Woohoo! Another Friday, and another update. Today's update includes the following changes:
- Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap. The number of lines in blog.cfc went down. Yes - for the first time in the history of BlogCFC, the giant beast known as the "UberCFC" actually shrunk a little bit. Basically I just moved the ping code out. Speaking of ping, Dave Carabetta added code to ping IceCast. Note - I think I called it IceCast in the docs. It's actually IceRocket. I'll update the doc in the next version.
- Stats.cfm has been updated to use the right SES links when possible. Also no-follow directives were added to the search term and category links.
- I found some more offset bugs. They should be all fixed now except one. BlogCFC lets you write an entry in the future. The entry will be hidden (except to those logged on) until it is time for it to be published. There is a caching issue where we only reset the cache once an hour, but this just means your entry will be, at most, an hour late. However - any subscribers to your blog will get the entry immediately. Therefore... future blog entries as a feature just isn't there. I'll address that later.
- Comments now use the same spam list as the trackback spam system. Thanks go out to vile, disgusting, stupid, lower-than-poop spammers out there who have nothing better to do then make our lives miserable. Oh, and I updated the TB spam list with my list.
- SimpleContentEditor is shipped to make it easier for folks to edit pods. I updated the version in the zip with the latest version available from the My Tools pod.
Enjoy. As always, you can visit my wish list or my free ipod nano promotion. Or you can just say "Good job!" Of course, you may want to wait a day or two as the bugs shake out.
This version was sponsored by the Depeche Mode MP3s that blared in my ears. I'm convinced that in 30 years we will have bionic ears. Therefore I am doing my part to damage my ear drums. (Specifically today it was older DM, Black Celebration played about 20 times.)
Archived Comments
DM rocks! So does BlogCFC! :)
Will
:grumbles: Sure, sure... do this the day *after* I upgrade.
Seriously, I wish there were docs on database changes between 3.9 and 4.0.
Good Job! ;)
I tried using this once before, but any language other than english (2 byte chars) just come out as gibberish on the RSS output.
Is it possible to fix that? The other pages are fine and there is no problem posting, viewing etc.
Good job!
I submitted a small del.icio.us fix to include the title when bookmarking ... maybe that can go for the next release.
Cheers
-Rob
Dang, I wanted to get that in but forgot. Will do it next time fo rsure.
One thing I noticed is that HTML tags are stripped out of the RSS feeds. That makes some posts 'odd' to read after syndication. For example, if I were to add a link to something. The 'A href' part would be wiped out leaving only the link text; which often makes no sense.
I'm assuming this is intentional, but why? Is it an option somewhere?
I did notice that some people (Simon Horwith for example) do not strip out the embedded HTML in the RSS feeds. Is this something changed code-wise?
Hi.
What can I download BlogCFC from?
(I can't find a download link.)
And also, can I join the BlogCFC project?
Because I wish to build the Japanese edition of BlogCFC.
-- Shigeru
You can download it from the project page - which I forgot to link to: http://ray.camdenfamily.com...
You can contribute by writing a locale file. See the one that ships with it for more info.
Jeff, seems like it may be a bug. In the RSS2 code, it is stripped out in both short and full mode. In RSS1, just short. I need to strip it from short mode so we don't cut an entry off in the middle of HTML. But long mode it should be ok - just xmlFormatted, which is escaped, and your reader should render it right.
Let me look into this.
Hey Ray, long time blogger, first time commentor.
I was wondering if you have heard of any problems with BlogCFC using the JRun version of CFMX 7. The reason I ask is that I'm having trouble with displaying an entry when clicking on the link from the front page.
Now, after I post this error, I'm sure everyone will say that it's something with JRun and that's fine! I just want to figure out what the problem is and fix it. Anyway, here's the error I get. And note, that this only happens with blogging software. I don't get this error anywhere else with any current applications.
<head><title>JRun Servlet Error</title></head><h1>404 /client/index.cfm/2005/12/19/My-blog</h1><body>
/client/index.cfm/2005/12/19/My-blog</body>
Any ideas? I'm running BlogCFC/JRun/Fedora Core 4/MySQL 4.1
Thanks for your time!
Cole
Sorry. Not long after I posted the previous comment, I figured out a fix for the URLs not working. I changed the blogURL from /index.cfm/year/month/day/alias to index.cfm?year=year&month=month&day=day&alias=alias.
Sorry to trouble you.
Thanks,
Cole
Cole, I know you changed, but you should consider reading this url: http://www.doughughes.net/i...
It may help make the original SES urls work.
Wow, thanks for the link. Turns out that in CFMX 7 that entry to allow SES links is in the web.xml file, it's just commented out.
Thanks again!
Cole
Could someone of fellow CFUsers cn direct me right way yo find a CF blog application which is compatible with CF 5.0. Thanx