Version 13 did not fix the problems with the Feed Icon image path. Luckily problems were noticed straight away and were easy to fix. I Forgot to write entry that I made new version (14) after the fixes. Version 14 can be downloaded here.
For those who are interested the full source code changes of version 14 can be inspected at github.
When adding the feed icon, I accidentally used relative path for the image file. That resulted in feed icon not showing all the time on default installs. It shows always on this blog, as I have some url rewrite magic going on. Fixed that and released version 13.
For those who are interested the full source code changes of version 13 can be inspected at github.
Released new version of Kukkaisvoima with lots of little neat stuff. This is the sidebar release, since most of the new functionality is there. Archive entries (months, years) and categories will now have Javascript visibility toggling. There is also finally RSS icon for all entries and for each category.
In addition to more visible changes, I also streamlined the dates and refactored some internals. I had more drastic changes in mind, such as cleaner URLs and changing categories to tags (just for shorter name, nothing else), but left those to next version. I also worked with the CSS a little, but did the changes only to this blog, not to Kukkaisvoima repository. I might update the default CSS later, but in the meantime here is a link to this site's CSS.
For those who are interested the full source code changes of version 12 can be inspected at github.
More search related functionality this time. Version 11 adds comment search. Now the search results display also strings from inside comments and comment authors.
There is also option to show only first paragraph of the blog entry when browsing the main page. This option will be dictated by entrysummary variable that is False on default. So to get the summary working change the value to True.
Other fixes include couple of small bug fixes. It was quite nice to notice that some of these fixed were contributed by someone else than me. Fun to know that Kukkaisvoima is used. I left the RSS links (discussed here) out of version 11, but I will integrate those in the next release, sorry for that.
For those who are interested the full source code changes of version 11 can be inspected at github.
As the headline says, no more RSS feed icon on the address bar for Firefox 4. This is quite troublesome for Kukkaisvoima as the links for the feeds are not visible anywhere on the page.
I happily assumed that feeds will be noticed from the address bar of the webbrowser. So now for Firefox 4 users it will be quite hard to find the RSS feeds. I will fix this in the next release and add some RSS links on the sidebar or somewhere where they can be easily found.
It is quite strange decision to drop the feed icon. The icon was nice way to have a common feed subscription method for all browsers. But as Twitter and Facebook also dropped RSS feeds, this only seems to be logical. Nevertheless removing it will probably slowly fade the traditional web feeds into obscurity.
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.
I finally added option to subscribe follow-up comments via email. I had some doubts how it would work, but apparently it works quite well. The actual email sending is just a Python library function, so it will work, if your webhost allows it. If email notifications for new comments worked before for the blog owner, these subscriptions should also work.
I am sure there is still some bugs in the new commenting code, so I will try this for some time before making an "official" release.
Two years ago I blogged about blogs powered by Kukkaisvoima. Someone might have noticed that none of the links in that post work anymore. So I thought it would be nice to see if there are any Kukkaisvoima blogs around at the start of year 2011. As it turns out, there are quite a few. Here are some links found with google:
It is really refreshing to see how much customization has been made to different Kukkaisvoima installations. If you have Kukkaisvoima Blog not listed above, feel free to post link to comments!
Kukkaisvoima 10 is shaping nicely and will hopefully be released in couple of months. Biggest change is better comments, but there are also some cleanups in the code. Changes made after version 9 can be seen at Kukkaisvoima's commit history page on GitHub.
For some time now I have been thinking of implementing new sidebar entry: Recent comments. Now that there seems to be some new comments on this blog, I finally did write the code for it. There is nice cached index for the sidebar entry, which gets updated when new comment is posted or old one is remove.
I already pushed the code to the git repository, but I am not going to release Kukkaisvoima version 10 just yet. I am thinking of adding nice array for sidebar, which will tell what entries there will be, so that it will be easier to exclude something and add new things to it, if someone wishes. Also it might be good to test this sidebar stuff for a while.
By the way, I noticed really nice disqus integration for Kukkaisvoima on brian hefele's untidy space blog. If one is not that fond of Kukkaisvoima's default commenting system that one looks like a really good alternative. Check it out.
From time to time somebody (you know who you are) keep asking, if I will set up public revision control repository for Kukkaisvoima. I have been using Git distributed revision control from the beginning, so it seemed to be logical to put up public Git repository for Kukkaisvoima, so I did that. You can now find the public Git repository of Kukkaisvoima here: http://github.com/Petteri/kukkaisvoima/tree/master. The Git clone url can be found at that page and general Git instructions can be found from the Git User's Manual.
Current Kukkaisvoima version does not seem to have any bugs and I don't have any plans for new features, so I don't think I will update the source code too often. When I do, I will put those fixes to that repository. All patches are also welcome.