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It's Here at last! CodeAngel.org is a project I have been working on, on and off, for almost a year! CodeAngel.org is my blog. The software behind this was written by me, and of course those who wrote the libraries behind it. The application base was written with the Zend Framework. I started writing this blog when Zend Framework was on 0.1.2 and at this time of writing is running on 0.8.0, I'll continue to update this blog based on Zend Framework perhaps perpetually.
The main reason I wrote my own blog software, instead of say use any of those 100s of other blog and content management software out there, is for two reasons. One reason is that I wanted a project to better understand MVC and how it applied to Web Development. The other reason why I reinvented the wheel, all the wheels out there didn't fit my car.
Codeangel 0.2
I am calling this release 0.2, It's mainly bug fixes and a few features additions I have been putting off. Changes can be summerized:
- Changed homegrown js to the jquery library
- fixed a bug with md5 files on the download page(thanks to David for pointing it out)
- Completely changed my article linking method, the old way was a failed experiment.
- Made warnings to check when my posts weren't valid XML.
- truncated lists of tags and archives in the sidebar.
plans for 0.3 include adding links for dig this, technorati, delicious and what not for the articles and replacing the code highlighting lib with GeSHi. In 0.5 I plan on refactoring the app to work with Zend Framework 1.0 and to include things like cacheing and logging. Also I hope to replace some of my home-grown components with Zend Framework's components.
Codeangel 0.3
Well this was a fast release! I promise 0.4 will be a lot longer wait, and probably the experience will inspire me to write more regular articles. Changes for 0.3 include:
- Added links for digg, furl, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, technorati, etc... on each article page.
- Changed code highlighting class from Pear Text::Highlight to GeSHi
- Refactored the models a little bit with better error reporting. Not completely the way I want them yet, mostly due to the limitations of the older Zend Framework I'm working on.
- Fixed various small bugs
0.4 well be a big change, upgrading to Zend Framework 1.0. Because of the large differences between 1.0 and 0.8, there will be alot of code refactored (for the better).
Codeangel 0.4
Codeangel is now running on version 0.4!
- Now Powered By Zend Framework 1.0.1!
- Improved Security Auditing and logging
- 404 and 500 error pages
- Cacheing, Front Page now twice as fast!
- Other Refactor using more features of Zend Framework, and code cleanup for faster execution.
Codeangel 0.5 the user will finally notice some feature updates, including linkback support, comment subscription, and a better searching experience.
Codeangel 0.5
Well it's been a long time since I've done an update. Mostly because my interests have drifted to video game making, AI, and guitars. I'll probably have posts soon relating to those. For now though I finally finished a bit update!
Codeangel 0.5 has the following new features:
- Trackback and Pingback support (both recieve and sending).
- Feeds are reimplemented, Also notice the syndication symbol under each article links to this comment feed
- Reimplementation of the Search Engine. Articles are searched with better granularity, Comments are now indexed as well. Also I made a Porter Stemmer so one should get more relevant full results. I'll post more about this Porter Stemmer and release it soon.
Probably won't notice much on my next planned release: Splitting my admin and the main part of the site into modules. Also going to make a better article manager. Then I'm going to add published/unpublished article support. After I get done with that I will implement Skin support and implement skins with Zend_Layout. The big thing you'll notice is a new look for codeangel.org!