Time flies. It is almost three (3) years since last
official Kukkaisvoima release. Version 9 was working fine, but as
usual, there is always some room for improvement, so here is version
10.
There were slowly (but steadily) coming comments to this blog. I
noticed that commenting was not that polished. Comment validation was
missing. Invalid comments were discarded properly, but no errors were
reported to the user commenting a blog entry. I myself was bit by
this, when posting a longish comment on friends Kukkaisvoima
blog. Long and thoughtful blog comment gone in a blink of an eye. It
hurts. So now there is Javascript comment validation. Hopefully it
will prevent similar errors.
Second new feature of version 10 is Gravatar support. Gravatar is nice way
to map email address to globally available avatar picture. Since
Kukkaisvoima was already saving email addresses of blog commentator,
it was no-brainer to link those emails to gravatar images. So now
Kukkaisvoima has nice picture beside every comment. Of course Gravatar
support can be easily turned off, if one does not want to be
affiliated with Gravatar.
Option to get email notifications about new comments was also
added. New comments will be sent to commentators who have subscribed
for notifications. Notification email will also include nice one click
URL that can be used to unsubscribe from the notifications.
Lastly there were some outside contributions to cleanup the
Kukkaisvoima source from some inconsistencies. Thanks for those.
For full changes and the source code modifications can be seen Kukkaisvoima's
source repository at Github..
Although I tried to test the commenting system, there might be some
bugs still. Bugs can be reported to Kukkaisvoima's
issue tracker at Github.
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Ian Barrow:
2011-03-30, 2 years and 51 days ago
Tried this last weekend, liked it a lot, now version ten
Fantastic....
I'am only playing with it at the moment, but will probably use it for a blog or two..
PS
How do you pronounce ' Kukkaisvoima'
Thanks
Ian
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Petteri:
2011-03-30, 2 years and 51 days ago
Hi, Kukkaisvoima can be quite hard to get started with, but at least it works for me nicely. There is also some other nice blogs running Kukkaisvoima, so I would guess that it works for others also.
If you plan to have a public blog with Kukkaisvoima, notice that you probably want to deny the access to kukkaisvoima_settings.py file, since it can contain some sensitive information. This can be done for example with apache's .htaccess file.
About the Finnish pronunciation, it is quite easy, as you pronounce the word as it reads, letter by letter. So no need to guess anything (other than the letters since they are pronounced differently from english :)).
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Ian:
2011-03-30, 2 years and 51 days ago
Hello... Your instructions were good and easy to get Kukkaisvoima up and running for me, (I had to wrestle with paths a little.)
and I added the .htaccess file to the directory as you said.
I guess due to python getting the data for the timestamp from the server has meant that the time is always out for me, but I hacked around in index.cgi to not include the time part of the date/time stamp ( i did this in v9 so is not done it in v10 yet) which is fine as I only want the date displayed not the whole timestamp.
as I said at the moment I am just playing.... but I have plans to use this as a blog in the future.
do you have any thoughts to include markdown support or would this spoil the philosophy of only having one python script.
btw, think I'm OK with pronunciation now ..... ;-)
thanks
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Ian:
2011-03-31, 2 years and 50 days ago
Time stamp hack I had in V 09 is not needed in version 10 as there is a datetime config variable to set in settings -- Brilliant
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Petteri:
2011-03-31, 2 years and 50 days ago
About the markdown support. I personally have not found any need for it. My blog entries contain only text, links and maybe some pictures. For these, I have to only use three html tags: "p", "img" and "a href".
I think it would be quite possible to hack markdown support for Kukkaisvoima, but as you said it would just bloat the source ;)
Couple of years ago someone sent me email about his Kukkaisvoima setup. He said he would write entries with somekind of wikimarkup (don't remember what it was) and then run some program to generate valid html from it for the blog entries. That could always be one approach.
I my self try to keep blog writing as simple as possible, so at least for now I am sticking with plain old html.
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sleddog:
2011-04-03, 2 years and 47 days ago
Updated!
Email notifications seem to work find though I do see a change from previously. The "From" address is only my email address, any text (e.g. my blog name) isn't sent. Not sure if it's (a) something I messed up, (b) my python version (2.5), or my SMTP server (Exim).
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sleddog:
2011-04-03, 2 years and 47 days ago
Forgot to enter my website address :)
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Petteri:
2011-04-03, 2 years and 47 days ago
I did a minor change to the email sending. I tried it out on my setup and it did not change anything, so I thought it would be fine, but it probably had some unwanted side effects.
If you know Python, you can easily change back too previous behaviour by reverting the changes in sendEmail function. Here is the change:
https://github.com/Petteri/kukkaisvoima/commit/581d1b855daa6efd9cf6ede466f12f8ee53a7fcb#L0L144
(first couple of lines). I can change those back in the next version.
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sleddog:
2011-04-03, 2 years and 47 days ago
The only change I can find that seems relevant is:
Version 9:
sender = 'Kukkaisvoima (%s) [%s]' % (baseurl, blogemail)
msg['from'] = sender
Changed to:
sender = 'Kukkaisvoima blog (%s) [%s]' % (baseurl, blogemail)
If I add back the "msg['from']" line, then the email I receive contains a garbled 'from' line in the BODY of the message.
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Petteri:
2011-04-03, 2 years and 47 days ago
Thanks for the information. I have debug this some more when I have time.
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sleddog:
2011-04-03, 2 years and 47 days ago
Happy to help. Thanks for your work :)
