Slashcode v1.0 Released

Patrick and Chris have been working their kung fu overtime for some time now to clean up Slashcode and release a version one point oh. Its available on Slashcode: if you're interested in setting up your own slashdotesque weblog and are up on mod_perl and apache, you'll enjoy it. With 1.0 out, its time to once again start hammering on new features including wireless device support. I hacked in quickie WAP device support, so if your phone handles it, give it a whirl. Avantgo will be coming soon as well, along with many design improvements that will drastically improve performance (thank god!) and simplify administration, and allow usage on a variety of SQL servers.

Comments

Re:slashcode translations

[Kurt Gray]

Not yet -- Slashdot has a lot of tweaks that have to be massaged out but during the next few weeks it will be upgraded to 1.0, then once Slashdot is on 1.0 code base it will stay in synch with the latest-greatest Slash release. I think Slashcode is running on 1.0.

Database Independant Backend...

[Matts]

This is a shameless plug, but can I suggest you guys take a look at DBIx::AnyDBD. It's a module I wrote to greatly simplify making cross db perl DBI applications.

The basics are that you put all your db access methods in a Default.pm file (in the class hierarchy of your choosing). Then when you want to port to a new platform, anything that's different to your original development platform goes in [Driver].pm, where [Driver] is one of Sybase or Oracle or Pg, etc.

This has really simplified things for me on a cross platform development system, and I think it will for slashdot (and other systems) too.

Mail me direct if you have any questions.

Kung Fu

[Glytch]

Am I the only one who has visions of two programmers talking out of sync with their mouth movements?

"Huh. So you wish. To review my code. You must be eager. To die. Huh."

slashcode translations

[rnd()]

When I loaded slashdot this morning, did
I load a page generated by slash 1.0? That is
the question.