3.0: It’s a Party, You’re Invited!
I was going to start going full-throttle on 3.0 last weekend, but a failed hard drive had different plans for me. This weekend, though, I have a brand-new drive, and I’m ready to go. If you want me to code more and sleep less, come cheer me in #in-series on freenode as part of the In Series coding marathon!
Right now, I’m at phase one: gut the code, clean up the API documentation, and organize the remaining stubs. Overall, I’m planning to do things in roughly this order:
Get the legacy stuff tidied up and well-documentedStub and document the new API (only the functionality to replace the existing functions)Basic stuff (tags without any params that output HTML)Advanced stuff (fully-configurable calls that return fairly raw data)
Implement the new database table structureImplement the new config data/optionsImplement the upgrade pathFor the series metadataFor the configuration info
(Re-)implement the old APIs in terms of the new APIsImplement the new APIs(Re-)implement the GUI- Cut 3.0
This should bring us back to where we are with 2.2.2 — but with the added benefit of working for users who are stuck with MySQL 4.0. I’d like to pull this off in one weekend, but it will probably wind up taking me two.
For the marathon: the more cheering I hear, the less I’ll sleep, and the more I’ll work. I’ll ping the room every 15 minutes, and for each person I hear cheer in response, I’ll go another minute, up to a maximum of 36 straight, solid hours of coding. If the clock runs out, the marathon is over, and I get to do as little or as much more coding as I feel like. The marathon starts at 08:00 PDT on Saturday (that’s -07:00 GMT), and will run through 16:00 PDT on Sunday. I’ll give out two free hours to get people a chance to come join in. All it takes is 15 live people at all times to get me to stay up a whole day and a half. Don’t miss out!
After the base rewrite is complete, I have a whole slew of new features I want to get started on:
ToCs in multi-post viewsToCs at both the top and bottom of posts- ToCs in the sidebar
Arbitrary post-reordering within a series- Series with posts from more than one author
- Posts in more than one series
- Series tagging with <!–Series:Series Name–>
If anyone has more feature requests, get them in!
28 Responses to “3.0: It’s a Party, You’re Invited!”
Posted: Mar 21st, 2007 at 23:03
[…] Original post by Quandary […]
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2007 at 02:56
Now that sounds like fun. While you’re having that fun, I’m actually working on getting my webhost to upgrade my account and move me to a server with a higher version of MySQL (it turns out that I’ll need subqueries for something I’m trying out on my own, so the move is necessary anyway). We’ll see which one comes first!
By the way, I just wanted to say that you’ve been awesome with your support and lots of people who have been reading my India travel “journal” have mentioned the nice added feature that InSeries provided on my site.
Also, I really don’t know much about getting with IRC, but maybe this will motivate me to see what its all about. Any client in particular that you recommend?
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2007 at 07:49
I personally use XChat on Linux; if you use Windows, you might want to check out mIRC instead. Also, adventurous Firefox users can chat right from their browser using ChatZilla (which, by coincidence, is a featured extension today). Gaim and Trillian users can connect to IRC networks directly from those clients. Finally, there are Java and CGI-based web-clients available for IRC.
There’s tons of information on IRC.
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2007 at 09:55
Well, here’s an early cheer for you and your obvious dedication to this project. I’ll be there if I can but child care issues may intervene for me. I just dropped some possibly useful info on reordering in the previous thread before I noticed this one.
If I’m not there in person, I’ll be there in spirit.
-X
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2007 at 10:43
Does it count if I start cheering Now? Yeah!!! Go for it!!!
I’m doing a stupid little thing like trying to get a transparent background for my new logo. Sounds easy, but I have no idea how or in what program it was created.
Oh, well, Yea for You!!!
Joe
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2007 at 10:45
Oh, BTW, have you considered putting a Subscribe to Comments option here?
I’d like to follow the progress of this to-do. :-)
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2007 at 12:25
@Joe
See just above the first comment for the feed url.
-X
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2007 at 14:19
Thanks Xathros,
I didn’t notice it was there.
Joe
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2007 at 22:16
This is sooooo awesome. I can’t wait for the results.
I’ll do my best to do some handholding, but my cheers should be making their way around the planet to you any second. WWWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHOOOO! Go Go Go! Sisboom BHA!
Thanks for taking this on. You are amazing!
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2007 at 23:05
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Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 05:28
GO GO GO It’s your birthday. It’s your birthday.
Just a little support. I’m very interested in the Series plugin.
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 07:02
It starts! (Two and a half minutes late…)
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 10:49
Crap. I just realized that you won’t be posting updates to your blog for us to cheer on through the weekend. Only IRC Chat. I’m on a very restrictive bandwidth access point right now (satellite) so online chat is out right now.
Still, I’m cheering, loudly!
My neighbor came over to find out what game I was watching on television. Since I don’t have a television, I won’t tell you what her response was to that discovery about her new neighbor. You are not helping me here. ;-)
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 10:53
Oh, I so am. See? The first item is
deleted!Try not to keep the neighborhood up too late; we’ll both get in trouble… ;)
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 14:25
Go Go Go (the wacko screams in spite of scaring her neighbors who are peeking out through the curtains at the lunatic next door).
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 16:34
Hi, I’m not a techie, but I use this plug-in. I absolutely love it! Nevertheless, after I downloaded 2.2.2., I’m still having a problem with the entries in my series not appearing until after I click on it once to go to another entry in the series. Then all the articles in the series will appear. I don’t know enough yet to go into my databases, php, etc. to try to figure it out. It seems you’re still working on it. But I’m excited anyway and will continue using the plugin regardless. I love it! It’s fantastic! You go!
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 16:41
@KWiz
Oh, don’t worry. You’ll get a whole wide range of new and interesting bugs once I’m done with the rewrite. ;)
@Lorelle
That’s the the table creation down; on to the upgrade path… (I partially skipped the new API; a lot of it’s done, but it’s not “finished.”)
Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 at 22:17
So, I’ve made a good hunk of progress — but, sadly, not enough folks turned up to get me to go 36 straight hours. So, I’m going to take a little 8-hour nap, and I’ll see if I can’t do somewhere close to 24 hours of coding over the course of the weekend. That’s still over half a work-week, and I’m probably better off rested anyway. ;)
G’night, folks!
Posted: Mar 25th, 2007 at 10:38
*brings you some virtual coffee*
Posted: Mar 25th, 2007 at 11:01
q
What would you like to drink (c?)? ?
c - A brown potion
What would you like to drink (c?)? c
Welcome to experience level 4.
You feel wide awake!
Posted: Mar 27th, 2007 at 01:17
How did the party turn out? I personally had a good time even though I had to leave early (and often)….
Posted: Mar 27th, 2007 at 06:37
@Ananda
A greater-than-zero number of folks came into the room and chatted, and I got work done. So, all in all, I’d say there’s room for improvement, but things turned out all right anyway.
Thanks to you, and everyone else, who dropped by! :)
Posted: Mar 28th, 2007 at 13:49
I’m glad that you were able to concentrate in spite of all your visiting fans. ;-)
You are a star for taking this on. BTW, the announcement of your efforts drove that post’s stats through the roof, so hopefully some of it rubbed off in your direction! Thanks for the pain and suffering for the benefit of all of us.
Posted: Mar 30th, 2007 at 16:33
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Posted: Apr 5th, 2007 at 21:27
I found this plugin only shows Previous link text in the RSS feed, but not shows toc even I enable Insert ToC option.
And do you consider add ability to handle RSS like this plugin ?
I think it’s good to let user have an option to enable In-Series in RSS feed.
Posted: Apr 5th, 2007 at 22:00
@Jqq
No, I have not looked at RSS in any way, shape or form — but I’ll keep it in mind going forward.
Posted: Apr 6th, 2007 at 00:54
Thanks, but could you consider to do a little modification for RSS in 3.0 ? I think readers see a previous link text without toc or any hints will confuse them. Or maybe have an option to disable it.
Posted: Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:39
@Jqq
Wait and see if the bug is still in 3.0 (it’s a rewrite). I’m on a deadline right now, so I don’t quite have the time to go bug-hunting. After Monday, though, I’ll be happy to look into this for 2.2 or 2.1.