Results for version 9

Version 9.2.8.0

Posted January 21st, 2009 by Nick

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.8.0

Extended that to all the SQL command interface, since it seemed to be working for that, but still getting problems elsewhere
And to the SQL database open as well
Added code to check database integrity. Started adding places for which I had photos but no places.
Prevented the “moderator’s” box for adding places from emails displaying for everybody else (as I’d always intended)
Started work on code to let places be added breaking lock flights
Input page for places that break the lock flight added – nice new slider added for splitting locks
Logon status added to new place page
Fixed a bug in the SQL locking code from Monday
The “moderators” box thing didn’t work – made it hard wired to me instead, as I’m the only person ever likely to do it
All updates are now executed as single transactions, so will be rolled back if they fail leaving the database consistent

Posted January 11th, 2009 by Nick

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.7.0

Place with odd punctuation don’t break in “add a place” – failing to show anywhere else
Local end doesn’t fail when multiple changes affect the same bit of waterway (distinction between version in database and version in memory)
Added some random sleeping to the SQL code to prevent failing with database busy at the drop of a hat

Posted January 11th, 2009 by Nick

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.6.3

Prevented pasted places going in if there is one with that ID already
Added a “COMMIT” stage to transaction logging, so failed transactions don’t clutter up the log
Fixed some bugs I’d introduced into “create user”

Posted January 10th, 2009 by Nick

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.6.2

Posted January 10th, 2009 by Nick

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.6.1

Fixed a bug in javascript for new place adding
Transaction logging working at both ends for new places. Added a number of recent new places to live version to test this – and because it needed doing.
Restored photo adding – small typo in hacked-out code
Typo in Makefile fixed so transaction logs don’t get sent

Posted January 10th, 2009 by Nick

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.6.0

Work on the local end of transaction logging. Tested for added photos. User creation is now logged.
Added a feature to let me paste new places in, tweak them and have them added

Posted January 4th, 2009 by Steve

Lots of changes rolled up into one blog

Here are the bug fixes and enhancements for Version 9.2.5.0

Core code for adding places built – working off a small database of those changes that have been made over the past however many years. This is the bit of code that updates all the place and link databases with the new place and keeps a log so that it can be undone if found to be faulty. This works really well – it’s quite astonishing the first few times when you add a new place and it instantly is available to the drop down place selector and appears in the gazetteer. The next step is to add the “moderation” (it’s a form of retro-moderation) for these. Then the backlog can be added and moderated (there is, I’m afraid to say, a lot of good-intentioned rubbish in there), and then a front-end for the new system (but clearly made almost entirely of the old code) added.

Improved dimesionsions printing – added metres and inches All waterway dimensions were wrong! Fixed thme with new db script
Basic “edit details of place” code added
A new phase of the moon – both new C code to support it, and a new set of graphics created. The old “moongif” has been ripped out of the code base.

Fixed a bug (added new code to route.c) in the waterways gazetteer where some canals came out with each leg in the wrong order (the B&F was one) and so also didn’t have their ends correctly described.
Lock count in waterway gazetteer now works
Place size descriptions are out by one
Stray comma in wikiedit javascript (broke IE)
Can no longer edit when not logged on (old testing hack removed)

Moon made slightly smaller on index page
A bit more padding on the left of the main box on the index page
Fixed a bug where visiting the index page with an active but vague session caused a Javascript error
Added a simple statistics (just place count) to index page
Dodgy data made planning routes along the GU impossible.
There’s a message about this being the development version on the index page

Logging all SQL (to allow keeping multiple databases synchronised) was inefficient, and didn’t cope with (for example) adding photos. So I started to implement a new transaction system using a mini-language that can be acted on and written for later import.
Doing this I hit a long-standing design flaw in the language: because I use () both as list delimiters and for expression grouping, single item lists tend to turn into atoms of the appropriate type. To fix this I:
- Defined a new pair of characters that act as list delimiters only
- Added some limited UTF-8 handing in the source code to allow me to use sloping double quotes (AltGr-V and B) for this purpose
- Added traditional multiply and divide (AltGr-< and >) operators as a test while developing it
Quicksearch on home page now preserves session IDs
Transaction writing now works for new places
And for adding photographs (complicated as it’s in three phases)
And for moving photos