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We I got around to outlining the release goals for Spensierato

You can find the upto date roadmap at http://spensierato.fryer.org.uk/21 but for the lazy:

There should be a working installer now, let me know if you have any problems.

Now also includes an alternative CSS although it contains many bugs it sets an example framework to start from.

Update:

Bug fixes release Pre Release 5.1

• Due to a find and replace error (My fault) saving of text elements got broken.
• Skin updates to work better when Tidy is not installed
• Updates to allow users with out apaches mod_rewrite to still use the site
• Installer now includes a prity background

Download it from the Demo and Download page

Roadmap to Alpha 1 on its way.

I have updated the location of the SVN and added Spensierato to Ohloh the svn is now at http://svn.fryer.org.uk/cms/

Now with working page security, yay.

Minor updates to the skin, more bug fixes, outline of install script and new fancy favicon!

See the downloads page for more

Been a while since I updated this so here is a short list of recent work

• Implemented Page class
• Put in fixes for above
• Updated to MooTools 1.2
• Updated TinyMCE to 3.1
• Lots of template updates
• Javascript image pre-loading function
• Temp disabled session path setting due to bug
• Spensierato now uses PHPIDS for intrusion detection
• Updated my Bind zone file with a TXT field for the current released revision so update checking is almost working
• Updated to the warning class
• New settings
• Plus minor fixes

I was recently asked how I got ClamAV to tag my emails with its version information, which is also useful to check if your emails were scanned as if ClamAV was re-starting when an email goes through then they will not be scanned.

By editing my exim config with the following ACL

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# Deny if the message contains malware. Before enabling this check, you
# must install a virus scanner and set the av_scanner option in the
# main configuration.
#
# exim4-daemon-heavy must be used for this section to work.
#
deny
malware = *
message = This message was detected as possible malware ($malware_name).

# Add ClamAV scanned header

warn
message = X-Virus-Scanned: (${readsocket{/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl}{VERSION}{2s}{}{AV Not running}})

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If ClamAV was not running the email is tagged with X-Virus-Scanned: AV Not running

Hope this helps

Due to having my house re-wired updates to the blog and spensierato are a little sporadic.

One of the biggest problems facing the internet I feel is security or the lack of it by many coders out there, there are posts after articles after reviews about how lax security even PayPal has been caught out recently and HSBC well that’s just another story.

I feel that if I am to be confident about releasing Spensierato to the wider public it MUST be secure and so I am inviting people to try and hack my test site, I have a full backup in case it goes pete tong. I would appreciate any breaches people find to be reported back to me and as the code is public patches would be nice too!

hit http://spensierato.fryer.org.uk and hack away just let me know how you get on good and bad.

So I somehow acquired a 3.5 L Rover V8 from a 1980 Range Rover, currently on twin SU carbs. I have asked if the person who made my megajolt kit could convert it to 8 cylinder EDIS. Photos to come.

I need to try and get it running ASAP so I need to build an engine trolley, so I guess I need to source a fuel pump and pipeing, a load of wires and box section steal as well as a radiator and plumbing.

I have made a permanent snapshot of Spensierato.

The current release has working text elements and new page creation, installation still requires manual set up but the mysqli install file is included and only needs to be ran through phpmyadmin and a quick look and the install.inc file should be a copy and paste job to create the setup file.

Check out the Sourceforge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/spensierato/ for details.