I made a few improvements to nnCMS, specifically user functions to see content and comments posted by specific users and major changes to the image gallery section.

I also put up 3 gallerys so go take a look at the image gallery.

Also I’m going to be working like an immigrant next month so I probably won’t have much time to program.

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I have been working from 7AM-1PM and doing level tests from 2PM-3PM and getting about 5-6 hours of sleep per night so I haven’t felt like programming very much. Also I asked my host to change the permissions on the directories for me so I am waiting for that to be completed so I can continue work on the Image Gallery section. I think I should go to bed now because I have a long day of schmoozing with students tomorrow. I have lunch with one class and then dinner with another.
Later…

For a while now I have had a Lian-Li PC-7 Aluminium case. It is a great case but the problem is that its black and my two 5.25″ drives are beige. So finally Lian-Li has release some cool new aluminium bezels for 5.25″ CD/DVD drives. You can see the Korean product page here. So I I just ordered 2 of them, hopefully they will arrive this week. In the meantime I am going to start redoing the ImageGallery as a part of nnCMS so I can put some photos up when they arrive. It should be a sweet and simple mod.

I saw Matrix Reloaded on Thursday night. Damn that movie was tight, I hope they will show it at the Imax here in Seoul. Then on Friday I went to Yongsan to pick up some CD-Rs and a CD book and while I was there I was looking at the bootleg DVDs. EVERY single bootleg vendor had The Matrix Reloaded Widescreen DVD on display. Of course this is nothing more then the CTP Telesync SVCD re-encode but still it was interesting to see. At least I finally found Taiyo Yuden 48x CD-Rs, they look really cool too!

Even though it is Saturday, I have to work today. Actually, I am talking part in an “excursion” where a few teachers get to go out with some students and we get paid for it. We had planned on going to see a baseball game, Lotte Vs. Doosan, but there is also an international festival in downtown Seoul this weekend so we might take part in that. Specifically, we may go see a bull fight, but not Spanish style. This is bull vs. bull.

Maybe I will get a chance to do some coding tomorrow.

Okay, things should be a lot smoother now! I think I have done a decent job of getting things to a much more workable level in just one afternoon. I don’t really feel like writing release notes, it doesn’t really matter until I make the software public so what you see is what you get.

Peace!

I also plan to add a recent replies control and a recent logins control. I also need to make the CSS better as it is not displaying properly on our PCs at work. I need to fix the footer of the message table so that it is only 2 lines and not the 2 or 3 it is now. Plus, this message box is too small when the CSS is not working properly. I guess I should install Opera to do some more testing but for now I will focus on functionality first. Well now it seems like my CSS is okay except for this multiline input box. The other monitor in the teacher’s room is funked. I really need to stop showing the comments in reverse order. What was I thinking???

Finally! After 2 weeks of steady coding I made enough progress, even though there are a few bumps in the app still. It is a beta after all.

Beta 2 Release Notes

• UserLink Option is not working on older versions of .NET
• You cannot see your comment directly after posting it, you must refresh the page and if you refresh the page then the comment is posted again.
• You cannot have spaces in your name at this time. I hate regular expressions!
• probably some other things I can’t think of at the moment.

To-do List

• Preview message before post.
• Introduce forum, non-reply submit message.
• Write RSS feeds.
• Write an AvantGo Page
• Try to “Stay logged in” function
• Fix known issues
• Freeze hell over

I have a lot of pictures to post but I am almost out of space on my web host and I’m going to be making the Picture Gallery integrated into nnCMS so it will take some time to get them up.

Well I guess I will put Beta 2 of nnCMS into production (hahaha) on the weekend whether I think it is ready or not. I’ve been working a lot on it and it is a MAJOR improvement from Beta 1 unlike my previous releases. Today I started writing a to-do list so I can plan for the future. One thing I am really worried about is my data structure. I don’t have any experience in making a data structure for such a dynamic and long-term product so I want to have everything perfect before I release 1.0 Final.
I got the content hit counter working today after a lot of problems. I realized that I had a memory leak somewhere after I updated the hit 20 times the aspnet user would use over 50mb of RAM and the app wouldn’t talk to the DB any more. I found out that I forgot to close about 6 DB connections when I was checking for valid content ID and users. Stupid me.
Anyway I got to get to bed. Peace!

We went to the sports center today and got our golf memberships. It was a little expensive but WELL worth it. The facilities are surperb and very clean. Plus, there is a coed sauna and private, although smaller saunas. The bathroom is amazing; more showers than necessary, a cold tub, a hot tub, and a whirl pool. So today I hit balls for about an hour with my new clubs, which I like very much. and then I spent about 30-45 minutes in the sauna. I’m going again tomorrow and I think I will spend more time in the sauna.


I worked on nnCMS for an hour or so tonight also. I simplified the time display on the messages and fixed some data validation issues. I was going to get the delete message control working but I got sidetracked…


Hopefully I will have a new beta up in a day or two, I want to make sure that it is functional first.