Just a few minutes ago I committed my core-changes for some features to CVS :-) Hope i didn't break CVS, or Nucleus CVS... Here's the changelog:

• CHANGED: PluginOptionExtras-event now has an extra-field which can be used to add option-specific code to the page
• ADDED: new event, PrePluginOptionsUpdate, can be used by plugins to verify/modify the new value for an option
• ADDED: Plugins can now provide a documentation page, which is shown inside the admin area
• ADDED: Plugins can now limit values for an option to be only numeric
• ADDED: OptionTop-methods, to let a plugin retreive an array of the x-heighest (of lowest) values of an option
• ADDED: Plugins can now make specific options for items. These options can be edited directly from the item add or edit page

i also added my testcases to /build/testcases

UPDATE: I discovered some problems and a bug in my testcase-plugins (not in the core mods :-) ). I changed it locally here so the updated testcases will be in CVS with the following commit

I finally dropped that ugly IIS and installed Apache 2 :-)
I also upgraded my PHP to PHP5 and applied the settings I asked Karma for (THX!)
Everything seemed to work fine until i viewed my dev-blog... just an empty page :-s Something was wrong with the mysql extension... I tried everything like explained but i couldn't get it to work :-( After trying some more i finally found that there was a second php.ini in my windows-dir, while i was working with the php.ini file in c:\php... now it works... Stupid windows! (this was very useful: http://www.multidesk.be/faqs/000109/)

While i was shopping this weekend (well actually just 'looking' ;-) ) i accidentally found "Design Patterns (dutch edition)", also known (correct me if i'm wrong) as the the book of the Gang of Four (GoF). Since one of my teacher had told us this year this was a really interesting book, i took my mobile called my mum and a few minutes later i bought the book :-)

I just got a really really cool idea! ;-)
One of the features i have always wanted to have in Nucleus is a feature to automatically send a dailey newsletter with the last x items, like the newsletters of slashdot, zdnet, newsforge...
I know there are some websites that offer you such a service, using your feeds, like bloglet. But using 3thd party services makes you dependent on that service and you can not costumize it like you want.
So half a year ago i started thinking about creating a seperate (hardcoded) script that would querie my database and send the mails and i would be able to set up a cronjob for it. Ofcourse this method is also far from optimal (it isn't as simple to just query items, since they somehow need to be parsed), and it would not be very portable.

So today i started thinking while i was working in the garden, and suddenly i got it :-) (i hope)
I'm going to write a plugin to create …

I released the first versio of FancierPermalink, a plugin that makes it possible to add fancier url's to items, categories and memberpages. The URL's look like the ones you get when you use Radek's NP_FancierURL, but this plugin does not require any core mods. BUT this plugin requires some of my core mods (itemoptions, helppage (not necessary), PrePluginOptionUpdate and PrePluginOptionEdit), so in fact this is also a testcase/demo for the mods :-)

Wiki: http://wiki.budts.be/NpFancierPermalink
Forum: http://forum.nucleuscms.org/viewtopic.php?t=4239

I'm back from the Ardennen (if you ever want to go there try this hotel) and i have some very fresh ideas for Nucleus :-):

• More functional NUDN so that it becomes 'the Nucleus Community site'. NUDN will then contain:
  • News (like it currently is)
  • Articles (tips and tricks and articles like the one about the parser written by Karma, the one about how nucleus accept a request by admun, my article about coding guidelines...)
  • Documentation: links to the help docs, or a doc blog like hcgtv currently made (not yet decided)
  • FAQ
  • Development: like currently this one
  • Bug database: currently we use (1) the forum which is sometimes a mess to find topics back after a while; (2) sf.net bugdatabase which is only known by a few people
  • downloads: patches etc
• Translatable plugins
• Articles for the NUDN
• NP_FancierPermalink: a plugin to create fancier permalinks for items, categories and members. URL's will look like the ones generated by NP_FancierURL but the plug will NOT require core mods.

I'm back from de Ardennen. Weblog item can be found here and pictures here :-) (pictures are always fun ;-) )

I replaced the power supply of my pc ("Firestorm", nice name not ;-p ?) with a new one and it seems to be alive and kicking and happy again :-)
Now i can finally finnish the itemOptions :-)

So this morning I finally heard the global results of my exams: i passed and may start now with my third year IT, which should be my last year :-)

I'll be 'out of the game' for a few days. This has two reasons:

• My computer died a bit. I'm afraid my power supply is broken... so that needs to get fixed
• I'm going to have a weekend with two other couples in 'de Ardennen', the south-east of belgium. (cottage)