Dan, Glad you are still dong well. I am still interested and using bolwire. Looking forward to new version. Wouldn't mind testing or helping with documentation. john
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:52:18 PM UTC+9, Dan wrote: > Greetings everyone! > > It has been a long while since there has been much activity on the > BoltWire newslist. I hope it is because everyone is satisfied with the > software and everything is working fine for you. I know my main site > is humming along quite well with a very large, active, and happy > community. Mission accomplished! > > At the same time, I have been wanting to do a major rewrite of the > software for some time, and relaunch it under a 4.xx series. I have > been making excellent progress on that the last month or so, and am > getting close to a beta release. Here are just a few of the features > of the new software: > > * Improved form handling. Now you can put various parameters in input > fields to filter and/or transform user input in a whole new way. And > parameters can go in command fields (formerly 'sessions') to control > how they function--just like we do in BoltWire functions. This was > actually the major goal for this upgrade and it is working > beautifully. It adds amazing new capabilities to commands that were > either difficult or impossible to do before. In fact, I'd describe it > as a major conceptual breakthrough. > > * Improved boxes. Added some major flexibility to these--including > among other things a "rules" parameter which allows you to control > which markups can be processed in comment boxes for example. Great > idea! > > * Info var arrays. Now you store info arrays like field: > var1::var2::var3 and either retrieve the entire field or any of the > sub-elements. This is a fast and efficient way to store and extract > discrete sets of information. I've been really wanting this feature > myself for awhile. And it's working perfectly now. > > * Improved code commenting. Having done little developing for over a > year, and coming back to the code cold--I definitely see the value of > comments in the core! I'm adding lots of notes here and there. > > * Streamlined code. Even with all the comments I've managed to cut out > 20% of the code by removing some config options, and moving some > rarely used features to plugins. I've also rewritten major sections to > simplify the code. I'm going through the entire code base little by > little. I'm surprized at how much simpler the code can be--while > enhancing functionality! And speed should get a boost too... > > Anyway, wanted to find out if there is anyone interested in testing > out the new software. It won't be ready for prime time release anytime > soon, but getting a few hands to take a look at things would help > speed up development. BoltWire 4.xx will not be an easy upgrade--but > if you have time to play around or are considering developing a new > site--it might be worth a try. I need to also set up a 4.xx site to > start posting new documentation. > > Ok, looking forward to hearing back from some of you. I should be > putting out a final 3.xx release sometime soon with a few fixes and > tweaks from the last year or so and then that strand should come to a > close. Moving forward, my focus is definitely going to be getting my > live site switched over to BoltWire 4.xx. > > Cheers, > Dan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/boltwire/-/VQqyTWubs9MJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
