61924

Website update

Posted by Frank on February 8th, 2010 UTC.  Tags: website-update github jsimgbox

Version 0.1.4 of 61924.nl is done. A comment system has been added, Shadowbox has been replaced and stuff has been moved to Github. Some more minor updates will follow later.

Comment system

I finally took the time to add a comment system. Well, system is a big word. It's just something simple. And instead of decrypting a captcha to post a comment, you can just login with your Google account. You just have to click one link, press "confirm" or "login" and you can post a comment. Twitter and maybe Facebook will be added later.

All the comments are stored in a Redis database. And that was much easier and took less time to write than a comment system that uses PostgreSQL, which I've used when I made a comment system for Web.py. Yay for Redis!

Jsimgbox2

Also, Shadowbox has been replaced by something I made myself. While Shadowbox is great and has a lot of features, I wanted something really simple. So I picked up Javascript again and wrote Jsimgbox2. It's really simple and light (1.3KB!). It just shows an image and that it's it. Who needs more?!

It doesn't work in Internet Explorer at the moment, but that will be fixed later. When I find a Windows computer...

I will release it when it works in all the most used browsers and I'll put it on Github later this week.

Github

All the code of my projects is now hosted on Github instead of my self hosted Mercurial repository. Hosting stuff on Github is much easier and it has some useful things like an issue tracker and wiki. You can see all the repository at my profile/account page.