pLog informal status update

23/05/2005 01:10 | Categories: LifeType | 1 Comments 

Not much has happened in the pLog world recently, since I haven't had much time to work on it. I'm still confident we'll get rid of the 1.0.1 version sometime next week because I am already tired of it... only a few small issues here and there to fix.

But what I did have time to implement is the native support for RSS 2.0 enclosures. I had been meaning to do it for a while but it never seemed the right time so here it is I am sure that people who are into podcasting and vlogging will appreciate this feature. Only by upgrading to 1.0.1, will users get access automatically to this feature even though it won't work for old posts (it will only work with new posts whose links to resources were added via the "add resource" pop-up window) There is an example in our pLog development blog (look at the first "item" tag)

I've also started to use the new moblog plugin very heavily, as you might have noticed because of the amount of images in this page There seems to be however, something wrong with the thumbnail generation process. Images taken at a resolution of 640x480 pixels are too big for this layout, so I configured plog to generate medium-sized thumbnails of 500x375 pixels but it's actually ignoring those settings. I need to look into that but it won't probably be fixed before 1.0.2.

Speaking of 1.0.2 (and 1.1 too), things are going to heavily slow down in the plog camp in a few weeks time. We recently bought our new house and we're going to move in in the end of June. This means that we'll need all the time we can get to clean, paint and buy furniture that we can get so unless somebody steps forward and takes the leading role, we won't see a 1.1 release until probably late autumn or even early winter. 1.1 isn't going to represent a huge breakthrough as 1.0 did but it still has some nice improvements which will make hopefully make everybody happy (this includes Ben's work on implementing a disk-based cache system that speeds things up a *lot*)

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