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FlexLists Update
09 05 2008, Michiel van Vlaardingen in FlexListsAs I announced two days ago, we are in the process of turning FlexLists into a BloxDB light. As we feel the new GUI is much better, I have moved it to the actual site for all of you to enjoy. The most important changes:
- Tabs on the right with 'Share', 'Configure', etc.
- Slightly different color scheme
- Delete multiple items at once
- Detail view no longer duplicates the fields shown in the main list
- Drop down menu's to hide less used options such as 'delete list'
- Need to be signed up to create a list (This removes the need to explain how to return to your own list)
- Use email to share the URLs is now preferred over direct linking (People tend to loose those URLs if you don't mail them)
Towards BloxDB
07 05 2008, Michiel van Vlaardingen in FlexListsThis weblog has been quite for a while. The main reason is that we are working on some new projects and libraries. A project that we announced a few months ago is BloxDB. Unfortunately we were not yet able to put a lot of effort in it, so you will have to wait a bit more for the release. BloxDB will target it as an upgrade to FlexLists. As we want to make the transition as easy as possible, we are now in the process of moving FlexLists a bit towards, what we could say is a BloxDB light. It will have the same interface for the data as BloxDB, but with less features.
For those of you interested in the latest developments, it is available online at: new.flexlists.com it uses the same data as the FlexList site, so you can login using your existing account. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Really beta software
04 03 2008, Michiel van Vlaardingen in TeamspinnerIt just became very clear that Teamspinner is still beta software: it was not working at all in Internet Explorer. We are very sorry for this and hope that those encountering these problems will give it another try.
If you would like to know more about the actual JavaScript problem that caused this massive failure I have written an article about it on my personal blog.
Spin Faster
01 03 2008, Michiel van Vlaardingen in TeamspinnerYou might like Teamspinner because it is so simple and wiki-like. However, it was still not as simple as many available wikis. So to make you work even faster we have added two things: Default Page setup: Instead of creating empty pages, by default a new page will get Text, Files and Comment blocks. And the second one, to make it into an actual wiki: If you type [[Pagename]] in the text area, it will transform into a link to the page with the same name. Not much special, but we hope it helps to make everything just a bit smoother.
Clone Your Lists
01 03 2008, Michiel van Vlaardingen in FlexListsSo you created a nice FlexList for your niche application. And now you want the same thing again? Up till today you had to recreate all those fields from scratch. Based upon a request of one of our users we introduced a 'Copy this list' button what does exactly that: create a new list with the same fields. So once you've got a project management list that works, you can use it for all your projects, by cloning it.
Delete Comments
14 02 2008, Michiel van Vlaardingen in PicturePushSometimes the time is exactly right to implement a certain feature. This week we got three requests to be able to remove comments from an image. Of course it should have been possible already, but it wasn't. Therefore we have now implemented this trivial feature. You can delete your own comments plus all comments on your images.
Furthermore, I have restructured the menu a bit. It should now better present what is really important.
30 01 2008: Progress
28 01 2008: VoteLists cleaned
04 01 2008: Growing pains
11 12 2007: Guest Passes
05-12-2007: Advertising
22 11 2007: What's Next?
16 11 2007: Unexpected downtime :(
27 10 2007: New Skins
23 10 2007: Windows Hosting
18 10 2007: More Support
12 10 2007: More Cleaning
11 10 2007: Time to clean up
09 09 2007: Start Your Own PicturePush?
27 09 2007: Track your Changes
26 09 2007: Attention to Teamspinner
18 09 2007: Fresh Design
20 07 2007: Xinu tool
16 07 2007: Screen Space
13 07 2007: Did it make you angry?
06 07 2007: Tag everything
05 07 2007: Win a Canon Digital Photo Camera
13 06 2007: PicturePush Uploader Beta
22 05 2007: Photo and Video Categories
05 05 2007: Do YOU get FlexLists?
30 04 2007: Better FlexLists Lists
26 04 2007: Redesign : part 1
19 04 2007: PicturePush Milestone: 41148
18 04 2007: Comming Soon: PicturePush Upload Tool
30 03 2007: Structuring CSS Files
23 03 2007: Unexpected Downtime
16 03 2007: User Interface Tuning
13 03 2007: Book Suggestions
12 03 2007: Improved PicturePush Search
12 03 2007: Sharing VoteLists
09 03 2007: VoteLists again
09 03 2007: How does a nerd promote a cool, feature rich, non marketed website?
08 03 2007: PicturePush Milestone
01 03 2007: Something Extra
24 02 2007: Doubles
22 02 2007: Expected downtime
17 02 2007: Remove the Ads
16 02 2007: Comments
16 02 2007: Broken Special Characters
31 01 2007: Oh no... forgotten...
30 01 2007: My case for using plain PHP
25 01 2007: Pictures first
21 01 2007: WebDAV support
29 12 2006: Speeding up PicturePush
25 12 2006: List the lists
24 12 2006: FlexLists updates
20 12 2006: Effective website monitoring
09 12 2006: Consyn Form validation
22 08 2006: Small Annoyances
18 08 2006: Simple Project Management with FlexLists
17 08 2006: Moving pictures
07 08 2006: More on PicturePush
31 07 2006: Adding AJAX with the Consyn Framework
24 07 2006: Improving PicturePush
13 07 2006: What has been keeping us busy?
02 06 2006: We are still moving
05 04 2006: Tight schedules
30 03 2006: No specs?
27 03 2006: Moving Labs starring E-lab and 2Vi