Archive for July, 2008

Awesome Searching

I’m going to attempt to keep this blog up-to-date, even if I only publish changelists. Unfortunately, I don’t do the banners. That’s Reid’s thing.

If you notice, the forum now has much awesome searching. Much love to Sphinx, our search engine, and Chronic, the natural language date parser. Since a search query isn’t required, you can easily look at all of reidman’s posts in the past week. I’m not 100% happy with the search interface. I can’t decide if I want to have a complicated search page like normal a forum that has a heavy page weight, a variable attribute selector like on Leopard’s Finder search or Mail.app’s Mail Rule’s screen, or having a Google style single bar that pro-users can type what meta-data to search by.

I still have a huge laundry list of big ticket items before I start work on the main site or do minor forum bugs: (View them after the jump.) Continue reading ‘Awesome Searching’

Whew, it’s been a few long months.

And you guys thought this blog would never get updated…

Well to recap what’s happened since April(!), we launched the new forum without too terribly much of a hitch. There’s been a few hiccups along the way, things not working after caching issues, Passenger issues (which, thankfully, have been fixed with the later versions), Textile issues, logins ’sticking’ instead of forcing people to logout, and login issues with the main site. While my list shrinks, there’s still more to do!

After the jump, I explain the upcoming future for the main site.

Continue reading ‘Whew, it’s been a few long months.’