Mike Schramm over at TUAW has put together a great review of the Hahlo 3 Beta. http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/25/tuaw-previews-hahlo-3-the-legendary-edition/
Archive for April, 2008
Hahlo 3 Beta Testing • 2
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A couple of days ago I asked for some beta testers for Hahlo Version 3 via Twitter, if you haven’t already, and you would like to try out the latest “bleeding” version of “Hahlo 3 - Legendary Edition” then drop me a line at beta@hahlo.com and I’ll provide you with more details. It’s definitely worth a look.
While you’re at it, have a read of John Gruber’s thoughts about the current crop of Twitter webapps…and finally someone who agrees with me about Thincloud’s abuse of the Twitter logo.
New Leaders seem to have recently renamed Thincloud to the rather scammy-sounding “Twitter for iPhone”. They use Twitter’s logo and name in such a way that, unless you read the light-gray small print in the footer on their web site — which small print is not displayed when viewing the web site on an actual iPhone — creates the impression that you’re looking at some sort of official Twitter iPhone interface. - daringfireball.net
Yeah…What he said.
What do you want in Hahlo v3? • 0
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So last night, spurred on a little by some feedback that I received via Tony, I began work on Hahlo v3. I’ve already got a bunch of ideas after a quick brainstorming session on the bus ride home from work, but what I really want to know is what YOU want from Hahlo. I can’t promise that I’ll implement everyones ideas, but I’ll try my best. Post your idea or request here!
Plugin Status Update • 3
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Over the last year or so I’ve released several plugins for WordPress. Some of the were adaptations of existing plugins, some were built from the ground up, some have been updated and some…well…haven’t. The release of WP2.5 gives me a good opportunity to take a look at what plugins (other than Fluency as I think I’ve covered it enough on here in the last month or so) I have released, and what their future holds.
Ultimate Category Cloud
Current Version: 3.0
Development Status: 4.0 is in progress.
Next Release: Before the end of April.
While this is relatively simple plugin, it took me a while to get the basics working as I had originally intended them too. The first release was quite buggy to say the least, which was the main reason that v2 follow fairly soon after. I was happy enough with v2 not to update it any further, until WP2.3 came out and changed the way that categories were handled. I updated UCC to v3, bringing WP2.3 compatibility, along with some much need “cleansing” of my code, the removal of unneeded cruft, basically it was an overall refinement.
I’ve recently started work on v4.0 which will add (much needed) widget support which will make it even easier for users to add to their blogs, I’ve also sorted out a few oddities in the code which have been there since v2.
Twitt-Twoo
Current Version: 1.1
Development Status: Next version will be rebuilt from the ground up.
Next Release: TBA.
Originally built to ‘scratch an itch’ because while there were plenty of Twitter plugins out there I couldn’t find a nice simple one to do what I wanted, which was display my status in the sidebar, and allow me to update it from there as well. One of the biggest flaws with this plugin is that I built it to work with Redoable, but didn’t really bother checking it with any other theme (very bad I know). From what I’ve seen it still works relatively ok with some themes, but in some cases its just totally broken.
The plan is to rebuild it from the ground up using some of the knowledge that I gained from building Hahlo. I’m considering a ‘rebranding’ of this plugin to ‘Hahlo Widget’ or something along those lines. The basic functionality will most likely remain the same, but with better support for a sidebar widget, and an updated options page.
modMunch
Current Version: 1.0.r1
Development Status: None at the moment.
Next Release: TBA.
This was knocked together very quickly, with minimal testing, and as a result it works…sometimes. It could do with a lot of cleaning up, and I would like to make it easier to install and set up, so I will try and update it in the next couple of months.
Rechucked Buttons
Current Version: 1.0
Development Status: Current version is totally busted…..
Next Release: TBA…if ever.
Like Twitt-Twoo this only really worked properly with Redoable. When it broke (I can’t recall which WordPress version that was) I pretty much decided to abandon it altogether, however now that WordPress has switched to TinyMCE (which they say is pluggable) I might take another look at this in the future. Of course high on the list would be making sure it works no matter what theme you are using, beyond that who knows.
Redo-Recent-Links
Current Version: 1.0-beta
Development Status: Umm…
Next Release: Never, sorry.
I haven’t touched this since I released it, I only actually used it myself for a bout a month before I got annoyed with how badly it worked. This was based on another plugin that I found, but I modified it to work with Redoable (bit of trend appearing…). I’m sure there are plenty of much better alternatives out there now, so I’m going to official declare this one dead. DNR.
CaptainPlanet
Current Version: unreleased
Development Status: 1.0-very-very-very-alpha
Next Release: When the powers combine…
Without going into great detail (I’ll save that for when its released), CaptainPlanet is basically a ‘lifestream’ manager for your WordPress blog. Plans are to support a number of popular feeds, which are aggregated (and archived…) for display on you site. Will have an awesome ‘manage’ screen (one of the few bits thats actually working correctly at the moment), and also makes use of the new ‘shortcode’ API in WP2.5. Will also have several built in function that will do away with the need for some of the JS callbacks I currently use for things like Twitter and Flickr.
Fluency Admin v1.1 Available Now • 26
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Happy April Fool’s Day everyone! I had planned to play a prank on my visitors (I even had the post all written up) but I thought this would be better.
This is no joke, as promised Fluency v1.1 is now fully compatible with the stable release of WordPress 2.5. Thank you to all those who provided feedback and bug reports which helped iron out most things, and huge thank you to the 5,100+ people who download v1.0 (in just 20 days). Remember if you have any issues, jump over to the forum or the bug tracker and let me know. If I don’t know about a problem I can’t fix it.
Theres no new features as such, but a lot of “fixes” for things that changed between WP2.5-RC1 and the final release of 2.5. From big things like the “Add Media” modal dialogs now being styled correctly, to the smallest detail like adding 2 extra pixels of padding to an element. I won’t list all the changes, but if you’re interested you can get an idea of the main changes by checking out the bug tracker.
I’ve now got full and proper support for several popular plugins, including Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menus and NextGen Gallery. For full details about which plugins are supported head over to the plugin compatibility page, and if you’ve got a plugin you would like to supported just let me know. A big thanks to Ozh for his help and suggestions in streamlining the method used to apply the styles on a per-plugin basis.
Ok, thats enough talk, what are you waiting for. Download v1.1 now and give it a whirl. And you can find out more details here.
