ironing our pants into the universe

Spring is in the air and nerds are in the bar. Spent the day at Codefest 3.0 yesterday (I was the guy wearing the Renoise t-shirt) and managed to churn out 2.0.5. Drum-roll for the changelist:

• A rare infinite redirect problem was fixed
• A bug with the bookmarks menu was fixed
• Log buttons in the user administration menu were added
• The suxNaiveBayesian() destructor is not called unless the user is logged in
• A problem was fixed in which an unapproved feed couldn't be edited
• The CAPTCHA system was migrated from jpGraph to Securimage
• jpGraph removed
• htmLawed was updated to 1.1.8 and TinyMCE was updated to 3.2.3

By removing jpGraph the .zip file sux0r is distributed in was reduced from roughly 8MB to 4MB. I had lofty dreams for jpGraph but spring cleaning got the best of me.

I'd also like to thank Microsoft, the unlikeliest of sponsors, for picking up the tab on the pints that fueled this release. That was pretty cool of them to sponsor Codefest. I will take them up on the IIS offer and hopefully do a sux0r compatibility check in the next few months.

Last day of Codefest is today. See you there?

Fathers lock up your dongles because Codefest 3.0 is only 2 weeks away. 

At the Helm in Mile End, the first weekend of May promises to be a productive hunchback of nerding and drinking. TestFest and TikiFest up in there too. I will be representing sux0r.

See you there?

Codefest 2.2 executive summary: My bike was stolen, I can't lift my left arm anymore, and three pitchers of Boréale Noire for the road. Mission accomplshed!

In all seriousness I spent two days working on sux0r PostgreSQL integration while hobnobbing with smart people working on projects such as PHP Quebec, TikiWiki and Identi.ca. Enriching and productive as expected.

On top of that, chinese translations (ch_ZN) have been submitted by wangzhenzhen. I will be integrating the translations into the next release. Thanks wangzhenzhen!

I'm going to be at Montreal's Codefest 2.2 this weekend working on sux0r 2.0. Theme: optimization and unit testing.

A bunch of dudes and dudettes drinking and coding for 2 days straight. I've been to another CodeFest before and met several regional Open Source intelligentsia. I am humbled in their presence but the experience is enriching, productive, and good times. See you there?

In other news, Network Redux i.e. the best web hosting company I've ever dealt with is sponsoring sux0r with a virtual private server. I'll be setting that up in the next few days. Thanks for the support! Good things to come.