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Well, I'm proud to say I just helped Raymond release a new version of BlogCFC—version 5.9.3.000. Hopefully the "Switzer" edition doesn't become known as the version that made BlogCFC jump the shark. :)

A lot of the mods I contributed were related to the XML-RPC stuff, since I post almost exclusively from Live Writer and only go into the Admin when I need to set up related entries. However, one change that I think everyone might like is I added a "Comments" tab to the entry page. I added this to my version of BlogCFC way back in November of 2007 because I found I was usually trying to find comments related to a specific entry and they were hard to find via the normal comments page.

Here's a summary of the changes:

• Updates/simplification of file pathing determination
• XML-RPC updates (yes, I did test these myself, I don't suck) ;)
• Admin has a nicer warning when settings/cache is updated
• When you edit an entry, you get immediate access to the comments (new "Comments" tab)
• Ability to view an unreleased entry on the blog. This lets an admin see how an entry will REALLY look w/o having to release it.
• Code coloring updates (the blue HTML tag color and Attribute color were so close they looked identical, so I gave the HTML tag a color that adds better contrast)
• HTML entities are cleaned out of the Subject of e-mails and removed from the title shown in the e-mails (probably only an issue if you use a WYSIWYG Blog editor)

Posted by Dan on Apr 1, 2009 @ 11:37 PM

One thing that really irks me about Google's implementation of IMAP is that when you "delete" a message in Outlook, it doesn't move the message to Google's "Trash", but instead just removes all the labels. Since Gmail doesn't have a good way to view just unlabelled messages, it makes it a pain to clean things up. The only thing I've found that really works is to build a huge search filter excluding all my labels—which is horrible.

Google would make my life easier by implementing too small changes:

1. Provide for a single search filter for find all unlabeled messages
2. Move unlabeled messages from IMAP into the Trash can (or at least make this an option I can configure.)

Posted by Dan on Apr 1, 2009 @ 10:58 PM

Well, I logged in to my Google Apps mail tonight and Google finally decided to roll out "Themes" to my Gmail. I'm not sure why it took them so long, but at least it's hear. What's really weird is most of the other "Lab" tools seem to arrive pretty much in sync with everyone else—but they really waited to give me access to the Themes.

Anyway, I can finally change up my Gmail mailbox!

Posted by Dan on Apr 1, 2009 @ 10:35 PM