a) Plain 'ol Text, b) RTF (Rich Text) c) iSilo d) Palm DOC e) PDF f) HTML I'll look into making a quiz system. EVERYTHING on the website is now my own custom PHP. The most "borrowed" code comes from the News scripts. You can tell why my "company's" tagline is "Re-inventing the wheel, every time." > You have as much access as I can give you without making you the project > admin. It seems to me that any developer should be able to add a survey but > apparently SF disagrees. If you email what you want the survey to contain > I'll be happy to set it up. However, SF's survey interface is just as bad as > the rest of their website so we'd probably be better off to set up something > custom using the website. There must be some good PHP scripts out there for > doing polls. There can only be one admin? That's daft. Another thing I'd like done to the SF page, is a Call to Developers. What we need are programmers. Lots of them. :D > I'll take a look tomorrow. I just agreed to fill a last minute part-time > faculty opening at a local technical college. My first class (Enterprise > Development) starts today so I have to teach myself MS SQL Server admin in > the next four hours :) Ouch. Good luck - you'll need it! -- Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan mb...@ma... Margin Software, NECTI. http://www.marginsoftware.com Re-inventing the wheel, every time. - Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance. |
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From: David J. K. <dke...@ko...> - 2002-07-23 18:08:20
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:27:01AM -0700, Matthew Bevan wrote: > Once you see the new design I'm implementing, you'll know why. The old > FAFileMover system was too, er, simple in my mind ;) Have a look at the > header file (and/or the iSilo/HTML manual, Plugin API section ;) and all > will become clear. My only concerns are that a) I have almost finished plug-ins that could have been easily ported if we maintained some backwords compatibility with the old architecture, and b) if plug-ins really start using an API this ambitious it could cause some significant performance problems. A bunch of analysis would be required to see if that's a valid concern or not. > Would be nice. That's what the survey would be for. "What format would > you like the manual to be distributed in?" I set that survey up. Try it out and you'll see why we need a better solution :) > There can only be one admin? No, but there "should" only be one admin. Too much chance of major catastrophies if there are multiple admins. As for the "call for developers" - for every developer we get there will probably be at least 100 curious users. That's why we need to keep FileCaddy in feature freeze for now and just work on bugs. Developers never want to fix bugs they want to add new features. Without a stable baseline to start with, that's a disaster waiting to happen. FYI - I posted to the MemPlug list today to let them know about FileCaddy (and take some of the wind out of PiTech's PiMoverII release) so be prepared for some bug reports :) |
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