Dev Log

User Spam

Nick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:14:00 GMT

Well, just incase you haven't seen, nbdev was hit by some user spam, which has taken me ages to fix. Wrote a SQL script to delete everyone who joined in 2009 (figure it's the safest way). Sorry if you were a user created during 2009, but I can't have spam on my site.

I had over 4500 @gmail.com users that were all SPAM

For hence forth, registration is DISABLED!

If you need a user, contact me and I'll consider it

CS Media Manager 1.4

Nick — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:43:20 GMT

Hi all, it’s been a while, but I’ve been busy. Anyhow, I’ve spent today updating CS Media Manager to version 1.4. It drops using Aero where the menu bar is, instead it’s now using Windows 7’s toolbar, sidebar and footer.

This version works with Community Server 2008. Not CS 2008.5! I’ll try and make another release for CS 2008.5 soon, as hopefully, it won’t be too hard to upgrade.

And for those of you using TC5, you poor old fools. Telligent Community is CRAP. It may look like, but you can’t get a free version that does anything, developing anything for it is limited to GADGETS. So sorry but I've given up.

Here’s a screenshot:

If you installed CS Media Manager via the OnceClick page, you ‘should’ be automatically updated to 1.4. If not, you can download it from http://www.nbdev.co.uk/Products/CS-Media-Manager.aspx

Entanet Status Checker Vista Gadget version 1.0.0.3

Nick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:51:17 GMT

The new version includes MD5 hashed password, non focusing during update and a nice little speedo with the current interconnect usage level.

Download the update from http://www.nbdev.co.uk/media/p/3834.aspx

Entanet Usage Gadget

Nick — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:42:04 GMT

Got asked to make this, so here goes

Enjoy, you can download from

http://www.nbdev.co.uk/media/p/3836.aspx

Entanet Status Vista Gadget

Nick — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:06:00 GMT

Ok, I got a bit bored today and made this, my first vista gadget. It’s only really for people on enta net’s ADSL network here in the UK. It utilizes enta net’s RSS feed to get your ADSL information

Here’s mine

Hopefully I can find some more enta net feeds to expand on what it does, but for now, I think that will do as a version 1.0.

You can download it from http://www.nbdev.co.uk/media/p/3834.aspx

Enjoy.

Employment Looms

Nick — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:39:06 GMT

As full time employment looms I’m starting to reject clients, if you have a really simple job that needs doing, like theming a CS install to look like your site, or working off a PSD, then I’ll still take on work for this, as I can even work on this over weekends outside of work.

But as for the big stuff, the last clients for this are LiveSide and Reperion. If any other clients have gotten in touch with with, sorry, but if I start work, I won’t be able to work on side projects.

Cross Post on techie nick, and dev log.

Presenting Athena 2008 Beta 1

Nick — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:19:56 GMT

I’m proud to announce that as of 10pm BST (GMT+1) on 1st August 2008 Athena 2008 Beta 1 is officially available for download.

WARNING: THIS IS A BETA PEICE OF SOFTWARE!

Words of warning:

This release is a beta product and has bugs
The user cannot save the customisation changes that he/she has made
Transparencies do not work
Header background images are all that are allowed now
Form background image (main base background image) is a gradient effect in this release, and is configurable.
No CSLive controls are installed, although you can add CSLive 1.0 Controls after installation

Download either the Web or Windows Installers, and extract them into your community server installation. Once done you should see the athena 2008 theme in your control panel.

Included in this package is 1 header image, released at the same time as Athena 2008 will be Athena 2008 Header Image Pack 1. This package will contain a set of images that need to be uploaded into a gallery in community server. Once this has been done set the relevant settings in the site theme settings under the Athena Tab. Note that you can tag these images for better filtering of a gallery.

To Download Athena 2008 Beta 1:

browse to http://www.nbdev.co.uk/media/g/athena/tags/Athena+2008/default.aspx
Download 1 of the 2 installer files

(Optional) Download the Header Image Pack

Athena 2008 is Coming

Nick — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:23:00 GMT

Athena 2008 Beta 1 is almost here. Just a few hours away from it’s public release.

Words of warning:

This release is a beta product and has bugs
The user cannot save the customisation changes that he/she has made
Transparencies do not work
Header background images are all that are allowed now
Form background image (main base background image) is a gradient effect in this release, and is configurable.
No CSLive controls are installed, although you can add CSLive 1.0 Controls after installation

The main point is this a BETA 1 release.

It will appear later tonight on nb development.

If you spot any major bugs outside of the Athena bar, please let me know.

CSLive 2.0: Virtual Earth in your Profile

Nick — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:25:37 GMT

Today, apart from applying to a few places for a job, I’ve been working on the Virtual Earth Control for CSLive 2.0.

Now this control, although 1 physical control, it will do mostly anything

These will hopefully include:

Your Location Map (Picks up on the current user’s location and displays a map accordingly). This is the version I’ve been working on today
My Friends Map. In the user’s profile, the user will have a tabbed sidebar box, one with a friends List, and one with a Friends Map.
The friends map will act much like the current User Location Map, but will show all of your friends.
Controls that can be placed anywhere in CS.
These controls will mainly just be a wrapper for the Virtual Earth control. It will eventually have children controls that can be added, these children controls will be <CSLive:MapPushPin /> controls and <CSLive:MapZone /> controls. You will supply coordinates to the VE control, and it will render it.
Post Viewers. Much like the File Viewers, the Map Viewers will be placed inside Posts, and will use the syntax [CSLive:Map Long=”xxx” Lat=”xxx” SearchFor=”xxx” ZoomLevel=”1-19” Collection=”xxx” Width=”xxx” Height=”xxx” Controls=”Full|Tiny|None”]
A limited version of the full mapping control.

So big things from this tiny little control, which we hope to release for RC1.

For more info visit http://communityserverlive.com

CS Media Manager now Supports full gallery download

Nick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:41:28 GMT

CS media manager 1.2.0.0 now can get all of the stuff in a gallery, yes all of the posts. Now I’ve had to hack this a little to get it to work, ie stick a for loop in, but the end result is the same

Hehe, that’s 228 images loading, on a tag none the less.

Tags load up 2 images at a time, we as a gallery will load in 20 at a time, or what ever CS has defined as the default post list page size.

I might need to add a stop button on the loading of a big selection, tho I’m not quite sure how to do that, lol. Anyhow, it’s all good, shame CS don’t support the full loading of the gallery.

1.2.0.0 is now available via OneClick or the download page.

Note that for this to work your site needs to be running CS 2008 SP1

Busy Time for Me

Nick — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:59:59 GMT

Well it’s all hands to the pumps this month, I’ve started soo many free projects that I’m hopefully gonna get done soon. Then a load of paid theming work, so you’ll have to excuse me for not getting athena done.

Just an FYI.

Themes I’ll be doing:

Reperion
Bink (already done, just waiting on developer to finish converting the html template to a cs theme)
Extended64
Liveside.net

Free projects:

CSLive 2.0 (beta 1 expected end of the week)
Athena 2008
AddThis controls (released today)

Other Projects:

Help mum around the house
be taxi driver for brother
look for a job
maintain home network

so a lot of work on at the moment.

nb development gets updated to CS 2008 SP1

Nick — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:53:53 GMT

Just finished updating nb development to CS 2008 SP1. Took me about 2 hours to figure out why the site wasn’t working after the initial upgrade. Lol. Note to self, remember to run the upgrade SQL Script. lol.

Anyhow, you may of noticed in the new look athena theme, complete with header images, which change both randomly, and with your mouse movements. Click on the << paint pot to get the athena bar and then look at the header images.

The script that generates them takes a image and adds the gradient effects to the sides, so you’ll be able to use the new image packs that will be shipping with Athena 2008 for header images.

CSLive 2.0 – The Control Panel

Nick — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:33:01 GMT

Just a little blog about the new control panel, there will be a webcast on this later tonight, so keep an eye out.

Nice and simple, so far.

CS Media Manager 1.1.0.2

Nick — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:03:43 GMT

Just released on www.nbdev.co.uk/Products/CS-Media-Manager.aspx is version 1.1.0.2.

Screenshots

The change log from version 1.0.0.5 is:

Changes in Media Manager 1.1.0.0:

Added Multiple Site Support
Improved the Shell Interface to use a treeview for gallery selection
Moved to Registry entries
More Threading
Image Icons show while the image is being loaded
Reload and Browse context options added to the site level

Changes in Media Manager 1.1.0.1:

Image Quality now fully works
Added Copy context menu's to Item Property dialog URLs
Coded the change button
- NOTE: the change button uploads a new attachment to the post attachment of the media item, however something isn't quite working in the API and the contents are not being updated. However I would like some confirmation on this, so if someone is brave enuf to set that registry value, I'll be very grateful.
- The button can be creating a REG_DWORD named "enableediting" with "1" as the value in
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\nb development\CS Media Manager\
Directory Upload will only resize images that are bigger than the specified sizes

Changes in Media Manager 1.1.0.2:

File Attachment Box actually closes after click "OK" if you've used the image editor (Problem Deleting the temp file)

Fixed in 1.1.0.2

Known bugs:

Change Button doesn't work in some cases
The images can timeout while loading, and require hitting the retry button on the popup message

Features to be added:

Gallery Properties
Group Refresh and Browse context Menu
More Effects
- Grayscaling
- etc...
More options on the Item Context Menu
any recommendations...

If you can think of anything I've missed contact me using www.nbdev.co.uk/learn-more/contact.aspx

CS Media Manager

Nick — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:17:00 GMT

Just a quick post about the new CS Media Manager that I've been developing over the past month.

View it at http://www.nbdev.co.uk/products/cs-media-manager.aspx

and watch the webcast on the 1st version at http://www.nbdev.co.uk/blogs/webcasts/archive/2008/04/12/cs-media-manager.aspx

A updated webcast will be uploaded tomorrow.

In version 1.0.0.6 (as found on the OneClick Page), most of the program is complete, with just a few little outstanding issues, which I'm hoping to mostly resolve next week. Mind some of the problems are REST API related, and can't be fixed.

For more information, visit Re: Anybody developing a Windows application to manage media? on CS.com

Some screenshots: