Last night I finished re-working the comment admin module so that all future modules, and not just the gallery ones I'm working on, can use the same comment admin page. So now Ferret can go ahead and work her magic on the articles module and have it use the same comment system.

I'm going on holiday now - see you all in a week!

(Posted on April, 14th 2006, 09:41)
2 comments

I've just finished a module for sending feedback to moderators about the site. It can be used for suggestions, broken links, bug reports, abuse reports and for suggesting edits to otherwised fixed site content.

I'm in the process of sprinkling links to this module in context around the site - I've already put them on the links page for reporting broken link items, suggesting edits to link items and for reporting comments that break the rules. So obviously the game galleries will get the same treatment as well as the forum and anywhere else we can think of.

You can also access the module directly from the new "contact us" page (in the top section of the navigation menu).

(Posted on April, 9th 2006, 03:51)
14 comments

I've finally finished the module I was working on - the one for recording who's working on what website files. I know it sounds pointlessly time consuming, but it really was needed. We were mixing up file versions all over the place and re-introducing bugs we'd already fixed and stuff. But not any more!

It was interesting to write. I decided to explore the joys of the nested set model (link 1, link 2) for storing the file tree in the database. Its a cool way of doing things in terms of optimising your page queries, especially for things like obtaining a breadcrumb trail through your category tree (one query). But I'd say its main disadvantage compared to the adjacency list model is the way its so awkward to maintain its integrity and its easily corruptable if you start adding or removing table rows by hand.

Anyway. Onto the next job...

(Posted on March, 24th 2006, 22:44)
2 comments

I'm currently working on a quick module to stop me and Ferret and whoever else getting mixed up with different versions of the site code. It just keeps track of who's editting what and when things were last updated and so on. It should work if we remember to use it - heh.

(Posted on March, 1st 2006, 20:50)
1 comments

Its done. No more waiting for Java just because you have fat mouse-clicking fingers.

(Posted on February, 10th 2006, 00:54)
6 comments