The reason I dropped by here was actually because I started playing with a redesign of the system, and perhaps more notably I am dreaming of some much needed improved code for the site. I have some ideas I will be trying to implement, however some of the changes I am thinking of would really benefit from a more or less complete overhaul of the system. Well… One can dream, if only I could find the time (and energy) to really get things done here.

Anyway, it would be really nice if some of you who actually downloaded inforMe to maybe leave me a comment on the blog. Are some of you using this for real, of are you just curious of what this is and/or recycling code?

This does not imply that the system is finished or that development will halt, but it is possible that atleast the next 3-4 weeks will be a more quiet period on this project as things are starting to pick up at work.

inforMe 0.5 Beta is  not exactly a bugfree system(unfortunatly), so if you discover something that’s really annnoying you, please report this bug as a comment to this post.

Personally I would recomend using Google Chrome as webbrowser on the infoboard/infoscreen, as this is by far the fastest webbrowser available today(press F11 for fullscreen). I am aware that there are several bugs affecting IE in the adminpanel in this release, so my recommandation here is to avoid using that browser(atleast with current version), most other browsers should be fine though(i.e. one of these: Firefox, Opera or Chrome).

Other features like change order/priority of slides, expiration date on slides, rewritten presentation engine(I have an idea) and other aesthetic improvements will have to wait until next version.

createslide.php in the admin folder is now capable of updating any slide in the db, and as soon as you press one of the two save buttons, the post is actually submitted to the db, and you can edit that too.

The (non-existant) roadmap for this project now points out the path to creating a overview page, where pretty much anything you can do with a slide is available, for instance delete slide, edit slide, change priority, etc.

The changelog on the project page is updated så head on over there and have a look at the new tweaks and features, or better yet download and try for yourself. Maybe it could soon be called a Beta project?

I can also mention the this is my last day at work for about a week, before I am back at it in week 28, and then again vacationing in week 29. This means, it could be awhile  until the next update of the system(and this blog). Since I only have two weeks vacation this summer,  it becomes even more important, to get the best out of it.

Have a fantastic summer

As you can read this is the first, and maybe last, blogpost also translated to English. If you for some reason want to see how this looks like in norwegian click the little norwegian flag on the top right

Thought I should also mention that the internal version numbering, of the inforMe project, are moving faster than the one I publish on this site. The internal version are now 0.4.7.6. Despite the rather small increase in mere numbers, some pretty important improvements have been made with this version.

For en uke(snart to) siden fant jeg et fantastisk script for å laste opp og skalere bilder, ved bruk av nesten bare asynkrone kall mot server(ajax).  Dette var et tredelt script(tre filer) og jeg sleit med å få alle scriptene til finne hverandre.

I går fant jeg imidlertid et mye enklere script som ikke bruker asynkrone kall i det hele tatt, noe som egentlig er like greit siden begge disse scriptene er avhengig av en iFrame og fullstendig synkrone kall likevel.

Jeg har i dag implententert dette nye scriptet inn i admin panelet og det fungerer ganske bra. Dette nye scriptet har også en fin innebygd funksjon med at det lager to versjoner av hvert bilde du laster opp et stort og et lite. Det er dette som kan vise seg å være en fordel for prosjektet, siden jeg kan bruke det lille bildet i forbindelse med admin panelet og i forbindelse med den planlagte ikke-autmatiserte visningsdelen.

Versjonsnummeringen har nå steget til 0.4.7.2 (ettersom det viste seg at versjon 4.8 blei et blindspor). Og følgende endringer er gjort fra versjon 0.4.5:

• Laget script for opplastning og skalering av bilder til adminpanelet
• Mulighet for arkivering av infosaker(aka. kladd og publiserte slider)
• Finpusset css stilsett både for visningsmotor og admin panel
• Lagt om til utf-8 karaktersett
• Fikset tinymce textarea feltet slik at det nå faktisk sender de dataene som ligger der