It's a lot of time i did not update this blog; AVBlog is now working for my blogs and i've decided to take alle the time i need in order to build the 2.0 version.

There not many working installations out there and so i think that really does not make sense to build and develop solutions that i really do not need for my personal needs; said that AVBlog 2.0 will be out after the summer and it will be really something different from now.

In these months i've developed a whole new CMS / Blog platform for my internal needs and this will be the basic of the AVBlog 2.0 release; so good bye to xml storage (it works nice, all of my blogs actually use them, but as the new application use DB it's a waste of time to try to make it using xml too) but welcome some nice features like the new skinning feature.

So when AVBlog 2.0 will be realesed it will be a CF8 only application (i really love the new version and i'm using Ajax, Imaging and PDF features a lot); there will be obviously an upgrade function (hey, i've many blogs on AVBlog 1.5) and there will be new architecture and new features; the first site to use the new system will be www.cfmentor.com that will be reloaded using AVBlog 2.0 by september. After that (october) i'll finally release AVBlog 2.0.

 

On 7 of April i released CFWidgets 0.8; you can download them from here:

http://cfwidgets.riaforge.org/

It's a collection of Coldfusion Custom Tags that allow to Coldfusion developers to build rich Ajax interfaces (using the Dojo library) with minum (or null) javascript code.

AVBlog 2.0 will be heavily based on the widgets and i plan to release a 1.0 release of them only when the new AVBlog will be out.

Note that although the version is 0.8 you can safety use most of the custom tags, examples are provided but documentation is still not present. If you need to go further keep in mind that my custom tags are only a wrapper of Dojo, so when you use them you'll also have the power and the flexibility of the Dojo toolkit and you can use it directly for things that the custom tags can not still allows.

Actually i'm deeply involved in the development of AVBlog 2.0.

I'm not still able to give a date for an Alpha release but, if you need or if you want a specific feature, please
let me know your requests.

Feel free to leave a comment here or to write in the mailing list (or to write directly to me) with your needs so
i could try to develop them in time for the 2.0 release.

I've just uploaded a first fully functionally demo of CFWidgets; you can see it at this url:

http://www.veggiani.it/projects/cfwidgets/demo/index.cfm

I developed some custom tags that's wrap some of the Dojo widgets and functionality and allow the CF developer to build rich Ajax interfaces without writing Javascript code. These CT are still in development but in the demo you can get an idea of what's possible to build with them.

I've created CT for these Dojo widgets:

• Accordion
• ContentPane
• FloatingPane
• Menu
• Dialog
• SplitContainer
• TitlePane
• Wizard
• Effects

and some other tags like <cf_wa> wich emulate the HTML <a> tag but that allow to load the result of the target attributes inside a ContentPane using XHR or <cf_wform> and <cf_wsubmit> that allow form submission using XHR calls.

I hope to release a firsrt downloadable version of the project soond, i miss still some documentation, meanwhile let me know what do you think about this stuff.

I just released the 1.5.1 version of AVBlog.

AVBlog now comes in three versions:

1. AVBlog: The full featured version, it has all plugins and external software (located in the /external and /plugins folder) with a size of 5.290 KBytes.
   
2. AVBlog Lite: It has no plugins and only Dojo in the /external folder (so you can use Ajax features) with a size of 2.215 KBytes
   
3. AVBlog Basic: It has no plugins and no external software (so no Ajax too) with a size of 1.245 KBytes

Upgrading or downgrading from one version to another is simple as the only thing to do is to delete or to add some folders.

This version fix many bugs you pointed out, i tested it on Railo and Blue Dragon too and it works just fine, a part from a search engine problem that still exists if you use XML as storage with Railo.

Please let me know for any other problem you can find, remember that the SVN is the right place to find the latest versions and to use the Google Code facilities for Issue tracking and submission.

Really nothing to worry about :)

Only that today i've find some problems using Railo and i decided to delay the release of two days in order to get the time to have the 1.5.1 version to work well with Railo.

Sorry Perry for the delay, if you just can't wait and want the software write to me; unless you do not use Railo i can send you the new version.

The AVBlog Lite version will be out on the 01/18 too, it will not include any plugin or external software (like FCKeditor and so on) apart from Dojo as it's used for the Ajax stuff in this blog.

I'm considering the idea of releasing a further version without dojo and to call it AVBlog basic; it seems complex to have three releases but in AVBlog it simply mean to leave out some folders.

Version 1.5.1 contains several fixes (thanks to all who helped me in testing and finding these errors).

Main fixes:

• Photoblog now works on linux too
  
• Oracle scripts fixed
• Caching mechanism fixed
• Improved performance using XML

On the same date i'll release AVBlog Lite too, it will have no Ajax and plugins, only a basic but full featured blog application.

I've finally release the 1.5 version of AVBlog.

If you're interested please click here to download it.

The SVN is update and the last good revision is the 85, you can access it from here http://code.google.com/p/avblog/source.

In the SVN you'll find two folders, one is for AVBlog 1.5 and it will contain only fixes to the existing code, all new features will now
be implemente in the AVBlog 2.0 folder on wich i'll start to work in the next days.

The 1.5 release is a very big one, probably the new features worh a major release but i've decided to keep the original idea of making
the 2.0 release something tied to the multiuser and community aspects.

AVBlog Lite 1.5 will be out very soon, indeed if you're in a hurry than you can make a Lite insall simply removing the plugins folder and
the external folder (in this case no Ajax at all), or just wait some days.

I've to thanks all the people who have helped me to test AVBlog in the last days, AVBlog is big and it should work on so many platforms
and DB (or without DB) that's really difficult to test all well; so if you've problems or question please write me.

Enjoy my software and let me know if you're using it so i can update my list.

AVBlog 1.5 will be release on 19 November.

During this month i fixed many bugs thanks to some testers and i've also introduced some new things:

• image rotation on the Photoblog Plugin.
• code syntax highlighter thanks to dp.SyntaxHighlighter (if you use FCKeditor it will be a select with the highlighter to use).
• microsummary support
• performance enhancements on CF7 using XML
• as regard Dojo the new o.4 version will not be used by AVBlog, there are some important differences in the two versions so i decide to not include it unless i've published my CFWIDGET project (wich AVBlog use in it's alpha form).

As always, remember to use SVN repository if you want to have latest code:

http://code.google.com/p/avblog/source

I've updated the support to the rich text editors of AVBlog with the latest versions of:

• FCKeditor 2.3.2
• TinyMCE  2.0.7

and i've decided to include also CFFM - ColdFusion File Manager from Rick Root (that can be used from both the editors above) in order to allow to users to have a true file manager for uploading images and whatsoever content they want.

On tuesday Dojo 1.4 will be presented, so i'll check it and i'll see if use it or leave the 0.3 version inside of AVBlog.

I'm very near to release AVBlog 1.5 (hope to have it ready for Halloween) and i'd like to implement some new skins.

Can someone help me providing links or, better, made some CSS for me?

I'm searching nothing special but i'd like to have some nice skins to offer with the final versione of the software.