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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

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.

Planet Blender v2

jesterKing — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:22:10 +0000

After a month of silence from my part, due to work load (man, guiding people can take so much time), I finally got a hold of myself last weekend and started working on an improved interface for Planet Blender.

I still use the same aggregation code (but I have already thought of some improvements in that area too). The interface is what I’ve been working on, and I’ll keep improving it.

For now I’ll work on the JavaScript enabled part only, but at some point the RSS-feed will come back too, so you can read it in your favourite feed reader.

I’ll put up a tracker for Planet Blender too, so when you find issues, you can report them and I’ll try to fix them whenever I can.

Since last Sunday I’ve done 3 small releases, and I’ll continue in providing small releases. The first one was called ‘Minimal’, the second ‘Getting rolling…’ and the current, third release is dubbed ‘Transmitting’. Keep coming back to see if I’ve added new features to the site.

For now, enjoy the current state, and do send in feeds to blogs by Blenderheads. (Note, make sure you submit the actual RSS or Atom feed, just the homepage for the blog is not enough). Feeds will be verified before they are excepted.

Have fun!

/Nathan