Distractions

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So yesterday was Newanz "birthday" again. I'm not sure how many years Newanz is active right now, but I'm guessing two years. I did nothing special, because why should I?

I've been having trouble working on NWC. I mean I tried, but there are so many fun stuff to do. Lately I've been distracted by Desertbus.org. For the children!

However in my spare time I have worked on fixing some bugs in some previously build parts of NWC. While I was doing that I thought it might be wise to improve some Javascript stuff with things that I learned while making the file manager. The blog system is almost done, it doesn't look very fancy, but I'm aiming for the functionality first. Right now I have three objects that can be used for content that are close to completion. The blog, the general content and a navigation tree.

I hope I my progress so far is a sign for things to come.

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn

NWC File manager

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It's pretty much done. It looks like crap, but it works! (Theming will be done later on.)
A fully AJAX based file manager. Much better than the one in NewsOffice! Now why would I like to make that? Isn't making in PHP for 100% much easier? Well yeah perhaps, but can you implement that anywhere else on your site?
Yes you can? Well with only three lines of code? No? I thought so.
These three lines make it so much easier for outside plug-in builders to use the file manager for their own purposes. But most of all I like the ease with which I can load it in the page I want and only on the moment I want it to.

So what's next? Good question... I don't know really. The user manager is broken, but I'm going to use the file manager as a basis for that one. I could work on the sitemap again, but every time I do that I hate working on NWC so I guess the news/blog system is next.

Update: So now it also works in the Opera and Internet Explorer browsers. Argh...

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn

Do not disturb

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For some reason I have trouble logging into the admin panel lately. Problem probably is the database getting filled up with a lot of useless records from visits. I have given up looking through these for errors and they are mainly used for the statistics page and the "Views" count on item pages.

The title? Oh yes... NWC drove me crazy last night with some AJAX and JQuery issue. I'm starting fresh right now trying to keep my cool, but the dislike for JavaScript, which was actually getting less, is at it's peak again. Not so good for JavaScript and NWC, because NWC, like Nyes, is heavily based on JavaScript. Poor me.

But there is more that I need to do. Before the end of this year I have to expand the Ingram Micro NewServer website. Which actually brings in some cash, but will slow down NWC progress.

Also, if you are wondering why there is no "NWC item page"? I'll answer that. NWC is pretty much Nyes, but started as a new project. The project details are roughly the same so I see no point to create a new item page.

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn