PolarLava::Blog

Today marks the second anniversary of the PolarLava Blog. And here is the now infamous first post.  Being a generally pointless post, here's a generally pointless link to last year's posting about this momentous event.

You try to do something good and what do you get?  In some cases, maybe death when you could still be saved!  DOH!

I'm now running what will be PolarBlog V1.3.0 on this, my live blog.  If you notice anything odd, let me know.  There are a few bug fixes and enhancements in this release, but the biggie for this release is internationalization (I18N).  With this release —barring any unknown problems, PolarBlog should now support languages other than U.S. English.  I've been working with a German developer on implementing this and he may also be beta testing this as well in the coming days.  If you are fluent in something other than English, translators are need.

Looking ahead to V1.4, if you have features you would like to see added please let me know.  At this time I know of two feature that will be in V1.4:

• Topic Icon Sizing - Right now all icons are locked at 32x32.  This was a carryover from PWL.  I may add scaleable sizing to the Topic Edit section, but that may be more trouble than it is worth.  At the very least the 32x32 lockdown will be removed.  That's a trivial change.
• Output Compression - I will be add the ability to gzip compress your PolarBlog output.  This creates a minor load increase on the web server, but it cuts your bandwidth useage greatly.

As a parent I often question whether I am qualified or even mentally fit to be "molding" little minds.  But then along comes quality parenting like this to make me feel better.  I might not be "Father of the Year", but I think this fall under the category of "Things you really should know not to do".

This unplanned release fixes a problem introduced in V1.2.2 whereby the Comment link on an entry would display the entry (ala Permalink), but not the commenting form!  I've also backed out half of the change made to the DisplayEdit() function that dealt with converting HTML entities.  This wasn't working as well as I had hoped and I need to explore this further.  This entity situation is likely of minimal impact to anyone.