Yesterday my hosting company upgraded the software library that I use to allow OpenID logins to stikis. Unfortunately, this new version was not compatible with the version I have been using previously. This resulted in errors for users trying to log in using OpenID identities.
To fix the problem, I have ‘frozen’ the library I use to the last compatible version.
Apologies to any users who were affected by this.
It’s been a busy few months for me. In January, I left Australia to come to Denmark to take up a job at the University of Southern Denmark. I’m living in a place called Sønderborg in the south of Denmark, near the German border. It’s a remarkably beautiful area, with sea close by, a lovely forest, and fields of wheat. The job is exciting and stimulating and I get to work with wonderful colleagues.
At about the time that I left Australia, Rails 1.2.1 was released. While not quite as significant for me as moving to another continent, this new version of Rails did have some nice features. In particular, support for REST-style web services is built right in to the framework. Although this was great, nice and wonderful all at once, it also meant a lot of work for me, because I’d previously been using a plug-in to provide this support and that plug-in wasn’t really compatible with the new way of doing things. I ended up having to rewrite entire parts of the application in order to upgrade.
It took a long time, but this week, I finally was able to put my changes up and upgrade to the newest version of rails. My aim with this update was simply to replicate the code that was already there, so there weren’t many new features in it. However, there were a couple of small things that I think are worth mentioning.
Next week:
From now on, I hope to keep much shorter development cycles. I plan to make an update at least once a week (see the ‘Iceberg model’ article from a couple of days ago). In fact, I’ve already been able to push another update which allows you to rename your pages. In the coming week, I plan to work on the Edit Pane and make it so you can add some simple formatting to stiki text. Being able to make text in stikis bold is one of the most requested features and I’ve been itching to get stuck into it for a long time, so it should be fun.
Update: I already got something working in Firefox. Shorter development cycles here we come!
I’ll be pushing an update within the next hour (before 20:00 GMT) that will allow you to rename stiki pages. The update is quite small, so I don’t anticipate any down-time. I’ll post an update once the update is live.
Update: the update went off without a hitch and is now live. If you go to your list of pages, stikis.com/pages, you should see a link labelled ‘rename’ to the right of each page. Clicking this link will take you to a form where you can type a new title for the page.
More information is available from the following help topics:
I’ll be taking the site off-line later tonight to push an update. Hopefully the maintenance won’t take longer than half an hour.
Update: I’ve completed the maintenance and the site is back up. It took a lot longer than I anticipated - three hours instead of half an hour. Apologies for any inconvenience. I’ll write about the update some more later this week.