Galleon 2.013 Released
I just released Galleon version 2.013. This release has the following updates:
- I fixed an important bug involving user profiles. If encryption was turned on and a user saved their profile w/o changing their password, their old password was lost. It is critical you get this version if you encrypt your passwords.
- Two minor cross-site scripting issues fixed.
- Here is a nice one suggested by a user: The emails that get sent out for messages will now include #last in the URL. This means when you click, you see the latest messages.
- Few other small changes as well.
Galleon ColdFusion Forums update
I just released version 2.012 of Galleon. This update adds markitup support. This is a very cool editor that makes it easy to build support for different languages, including BBML which Galleon supports.
Now - I know I'm anti rich-text editor, but this one was so nice and slim, so elegant, that I couldn't say no to it. Plus, Todd Rafferty actually did all the coding, so all I had to do was look it over. He also nicely turned it into a config setting so folks could turn the feature off if they wanted.
Unfortunately, I don't have my personal forums updated to 2.x yet, but I'll see if I can get GTT's forums updated.
Quick BlueDragon/Galleon Tip
I was testing Galleon under BlueDragon 7.0.1 and ran into an odd issue. My queries were being returned with the aliases ignored. Ie, I'd do
select foo as goo
from zoo
And the result query would have a foo column, not goo.
Turns out this is a known issue with the MySQL connector, and Lori from NA posted a fix here.
Galleon update
Last night I released a minor update to Galleon, my forums product, and this morning I discovered a small bug with it so I have updated it again. This release(s) is a minor update, changing a few small items and fixing a bug with message deletion.
Minor update to Galleon
Yesterday I released a minor, but important update to Galleon. This update fixes IE support in the Admin, which was pretty badly broken. I had forgot about the IE "feature" where an image button will return form.name.x, not form.name. (Thanks IE!) A few other formatting issues were fixed as well. Thanks again to Full City Media for quickly responding and fixing the bugs. Please note that I haven't yet had a chance to fix the MS Access bug. I hope to get to that this week.
Oh and if the Saints lose this one I'm officially pretending I'm from Texas.
Update #3: Galleon 2
It's done. Galleon 2 - a major update of my forums package, is now released. You can download it from RIAForge: http://galleon.riaforge.org
This version includes the following new features:
- New logo by Murat Kgirgin.
- Totally new Admin design and a CSS-ified version of the front end. This will make replacing the front end easier (and a new theme is in the works). Credit goes to Chaz Jachimski and Emmet McGovern at full city media. They donated the design and thanks go to them. (Especially for all the times I asked Emmet if he was done yet.)
- Avatars. You can now upload an image for an avatar, or use your gravatar.
- You can now edit your settings in the Admin.
- BBML thanks to Depressed Press
- New security system. You can now make truly private conferences.
There is a minor bug in the admin involving the filter option for theme/message lists. Bug as in you can't use it. Also - the Access database hasn't been updated to the new table schema, but hey, who uses Access anyway?
I hope to have my own forums updated next week.
Galleon 2 ready for testing (Release Candidate)
Ok, I think I'm ready to release this baby, but I need a sanity check before I do so. Before downloading this release, please read the notes below. This is not intended for production, nor is it a good idea to apply this over existing Galleon Forums (I'll explain why in the notes). But if you want to give 2.0 a test drive, now is the time to do so.
So what does Galleon 2 have?
- New logo by Murat Kgirgin. Because I have the graphical skills of a drunk one handed mentally handicapped monkey, I made the poor guy do about 10 revs, so thank you Murat for dealing with me.
- New table system to handle stats. (See notes below.)
- Avatars. You can now upload an image for an avatar, or use your gravatar.
- You can now edit your settings in the Admin.
- BBML thanks to Depressed Press
- New security system. You can now make truly private conferences.
So now for the release notes. Read this carefully before downloading.
- The zip contains updated SQL scripts for MySQL and SQL Server. These are for new installs. The Access DB is not updated.
- There is no way to 'migrate' an old Galleon install, but that is what I'm working on next.
- When you set up security for a conference/forum, you want to explicitly set who has permission to edit. Right now it defaults to Everyone.
- In terms of Security, "Everyone" means any person, BUT, they must be logged in. So if a forum has Write access Everyone, it doesn't mean non-authenticated users can post. Basically - security begins after you are logged in. (Or should, if not, let me know.)
Please post bug reports here - but read the comments first so as to not duplicate.
Galleon 2 Update
Just a quick note to let folks know how Galleon 2 development is going. Today I wrapped up the security modifications. There were a few things I had forgot - like search and RSS. I also added a page in the admin that lets you edit the settings in the INI file. To do:
- Pick a logo.
- Write code to handle message/thread/forum deletes and updating stats (posts in conferences, last post, etc).
Right now my plan is to wrap it this week and have a version out for folks to test. I want to formally wrap it before MAX.
Calling want-to-be artists - Galleon Logo
Galleon 2 is rapidly approaching completion. This will be a major update and with this release I also want to add a new logo since - well - it isn't a proper web application without a shiny logo. I've gotten some darn good logos before, so if you are interested in creating the logo for Galleon 2, please post your samples here. (Obviously you have to give me the right to use it and since I'm cheap your only payment will be fame. :)
Galleon Update
I got the new update to Galleon up on RIAForge. I'm happy that's up after all the hullabaloo from last week. (Do you have any idea how long I've waited to use hullabaloo in a blog post??) Thanks to Rob Gonda for his help. This new addition has (along with changes to the back end to support an object factory) the following updates:
- You can now do quotes when replying to a post. It is a manual process, but it gets displayed nicely.
- I remove the special tags ([code] for example) from emails.
- A few fixes for BlueDragon compatibility.
- In the admin screens for users, threads, and messages, you can now enter a search term to filter the data. Very handy for trying to find a particular message or user.
As always - comments, suggestions, wishlist items are appreciated.