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Based on the wonderful feedback I got on my last post, I just put together a new beta version of Asaph. It fixes the most common problems people had with the last one. This includes:
- Usage of cURL or url fopen wrappers, based on what’s available
- magic_quotes are now reverted automatically
- The RSS Feed should now display images properly
- Lots of smaller bugfixes
Again, to install just unpack the zip, enter your database settings in lib/asaph_config.class.php, upload it to your webserver and point your browser to admin/install.php.
If you already installed the previous version, just replace all the files and skip the install step, as the database layout didn’t change.
Asaph version 1.0 – ZIP ~50kb – Updated: Asaph version 1.0
I have some more plans and ideas for future versions of Asaph. Don’t hold your breath though – this will take some time :)
Over the past few weeks I developed Asaph – a small blogging system, that allows you to instantly post links and images directly from any page on the web. This makes Asaph the most fun to use application if you want to collect and show all the cool things you found elsewhere. Asaph is not a full blown blog and it does not aim to be one – it just does this one task, but it’s pretty good at it.
Watch a screencast to learn what makes Asaph worth using: Asaph Screencast on Vimeo.com
My own Asaph blog can be found at asaph.phoboslab.org.
Asaph is currently in Beta stage. It needs PHP5 and MySQL4 to run. To install, just unpack the zip, enter your database settings in lib/asaph_config.class.php, upload it to your webserver and point your browser to admin/install.php.
Asaph version 1.0 – ZIP ~50kb – Updated: Asaph version 1.0
Feedback is much appreciated!
A few weeks ago I was asked to build an Intranet-Site for a small company. Nothing too fancy – just the usual groupware stuff like News, Calendars a Blackboard etc. I was given some Photoshop Files which were easily translated to XHTML. The layout was already approved by the client so this step was pretty much a no-brainer.
I always wanted to try out the Drupal CMS and figured this Intranet-Site would be a perfect fit for it. Drupal was developed with community sites in mind; every aspect of it was designed support the extensive built in User and Rights management. Just what I needed.
My XHTML file was quickly adjusted to function as a Drupal template. Not everything was working right from the beginning, but I figured I’d first work out the hard stuff and care about these “small rendering bugs” later. So I carried on to build my content – which is where my odyssey started.
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A newly launched website, with which I’m in no way affiliated with (it wouldn’t correspond to the laws in Germany, *cough*), has an interesting approach to “create” content. Users constantly deliver new images and web links that are always up to date and show what’s hot in the web at the very moment – probably faster than any other fun site, forum or blog.
The website I’m talking about is Pr0gramm.com (probably NSFW at any time of the day!). It’s actually not only a website, but also an IRC-bot, that idles in different channels on the chat network Quakenet. This bot catches all URLs written in these chat channels. If an image URL is posted, the image is downloaded by the bot and displayed with a thumbnail on the website in a matter seconds.
There’s no extra work for anyone – the website constantly gathers new content and the chatters benefit by having an archive of everything posted in their channels for free. I won’t say it’s Web 3.0, but as users don’t generate content knowingly, I guess it’s not exactly Web 2.0 either.
Pr0gramm.com also has another cool feature, which probably has come to your attention already: Image thumbnails are generated in different sizes, corresponding to their importance (the rating), and are then sorted into a big grid. There’s some PHP and Javascript going on, to calculate size and position of these images. For matters I won’t discuss here, *cough*, I’m quite familiar with the inner workings of all this. So I’ll write another article about this technology as soon as I find some more time.
