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I've tweaked Nucleus' draft system to my needs so I can upload articles in a rough draft form so Sean can edit them before posting them ''live.'' This differs from Nucleus' default use of drafts where only the author can see their own drafts. I also tweaked the ''bookmarklet'' editing window so it can handle and finalize drafts.

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[ 25 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

That was much simpler than anticipated. Read more if you want the nerdy details.

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[ 24 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

Well, I've finally gotten to encounter the differences some of the various browsers have when dealing with CSS and I'll have to do a little tweaking. So far it mainly looks like I'll have to widen the Search button and work out a 3 pixel buffer on the left side of the menu to account for the IE6 3 pixel float buffer.

[ 23 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

ZIP (and RAR, just in case) file uploading's allowed and simple and I axed the stupid date being prepended to uploaded files so ZIP names won't get super ugly; if I update a file I'll have to go delete it before reuploading, but maybe I can change things so I can overwrite on upload just for the file storage folder...

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[ 23 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

I think things are shaping up quite nicely around here. The color scheme's now a nice steel blue (well, plus a lot of grey) and I think I have all of the kinks worked out of the post formatting. I threw in a new-item-indicator for posts but I haven't really been able to test it yet; I made the same icon that I use to mark new posts be the site's favicon.

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[ 22 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

Well, I spent like 6 hours hammering away at the site's CSS files and resorting to a very awesome kludge (on the site's backend) to get the posts displaying how I want. I probably should've slept but that can wait until later.

This picture showcases the automatically generated thumbnail and popup images.

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[ 21 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 6 ]

Thanks for your interest in Pocket App Review. As is fairly obvious, things are starting to shape up around here; the posting system is in place and the backend for the various parts of the site are getting assembled. Some simple security testing has yielded positive results.

Well, back to work for me. PAR will be up and running shortly!

[ 17 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

Scores are on the traditional letter grading scale from A+ to F with C being average (but still acceptable). I'm using this scale to give proper granularity for software that's worthwhile, while keeping the lowest of scores rather general.

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[ 06 February, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]