If you're having problems with Time Machine on Leopard, such as any of the following:

• Volume at path /Volumes/(backup drive name) does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer.
• Backup failed with error: 18
• Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out!

then you might just want to change the USB cable.

Archive Plugin 1.2 is now in the downloads. This is, I think, the first plugin to use AJAX-style features for Geeklog. Try it out.

Archive is a very flexible plugin, that allows you to pull together various items from other plugins, creating a database on any theme you like.

I've sent the code for Links 1.1 off to Dirk for checking, so if all goes well you should soon see hierarchical categories in Links. There are a few issues to be sorted out first though, so may not be an immediate release. Then I can focus on other things in the following order:

1) Archive - user access issues to be sorted out
2) Things to do - needs a general overhaul and update
3) Ewiki - user access issues, security check and update
4) Rating - Tom is working on this, so I won't be doing much - just checking for bugs for him
5) Something new. Several rather revolutionary new ideas are on the way for a company a friend and I are setting up here in Tokyo. Watch this space!

Gnode seems a little difficult conceptually - mainly how to make it useful for other plugins. Once I have a few others going, I'll come back to it.

There was a bounty issued for subcategories in the Links plugin, and the core developers are talking about setting the main plugins free to encourage more participation.

Taking this opportunity, I'm adding the subcategories from Glinks into Links, and then I'm going to kill off Glinks - one less thing to maintain, now that I have so much else going on, and it will mean I can spend more time on the other plugins without that nagging feeling of guilt at the back of my mind that I should be doing something...

The archive plugin is available in the downloads section. Please try this out and send any feedback to the email address in the documentation, or in the forum here or on Geeklog.net.

Enjoy!

I've just written an "Archive" plugin for someone.

It's quite simple, but very powerful. The quickest way to understand, is to look at it here. If you want to try it out, register and have a bash. (That is, logged in users are able to edit items).

Well, it's been a while. I've been busy with my PhD, but finding a little time recently to do a little programming too. I'm working on Gnode, a hierarchical category manager (or node manager) for Geeklog. It won't do anything itself, but will provide functionality for other plugins to use.

The second beta of the rating plugin is in the downloads section. To upgrade, just overwrite the php files. There have been no database changes.

There are still a few more things to do yet, but I promised a release this weekend so I thought I'd put this out for your pleasure and entertainment. Let me know if you have any comments.

Going down for a site update any minute now....

... geeklog core updated
... lib-custom and languages updated
( ... forum is not happy - deal with later ... )
... downloads OK
... rating plugin OK
... glinks plugin OK
... added rating to staticpages
... temporary theme set
... ewiki plugin OK
... index page only shows single language articles when no topic selected
... forum plugin OK

To do

- new theme