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Spensierato Developments

Paul — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:46:49 +0000

I have been working hard on the integration of a shopping cart and PayPal payments, page and elements tagging is now working in the backend, just the interface to add and then online shops should be working yay. CSS inheritance works now for skins.

There is now a working auto search (The style is quite http request heavy at the min as transparent CSS sprites are a little tricky, but it’s quite a nice proof of concept). Check out Smart Performance Engines for a working example (Note the known bug below)

There are still some bugs, like the YUI compressed MooTools produces errors which crash IE’s JavaScript, the new menu code (

) needs re-skinning in the default template.

Unfortunately these updates require quite large schema updates, sorry.

I have been working on a new template which I might make the default it is based on the CSS work by Position Everything author Alex Robinson

Anyway should not be long before Alpha 2, there has been quite a change to the road map with these new features but as there community driven (and client!), I think there for the best.

Trac

Paul — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:06:37 +0000

I have set-up Trac at trac.spensierato.net you can use your svn user names and passwords to login.
Please feel free to start uploading data, bug reports etc.

Roadmap to the future

Paul — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:38:02 +0000

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:

The current roadmap to Alpha 1 is to:

Get all of current elements fully working (Almost – needs testing)
Finish skins for each element in the XSLT (Think only Contact needs work)
Finialise installer (Almost done)
Security editing (Not started)

Alpha 2:

Sort skins to suport languages (Use defines etc)
Include extra skins and alternative.css
Menu Changes
Addition security models (If required?)
Setting editing
Search

Alpha 3:

Major skin updates to include ‘Zones of Content’

Alpha 4:

Drag and drop re-ordering of elements and menu

Spensierato Pre-Release 5

Paul — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:19 +0000

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.

SVN moved

Paul — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:38:08 +0000

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

Pre-Release 4

Paul — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:50 +0000

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

Spensierato Updates

Paul — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:59:17 +0000

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

Recent updates

Paul — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:09:11 +0000

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

Security

Paul — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:33:32 +0000

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.

Pre-Release 3

Paul — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:27:37 +0000

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.