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After a really, really, really long wait (sorry!) and some keyboard struggles (my keyboard broke on Tuesday; figures), Chasr 2 is finally here! You can download it now. While not even half of what I wanted it to be, it’s a pretty decent version. Here are some of the new features:
- Improved caching. The new caching system is really great. It knows what to cache and when to cache it.
- The new admin page. The new administrative page is where you set almost every preference (except the initial database preferences).
- More languages. Chasr ships with US English, British English, and Spanish. Please contact me if you’d like to translate Chasr into your language.
- New customization. A lot of the code in the theme is customizable.
- Favorites. A person browsing your site can add a photo to their favorites, and browse their favorites of your photos.
- Improved searching. The search page has been renovated and includes a couple of new options.
- New archive. The archives page has been renovated as well and includes options such as date posted and taken.
Despite all of the work that has gone into this version, there are a lot of things to be improved upon. Here are some things you’ll see in the coming months:
- Machine tags, as recognized by machinetags.org, will be supported in the future. Right now there aren’t really any applicable machine tags to be included with Chasr, so when useful tags are recognized by machinetags.org I’ll be sure to include support in Chasr.
- I have more work to do on displaying notes and adding new ones. This will probably come in the next few months.
- There aren’t any RSS feeds in this version; they will probably come in the next six months or so.
- The location archive was not finished in time for this release. This feature is a lot of work, but I’ll eventually finish it within the next six months.
- I discovered a better way to cache things a couple of days ago, and I’ll be sure to implement it within the next few weeks.
Overall, Chasr 2 is a big step up from the first version of Chasr, but it’s a bit disappointing because I had such high expectations. Regardless, I suggest that you enjoy Chasr. Feedback is always welcome as well.
-Chasen
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- Date and time: Thursday, June 7th, 2007
There hasn’t been an update to Chasr in well over a month, let alone an update with new features. What gives?
I’ve been working on the next version of Chasr for many, many months now and I thought I would have it finished by this month; that’s not happening. The new version, with all of its improvements and new features, has taken a tremendous amount of time to develop.
I’ve determined that the next version of Chasr will be released on June 5th of this year (I’m not that slow!). I might cut back on one feature or two that I have stated before, but I don’t think that I will need to.
When the next version of Chasr is released, it will be the best way to put your Flickr photos on your own website. If you’d like to test an alpha version of Chasr 2, get in contact with me and I’d love to share it with you.
-Chasen
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- Date and time: Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
For the past four weeks, there have not been any new releases of Chasr; there should have been one two weeks ago, and one today. What gives?
As part of my continual development of Chasr, I found myself researching internationalization and localization about four weeks ago. I started looking at standards, creating code, and figuring out how Chasr should handle internationalization; I’m still not finished. To add to that, as part of creating new features, I’ve switched to a different code model that requires major changes and lots of testing.
I’m expecting to have a new release in two weeks time (from today), but I refuse to make any promises. I also expect to release a bunch of little releases every week for a good month after the next release, but I won’t put any such promise on that either. In any event, do not despair because of the lack of activity here; Chasr development continues and there will be a new release relatively soon.
If you have found any bugs in Chasr, please do contact me so that I can fix them.
Update: the wait will be even longer than the expected two weeks; check again in another two weeks time (that’s the day after Christmas!). I’m sorry for the delay, but it’s only a matter of time.
Update 2: Despite my dedication to getting this next release finished, I still haven’t finished the code transition that I’m working on. I might finish the code today, but I still haven’t finished the new features that I was planning for this next release. I will probably do a double release in the next two weeks: one on the 2nd and another on the 9th. After that, I hope to be on a regular release schedule.
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- Date and time: Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
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