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Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.4.2

stormerider — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:06:11 +0000

Releasing version 0.4.2– apparently my code for 0.4.1 was missing the bit of code to actually store the option value that was tracking the database schema version. This was the culprit for the error message:

WordPress database error:[Duplicate column name 'meter_updated'] ALTER TABLE `wp_progress_meters` ADD `meter_updated` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

You’ll likely get the error once more but then it should disappear on the next page load. Many apologies for the wait for the corrected version.

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Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.4.2 (Added missing call to update_option().)

Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.4

stormerider — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:40:49 +0000

Releasing 0.4 right after 0.3 since I had time to get the widget done earlier than I had expected.

Update: I just noticed a glitch in how the database upgrade scripts process and had to rework it a bit, so I’ve rerolled 0.4.1. I’ve added in a variable to track the database schema version number as well as the plugin version number, so future upgrades should go smoothly on this front.

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Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.4.1 (Now includes an integrated widget for user convenience.)

Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.3

stormerider — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:31:39 +0000

New version of the Progress Meters… fixing the WP-MU bug I mentioned earlier. Thanks to the folks over at Authors Abode for helping me isolate the bug and bearing with me while I fixed it. Next version will include the widget.

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Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.3 (Supports WP-MU properly)

Morgan’s Progress Meters 0.1

stormerider — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:18:26 +0000

I’m releasing 0.1 of the Progress Meters. I think it still needs some work (there have been some reports of some erratic behavior under WP-MU that I haven’t had a chance to track down yet), but I think that this is a good first release.

Version 0.2 should include the widget functionality to make things easier.

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Morgan’s Progress Meters version 0.1

Progress Meters

stormerider — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:20:20 +0000

Since I mentioned the progress meter code port… here’s how it’s looking right now:

I’m going to take a break from working on this right now as the cold I have is making it hard to concentrate.

State of the Hacker…

stormerider — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:16:00 +0000

WordPress 2.1 changed how the links were stored in the database so the drop-down links widget will not work with WP 2.1. I’ll be rolling a new version soon. Things have been pretty busy for me lately (see my LiveJournal for more information) but I’ll try to get this going as soon as possible. I’m really digging WP 2.1, so I’m looking to get all my widgets updated for it.

I’m also going to be branching out into developing some pure WP plugins, rather than just sticking to widgets. I’m going to take some of the writer’s tools I’ve developed for Evolution Writers and make them into WP plugins (like the WIP manager, the progress meters, etc.). They’ll support WP-MU as well, and I’ll be installing them over on my MU install at Authors Abode.

I’ve also been developing a LUA add-on for World of Warcraft called UFActionBars (Unit Frame Action Bars) which is basically a replacement for the defunct Group Buttons mod that died– along with a slew of so very many others– with the launch of 2.0.

I’m also working on StormChat again. Now that the server move has been completed I’ve moved the CVS repository over and started work on cleaning up the code (again). I’ve written a quick, off-the-cuff FAL to get it to work with WordPress for the wife and will be expanding it to work nicely with WP-MU so I can install it on Authors Abode as well.

I still haven’t had a chance to dig up documentation on how to localize widgets/plugins in WordPress. If any readers happen to have a bookmark they can toss me, that’d be much appreciated. Thanks!