I am approaching a point where I will need additional beta testers for the new version of Blogg-X.  The testers must have access to both Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5 version non production servers.

Please email me at admin (at) iobinary (dot) com and let me know your environment and if you will have a little extra time to use the newest version.  Also pass along your PHP and MySQL version installed on the test servers.

Thanks...

chris

First tests of development version of Blogg-X have been great. Initial version is working on Windows XP SP3, Mac OSX 10.5, and Ubuntu Linux (32 bit and 64 bit).

I will post more information in the future as things progress.

Thanks, chris

I've been away from Blogg-X and iobinary.com for far too long.  Things in real life have been very demanding and most of my attention had to be focused there.

I have again begun working on Blogg-X and would eventually like to change the technology that its based on from Java to a newer and more flexible technology.  I have got some initial tests done in a new framework that appears to be cross platform and may actually allow for a much better version of Blogg-X without all the hacks I've had to create to make up for Java's poor support of HTML.

I am going to have to spend some time working through posts in the forum and reviewing my old notes.  Also I most likely will release a version of Blogg-X for Joomla 1.5 but it will/must only be a compatiblity update and will not include any bug fixes.

Thanks...

Chris

Can you please send me the output of the phpinfo file that you can find in the administration panel of Joomla!. Please capture it some way and email it to admin at iobinary dot com. This may help me finally nail down what is blocking the XML-RPC communication that Blogg-X uses. If you are unfamiliar with the phpinfo command or just want more information here is a link to phpfreaks with some useful information.

Update (9-23-07) I have only recieved a couple phpinfo files and I haven't got a large enough range yet to start to figure out what the problem is. Once I get a few more in I should have a better picture of the problem. Thanks.

phpinfo

Thanks...

chris

You can find the Blogg-X 2.13 release on the downloads page. Please keep any comments in the forum. NOTE: this version has only been updated to support Joomla! 1.0.13 and is backward compatible with the older versions of Joomla!. Also there is a new mambot included which needs to be installed on all the sites that this new version will be communicating with.

Enjoy...

chris

I have successfully modified Blogg-X to connect and verify on a Joomla! 1.0.13 installation. I had to perform changes in both the Blogg-X Java code and also in the mambot. I am now modifying Blogg-X to allow the user to specify J! 1.0.13 installs in the settings dialog of the application so that the same version of Blogg-X will work with both the new J! 1.0.13 and continue to work with the older versions. Keep an eye out here for the new release. Note this release will only be of changes to support the new version of Joomla! and contain no other fixes at this time.

chris

Evidently Blogg-X has also been affected by the change in handling passwords that occurred with the Joomla 1.0.13 update.  As of now Blogg-X will NOT function correctly with this version because the password hash passed from Blogg-X to Joomla no longer works correctly and can't successfully validate against the Joomla database tables.  I am taking a look at the code and will provide an update once I have one available.

Also to those wishing to look at the source code for Blogg-X you can always find it in the directory to which Blogg-X is installed.  Specifically in the "source" folder and it does include the ".form" files for the NetBeans IDE.

I wanted to apoligize for my absence the last couple weeks. I have been in the process of moving from the southwest to northeast US, and buying a new house in the process. Between the unpacking, closing on the house, getting some new furniture and also starting a new job my spare time has been pretty much non existant. I think things have settled down enough again that I can resume my work here and provide some support in the forums.

In regards to the forums I will be turning off guest posting access because of a few spammers that have decided they liked my website. I really don't like locking the site down like this but every minute I spend deleting spam off the server is time I'm not working on code or helping out users. Most likely I will be locking down the frontpage comment section as well, but am going to try and hold off and see if they just decide to go away.

Anyway it's good to be back!!

chris