PolarLava::Blog

Well, my intent after releasing MyClient 3.0.0 was to go back to work on PolarBlog.  And although it is my intent to get back to it, I've decided to do some additional enhancements on my CycleLog project first.  I haven't had any urgent requests for changes to PolarBlog other than my own desires, so this appears that it won't be having a tremendous impact on the PolarBlog user community.  (Feel free to comment otherwise.)  A rough guess at this point, with the summer arriving and my increased work commitments says that PolarBlog development will likely not resume before September.  So with that said and in no particular order, here's a brain dump of things I'd like to do to PolarLava CycleLog V2.2.0 (I'iwi).

• Minor Name Change - Henceforth instead of just calling it "CycleLog", it will be known as "PolarLava CycleLog".  This is in anticipation that I may publically release this project, although it's unlikely to get packaged and documented during this upgrade cycle.  Even so, it's still available for the asking if you cycle and have the ability to hack PHP.
• Search Improvements - I have an immediate need to add the ability to seach for rides within a specific mileage range.  I also intend to add the ability to do ad hoc searches of my ride notes.  It probably won't happen in this release, but I'd also like to be able to search based on a bounded temperature range similar to my mileage search requirement.  Doing this is a little more involved because of the underlying table structure.
• Sleep Time - The addition of an "hours of sleep" field to the ride Personal Data section.
• Yearly Summary Page - Similar to the home page "Year-To-Date" display, I'd like to create a page that displays this same information, but on a year by year basis.
• Security Upgrades - Currently there a a few potential security issues I need to clean up.  Nothing catastrophic, just some concerns I have with the way certain things were coded previously.  Call it a learning process.
• Bike Page - All of the ride data that is displayed is associated with different bikes.  I'd like to add a page to display information about each bike along with a picture.
• Records Page - This new page will list some extremes: longest ride distance, longest/shortest ride by time, fastest average speed ride, maximum speed, extremes of weather, etc.  This one is sort of rolling around in my head so I don't know exactly what all will be contained in this page.
• Summary Update - The existing summary data has pretty much what I want in it I believe, but I'd like to make some of the elements clickable to the rides they relate too.
• Bike Maintenance - In addition to the Bike Page, I'd like to add a maintenance record component for each bike.  I would guess this has less than a 20% chance of being implemented in this release as it is a fairly significant undertaking.  Most likely to slide to V2.3.0
• Miscellaneous Bug Fixes - As always there a handful of small bugs that I also need to fix!.
• Calendar View - I forgot this one the other day…I'm looking into adding a weekly and monthly calendar view that will show basic ride info for the days that I've ridden as well as some sort of weekly and monthly totals.  This component would also the ability to view other weeks/months besides the current one.

I've released a minor update to MyClient to correct a typo in the config.php.dist file and also add some documentation updated.  If you are already running V3.0.0 successfully there is no need for you to upgrade to this version.

Well, it's been about four months since I got serious about rewriting MyClient.  And that effort has finally paid off as V3.0.0 (Hydra), the new multi-tabbed version has been released.  More complete details about what is in this release can be found in this entry.

Well, its been exactly three months to the day that I outlined what would be in MyClient (Hydra).  At this point I'm through writing code and all of the features outlined in the previous post have been implemented.  This will be release as MyClient V3.0 hopefully in the next week or so.  I now must do some extensive rewriting of the documentation as this release is a complete rewrite and will require all users to create a new configuration file.  So while I'm slogging away on documentation, you can go view the new screenshots.

As mentioned in this entry, I've started work on a long overdue update to MyClient.  This is a complete rewrite from the ground up and will feature several significant changes.

• Tabbed Interface - The current version allows for 3 query windows via links at the bottom of the page.  The new version will have a tabbed interface at the top and allow for a virtually unlimited number of query windows.  Whatever your system and brain can handle.  By default it will have 5 windows and a documentation tab.
• Multiple DB Connections - Currently MyClient will only connect the 3 query windows to one database.  The new multi-headed version —thus the "Hydra" moniker, will allow for virtually unlimited multiple database connections as mentioned above.  There will be a default DB connection for all tabs and if you would like, you can specify a different connection on a per tab basis.  So by default you can have either the old single DB, multiple query window configuration, or you can a different DB connecton for each tab.  This a fundamental change to the way MyClient operates.
• New Look - Hydra will have a new look similar to other projects in the PolarLava family.  This will be a CSS configurable layout.
• Internationalization - Localized enabled to support your language.
• XHTML Compliance - Hydra  will be XHTML 1.0 compliant.
• CSS Compliance - Hydra  will be CSS2 compliant.
• Register Globals - Hydra  will run with register_globals off.
• Retained Features - The ability to save and load queries as well as the data dumping option will remain.  The way these operate may change, but the basic funtionality will remain.