Archive for the ‘ Planet Blender ’ Category

Broken encoding – working on update

Hi all, For some reason the output of Planet Blender broke. I am working on a different way of generating the page that should work around this problem. Until then, the output will look slightly odd because of wrong encoding. Please bear with me. /Nathan [ READ MORE ]

100th blog

Today I received an e-mail from Reynante Martinez to add his blog feed to Planet Blender. Now that I’ve added the blog feed, we have exactly a hundred feeds featured on Planet Blender. It’s great to see this aggregate grow slowly but surely over time. If you know of other Blender related blogs, then don’t hesitate [ READ MORE ]

Facebook button added

I’ve added a Facebook icon for each blog entry on Planet Blender. With this you can directly share articles from blogs on Facebook. Enjoy this little extra! [ READ MORE ]

Upgraded Database server – request for donation

The database server for Blenderstorm.org and Planetblender.org has been upgraded to a better solution. Already Blenderstorm is much more responsive, so that’s a good thing! The bad thing of course is the increased hosting costs. If you want to help us out providing these services, you can donate directly towards the hosting bill by going to [ READ MORE ]

Database server changed – [missing posts fixed]

Hi all, Last night the database server got changed to something more responsive, but in the course of the event somehow the blog posts before the change seem to be not showing up. I verified in the database itself that they are still there, but for some reason they won’t show up. I’m on it to [ READ MORE ]

Slowly getting close to a HUNDRED blogs

Planet Blender has been growing steadily over the past few months, with a few incarnations at the beginning and some new features during this period, and more to come of course! I have today added the Blender related RSS feeds for a few very interesting Vimeo channels, as mentioned in http://vimeo.com/BlenderAnim/blog:1821 I hope that we can together make [ READ MORE ]

Planet Blender trouble fixed

The loyal readers of the Planet Blender feed probably have noticed half a day of errors in the feed. My host moved my account around between some machines, and some changes were made to home directory locations. The way I had set Planet Blender up naturally broke with that, but fortunately all is fine again. Enjoy [ READ MORE ]

blender.org servers also down

The blender.org servers are also down (talk about coincidence). The beloved administrator of our servers is working on it! Again, hang tight. [ READ MORE ]

Blendernation.com temporarily unreachable [back online]

Blendernation.com has been unreachable for a while now. The ISP has been contacted and the problem will be solved ASAP.  Just hang in there, alright? update: blendernation.com is back online again. [ READ MORE ]

Planet Blender and Languages

I’ve implemented a very simple language ’switch’ for Planet Blender. By default, only English blogs will be show, when you go to ie. http://www.planetblender.org . In the left bar you can choose to view blogs from all languages though. This means that from now on, I’ll accept blogs from all languages for aggregation on Planet Blender. [ READ MORE ]