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Planet Blender v2 beta 4 ‘Turning Pages’

jesterKing — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:40:08 +0000

jesterPrincess was not really wanting to fall asleep, so I took her at some point in the sling, where she finally fell asleep. During that time I worked more on Planet Blender (and some other projects that will be published soon enough. Exciting!). I give you back the possibility to browse pages again! As of this writing, there are 393 pages worth of reading, meaning a whopping lot of community chatter

I also fixed numerous bugs throughout the code base, reshuffling code too.

Enjoy!

Planet Blender v2 beta3 “Remember the days”

jesterKing — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:22:33 +0000

Last night I published a new small feature for Planet Blender, namely a calendar from which you can see how many messages have been posted through the various feeds. There is even code ready for browsing through the calendar, and picking days so you see all messages for that specific day (like this many we had last year). This brings us to Planet Blender v2 beta3, which I have dubbed “Remember the days”. Some sample URLs for the impatient:

http://www.planetblender.org/cal/2009/10 (this one shows just different calendar)

http://www.planetblender.org/day/2008/11/10 (this one shows messages for that day)

I’ll be adding more browsing functionality (like older/newer buttons, and search) over time. Keep checking the site for news!

Planet Blender v2 beta2 – In The Fast-Lane

jesterKing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:40:16 +0000

After a long period of being busy with family and other important things, I finally got around to doing something with Planet Blender. The speed of v2 beta1 was frankly quite awful, and I was looking into doing something with clean and small code.

I searched for solutions and finally I tried my hand on Web.py. In 10 minutes I rewrote the front-end to something that is nice compact and easy to maintain. I dropped also the resource hog javascript (dojotoolkit) so that the site is now nice fast compared to the previous version. I imagine that browsing Planet Blender is now easier also for those that use addons like NoScript and filtering solutions. There’s still enough left to do (like a proper layout), but with the new code in place I should be able to write more code in shorter time (I’m just more comfortable writing Python than PHP… )

I hope you enjoy coming to this Planet Blender and find information and news to your liking.

/Nathan

T-Shirt from Project London

jesterKing — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:27:26 +0000

Yesterday I found a nice surprise among the post. A more than cool t-shirt from Project London! I thank Phil, Nathan and Ian for this great gift.

As you may have noticed, I run on Planet Blender a banner campaign. Why? Because I like what they’re doing AND they use Blender. I wish the Project London team good luck with creating this movie. In my book it goes under the chapter “Much Anticipated”. Check the movie, you’ll love it…

Project London - Post-Production Team T-Shirt

RSS Feed for Planet Blender and more. The first Beta.

jesterKing — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:48:35 +0000

Finally I sat down and enabled the RSS feed for Planet Blender. This file you can now add back to your favourite feed reader. It shows the latest 10 blogs that have been aggregated into Planet Blender. The feed is updated together with the contents of Planet Blender. So once every hour you get the latest news of what is going on in our Blender world.

I have also created another feature, which you hopefully will like: reading of older and newer posts on Planet Blender. At the top you can now find buttons for browsing through all the pages in Planet Blender. There are at this writing over 120 pages worth of posts. With 20 posts featured on each page that is over 2400 posts.

Now that Planet Blender can be read outside of Planet Blender, the addition of navigation. This all adds up to the first beta release of Planet Blender v2.

As always, do report missing feeds through the submission panel (note: submit the actual RSS/ATOM feed, that ensures better handling).

You may also have noticed the two campaigns that are running on Planet Blender. I support both Project Durian and Project London. For Project Durian, lets get to the 2000 sold copies during preorder! Have your friends order one too. Project London I’ve been following for a long time, and I think they’re doing a great job, using Blender for all the CGI in the film. It’ll be a blast!

That’s it for now. Enjoy Planet Blender, and if you have improvement ideas, don’t hesitate to send them in by commenting on the news items.

Broken encoding – working on update

jesterKing — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:21:37 +0000

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

Upgraded Database server – request for donation

jesterKing — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:32:40 +0000

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 this link and make a donation. It would be great to be able to raise 360 dollars on a yearly basis. And of course, if we get more donations than that, we can ensure even better services by upgrading to even better performance for the database server!

/Nathan

Database server changed – [missing posts fixed]

jesterKing — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:36:25 +0000

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 solve it ASAP. Thank you for your patience.

/Nathan

Planet Blender trouble fixed

jesterKing — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:45:12 +0000

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 reading!

Planet Blender and Languages

jesterKing — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:00:55 +0000

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.