log

age author description
2011-04-18 Brian Neal Tweaking text on some registration templates.
2011-04-16 Brian Neal Fixing #202. Guard against an empty email recipient list to prevent mail errors. We log a warning if this happens.
2011-04-16 Brian Neal Tweak quoting for Markdown. Fixing #209.
2011-04-10 Brian Neal As a follow up to r447, use jQuery to vertically align the model checkboxes.
2011-04-10 Brian Neal Fixing #205; search result pagination wasn't including models. Created a custom model search form so that the query term and model selections would persist across pages.
2011-04-09 Brian Neal Fixing #204; added the ability to search on forum topics.
2011-04-07 Brian Neal Downloads admin improvements: don't filter by user or IP address. Made the is_public editable on the change list page.
2011-04-07 Brian Neal Created import scripts for downloads and download comments.
2011-04-02 Brian Neal Fixing #201; fix up the text a bit.
2011-04-02 Brian Neal Fixing #201; add a warning to the registration template about hotmail refusing sg101 mail.
2011-04-02 Brian Neal Fixing #177; added a view to display the last x active topics (where x is between 10 and 50). Added a link to the view on the forum query drop down.
2011-04-02 Brian Neal Fixes for #200; fix bug in deciding which forums have unread posts.
2011-04-01 Brian Neal Trying to fix #200; found a bug in the get_forum_unread_status() function. Added some db indexes.
2011-03-31 Brian Neal Cosmetic tweaks; break in download definition list; padding added for news story containers.
2011-03-27 Brian Neal Fixing #183; add instructions on the edit elsewhere links form to get your facebook user id.
2011-03-27 Brian Neal Fixing #199; redid the downloads so the user has more control about how to save the file.
2011-03-27 Brian Neal In support of #161; improve query performance of the feed view; also cache the feed view in urls.py.
2011-03-27 Brian Neal Fixing #198; add a media player to the podcast pages.
2011-03-26 Brian Neal Fixing #197; add a badge for photo of the day; forgot to add the camera icon.
2011-03-26 Brian Neal Fixing #197; add a badge for photo of the day.
2011-03-26 Brian Neal Fixing #193; reduce news query counts by grabbing tags and comment counts in bulk. Increased news items per page from 5 to 10.
2011-03-26 Brian Neal Fixing #196; add status messages in the admin after approving news and links.
2011-03-25 Brian Neal Fixing #195; don't escape text in plain text emails.
2011-03-25 Brian Neal Fixing grammar in a comment only.
2011-03-25 Brian Neal Fixing #192; cache some forum stats and have them be computed outside of the request/response cycle. Update the template tag to just read the cache.
2011-03-24 Brian Neal Fixing #186; after upgrading to Django 1.3, can remove the kludge on the cycle tag in the forums topic.html template.
2011-03-24 Brian Neal Another try at #191 after getting some good advice in a django-users thread.
2011-03-23 Brian Neal For #178; using the queued_search app to update the search index. Installed redis and dependencies.
2011-03-23 Brian Neal Another tweak to the forum feeds query; see #191.
2011-03-21 Brian Neal Fixing #175; add an auto-subscribe and auto-favorite forum topic feature. Added 2 flags to the user profile. Added 2 functions that are called on the post post-save signal that auto-favorite and auto-subscribe the post creator if they have requested this service.
2011-03-20 Brian Neal Fixing #190; calendar admin always reports 1 event being approved.
2011-03-19 Brian Neal For #191; r410 is wrong: it is returning the wrong posts. Rework. MySQL is not using an index on our query, and it is taking 10+ seconds. Replace this slow query with a loop that loops over the public forums, then sorts and returns the posts.
2011-03-19 Brian Neal Fixing #191; terrible performance on the combined forums RSS feed query. Use an .extra() clause to force the WHERE on a query to use the primary key.
2011-03-17 Brian Neal Revert r323. Send out forum topic subscription emails as people post. Don't limit them.
2011-03-16 Brian Neal For #187; tune forums RSS settings. Set TTL to 1 hour; return 30 forum posts instead of 10; cache feed for 15 minutes instead of an hour.
2011-03-16 Brian Neal Fixing #188; improve number of SQL queries for mark all forums read and add the button on the view topics with unread posts view.
2011-03-16 Brian Neal Fixing #189; 500 error when deleting forum topic subscription.
2011-03-09 Brian Neal Fixing #185; add a global forums catchup button.
2011-03-09 Brian Neal Humanize the forum stats by adding the intcomma filter.
2011-03-09 Brian Neal Adding a solid-background css class. Making the news stories use it to block out the rays.
2011-03-09 Brian Neal Added logic to the forums javascript that adds the proper CSS class (odd or even) to a new post.
2011-03-08 Brian Neal Trying a tweak to put background colors on posts in topics. Forgot to commit the css changes.
2011-03-08 Brian Neal Trying a tweak to put background colors on posts in topics.
2011-03-08 Brian Neal Fixing #156; improve upon the work done in r397. Use the forum last visit record if there is no topic last visit record.
2011-03-08 Brian Neal Fixing #184; fix typo in date template filter string that is causing the wrong date to be displayed on the max users online statistic.
2011-03-07 Brian Neal Fixing #156. Making it possible to goto the first unread post in a thread. Made the 'New' icon a link; when displayed on a topic, takes you to the first unread post.
2011-03-06 Brian Neal Improved the IRC view and block to point to instructions on how to get started with IRC.
2011-03-06 Brian Neal Added raw_id_fields for submitter on news stories and pending stories.
2011-03-06 Brian Neal Fixing #181; delete PM's if we can. Add ability for a sender to take back a PM if they delete it before it has been read.
2011-03-06 Brian Neal Adding some try/except around some key points in the code to protect against some IntegrityErrors. We log when these happens but otherwise keep going. Tickets: #160 and #169.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Updated the markdown help template for the new strikethrough and newline handling.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal For #176; cache the output of the latest poll block template tag.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Fixing #176; add a side block for current polls.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal To support #174; add a link to a store flat page on the base template.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Fixing #181; flagged comments need raw_id_fields for the user and comment foreign keys.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Minor cosmetic tweaks; center text in IRC block. Add a break after avatar on shout history view.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Following up on #168; redo some code to make it more DRY. Added a function on the profile to reset the text fields.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Fixing #170; clean old user and anonymous last visit records.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Changes to oembed to support vimeo.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Trying to fix #180 again. Changed the syntax for strikethrough to 3 dashes to make it less harder to do accidently.
2011-03-05 Brian Neal Fixed #158; Wrote a script to replace text in forum posts. Used it to fix up the beta.surfguitar101.com/media/ problem that came up during the initial conversion to the new site.
2011-03-04 Brian Neal Fixing #172; add a forums jump box.
2011-03-04 Brian Neal Fixing #155; adding some links to the mp3 comps in the base template.
2011-03-04 Brian Neal Fix 180; Add strikethrough capability to markdown via an extension. Also control in SVN the extensions we are using.
2011-03-04 Brian Neal Remove YouTube's web beacon.
2011-03-04 Brian Neal Fixing #179; provide links to sender & receiver profiles when viewing private messages. Also provided a legend on the inbox to state what bold and italic message titles mean.
2011-03-03 Brian Neal Trying out a markdown extension to hopefully fix #166.
2011-03-02 Brian Neal Fixing #163; make plain links linkable in Markdown. Use an extension found here: https://github.com/r0wb0t/markdown-urlize.
2011-03-02 Brian Neal Fixing #167: broken images on markdown cheat sheet.
2011-03-02 Brian Neal Fixing #173; display donors in order by date, ascending on the main view.
2011-03-02 Brian Neal Fix #171; forums weren't assigning badge ownership correctly when pre-fetching data.
2011-03-02 Brian Neal Fix #168; when nailing a spammer, clear their profile text fields. Guard against topics and forums that don't exist when deleting posts in the signal handler. Make the forum stats template tag only display the latest active users.
2011-03-02 Brian Neal Fixing #165: add a way to filter users in the admin by join date; add an admin action to approve a pending user; added a honeypot type field to the registration form.
2011-02-28 Brian Neal As part of #165 add a security question to the registration form.
2011-02-28 Brian Neal Fix #164; have the calendar display times in the user's time zone. If the user isn't logged in, just use US/Pacific. Default the calendar mode to agenda mode.
2011-02-27 Brian Neal Fix #162; make username larger in forum posts.
2011-02-27 Brian Neal Fixing #157; added goto the top of page intra-page links on forums and yahoo group templates.
2011-02-27 Brian Neal Moved the social block up higher, just below the main nav.
2011-02-27 Brian Neal Created a social side block so we can remove the obtrusive twitter bulletin.
2011-02-27 Brian Neal Fix #153. Update verbiage on the donations thanks template to meet Paypal guidelines for making it a auto-return page.
2011-02-26 Brian Neal Adding the sg101 IRC bot code to SVN. This code is pretty rough and needs love, but it gets the job done (one of my first Python apps). This fixes #150.
2011-02-26 Brian Neal Fix typo that referred to non-existant setting MAX_AVATAR_SIZE.
2011-02-26 Brian Neal Working around a strange CSS problem when bulletins are active. This should probably be investigated later. rollout
2011-02-26 Brian Neal Tweak tinyMCE config so it doesn't change URLs into relative URLs.
2011-02-26 Brian Neal Adding a robots.txt file.
2011-02-26 Brian Neal Adding a script I had to write on the fly to filter out posts from the posts csv file that had no parent topics. MyISAM let me get away with that, but InnoDB won't.
2011-02-25 Brian Neal Import from future with_statement for Python 2.5 in import_old_links and podcasts scripts.
2011-02-25 Brian Neal Added credit to Abe & Fady for testing on the colophon. Adjusted copyright on base.html.
2011-02-24 Brian Neal Committing DreadInBabylon's default avatar.
2011-02-24 Brian Neal Fixing #152; POTD was saving thumbnail every night and making tons of thumbnail directories all over. Also added thumbnail images in the admin.
2011-02-23 Brian Neal Various small changes to reduce database hits.
2011-02-22 Brian Neal Some optimizations to reduce database query times.
2011-02-22 Brian Neal Modified the implementation of the avatar tag to look for an attribute 'user_profile' on the user object. If present, this is assumed to be the profile. This improves the performance of the member list and some forum views.
2011-02-20 Brian Neal Adjusting the auto-complete to only require 1 character minimum before querying, and return 15 results instead of 10.
2011-02-20 Brian Neal New scheme for serving media files in debug mode after updating django trunk.
2011-02-20 Brian Neal Turning the django debug toolbar on again after updating django trunk.
2011-02-20 Brian Neal Fixing #149; adding the ygroup application: an archive of the old Yahoo Group messages.
2011-02-12 Brian Neal Fix #148; Django now requires AJAX posts to present the CSRF token. Added code suggested by Django docs to shoutbox.js. Since shoutbox.js is on every page, it should cover all cases.
2011-02-09 Brian Neal Fix bad grammar in comment.
2011-02-08 Brian Neal Removed a raise of CommandError, which was left over from when this code started life as a Django management command.
2011-02-08 Brian Neal Added a tool to translate the old Yahoo Group posts from JSON to CSV suitable for mysqlimport.
2011-02-05 Brian Neal Fix a bug where you'd get an error when trying to delete a forum thread (topic does not exist). Apparently when you call topic.delete() the posts would get deleted, but the signal handler for each one would run, and it would try to update the topic's post count or something, but the topic was gone? Reworked the code a bit and explicitly delete the posts first. I also added a sync() call on the parent forum since post counts were not getting adjusted.
2011-02-02 Brian Neal Updating home page text for #147. Several other minor tweaks; adding favicon.ico.
2011-01-30 Brian Neal Fixing #144; integrate with new Django logging support. Also added unit tests for Donations app.
2011-01-29 Brian Neal Oops, r336 was not right; I forgot to save the file before committing. Fixing that.
2011-01-29 Brian Neal The home page was taking 27 seconds to load; 99% of the time was being spent in the new_posts template tag query. Reworked it a bit to be much more sane.
2011-01-27 Brian Neal For #142; remove some unused media directories.
2011-01-27 Brian Neal Fixing #142; cut over to the django.contrib.staticfiles app.
2011-01-20 Brian Neal Fix #146; use new class-based generic views as function-based generic views are now deprecated.
2011-01-20 Brian Neal Fixing 145; New url tag behavior (forwards compatibility) in Django 1.3.
2011-01-17 Brian Neal Fixing #143; update to new cache settings.
2011-01-16 Brian Neal Fixing #141; cache badge ownership to reduce database hits when browsing forum topics.
2011-01-16 Brian Neal Fixing #97; adding a management command to remove old forum and topic last visit records.
2011-01-15 Brian Neal Fixing #109; make forum links more prominent by underlining them by default.
2011-01-15 Brian Neal Fixing #110; Removed the prompts for alt text & titles from img and link buttons in the markitup editor. This was confusing users.
2011-01-15 Brian Neal Fixing #123; removed the H1-H6 buttons from the markitup editor.
2011-01-15 Brian Neal Fixing #7. Adding a fixture for an about flatpage.
2011-01-15 Brian Neal Fixing #10; Adding a colophon flatpage.
2011-01-13 Brian Neal Fixing #140; limit topic notification emails to at most 1 per day, or more if the user visits the topic.
2011-01-11 Brian Neal Fixing #135; adjusted cache timeout value to 60 seconds.