Tim Groeneveld

In around six hours (in other words, in 24 hours, knowing me) I am going to be releasing an update to Galium, which will finally allow (after how many weeks?) using the name servers from the top level domain, but allowing users to specify their own DNS records. In other words, DNS records would be hosted by us, which would remove the need for glue servers in some cases.

Also, in other news, the .gopher and the .geek top level domains either are – or will soon be – powered by Galium! Next step; world domination!

The new version of MyBanco will be out within the next few hours, boasting a few new handy features, such as:

• An installer, which will insert the SQL dump into MySQL automatically.
• A few minor bugs fixed.
• Patches for SMF to enable the ability for people people to gain money for posting on a forum.

Watch this spot

ShareSource will finally get propper RSS feeds! After how long? There has been site news RSS feeds for quite a while in ShareSource. All you have to do is add the feed http://sharesource.org/api/rss/site.rss, but this update will actually mean that there is support for RSS feeds with project news, commit updates and much, much more!

The push date that will add support for cool RSS will be the 16th August 2008!

See you when you get there

In the past few days, I have been working on making ShareSource a little more search engine (and in some cases user friendly).

The changes all round are pretty minor, but they were necessary things that had to be done, as Google Webmaster Tools said that ShareSource had around 3,000 pages with the same title!

Well, most of the changes have been pushed to the live server, and include changes such as:

• The commits log showing what page you are on if the page is not page one.
• The ShareSource project Search showing the query that you have made.
• Project file releases have a nicer title … which is based on the project’s info.
• Screenshots is similar, all screenshots now have a (pretty) unique title
• The ShareSource Wiki knows that it sometimes needs to ditch useless parts of it’s URL, so it redirect to a better, nicer and shorter URL
• Fixed a few spelling mistakes again (like facilies => facilities on the home page!)
• Fixed a few broken URL’s on the project link bar.

Did I mention that is only the top seven? Plenty more changes were made as well as those.

The fact of the matter is now ShareSource will be a nicer place for search engines to crawl. The aim is also that the site will now get a bit of a bigger Google Rank, because there is no more duplicated content on the ShareSource site.

# diffstat mybanco-0.03-to-0.04.patch
CHANGELOG               |  4 ++++
Skins/Simple/Simple.php | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
backend/index.php       | 28 ++++++++--------------------
backend/test.php        |  7 +++++++
libs/MyInfo-Client.php  |  7 +++----
5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Mainly a bugfix release. Fixes the following issues:

• Data sent to MyInfo is now always unescaped.
• Nice pretty runtime errors for MyBanco.
• The right MyInfo server is now always selected.

Most of these are changes I have made because of errors that were seen on dr-spangle’s local install of MyBanco. You can download either the update package (14KB) or the entire package (200KB) at the MyBanco website.

My Galium top level domain software will get a minor update soon, which will fix a few [minor] outstanding issues.

• Usernames can now contain the “-” character
• The zone file generator will not always give the outputted revision as being “0″ (this stopped all updates from not appearing on slave DNS servers until the following update on the next day … bad).
• The cron that generates the zone file now reloads bind!

I will release this version as soon as it’s commited, and then begin working on the ability to add A, MX and a few other types of records. At the moment it only works via glues.

UPDATE: the new version of Galium was released, and can be downloaded from http://sharesource.org/project/galium/files/136/