From: Duane Johnson Date: 2006-01-08T14:05:27+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Family Connection 1.1.2 --Apple-Mail-17--524282642 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed == What is Family Connection? == Family Connection is an easy-to-setup online hub for your family that includes a Family News section with Photos, and an Address Book. For more information, visit http://familyconnect.rubyforge.org/ == Downloads == Latest: svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/familyconnect/trunk Version 1.1.2: svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/familyconnect/tags/1.1.2 Tar/gzipped: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1220 == Main Changes / New Features in 1.1.2 == - Added lightbox support for viewing images. Clicking on a thumbnail now brings up the full-sized image inside a nicely framed area within the browser window. - Added an experimental pre-dispatcher that helps diagnose database connectivity issues if not set up correctly. (See http:// inquirylabs.com/blog2005/?p=38) - Added birthdays. No calendar / reminders yet, however. - Added a "last visited" date to each person in the address book so members can see when others last visited the site. - Admin user now has much greater power. He/she can modify other users entries, remove user accounts, modify other user accounts etc. - Blank photos are shown in place of real photos when user hasn't yet uploaded their photo. == Changelog == 2006-01-07 - Version 1.1.2 - Fixed that the visited timestamp was scrambling the user's password each save - Added a rakefile for packaging family connection as a tgz for release 2006-01-07 - Version 1.1.1 - Fixed the dispatcher so it will permit absolute paths as well as relative. 2006-01-07 - Version 1.1 - Added blank family photo with link to upload if administrator did not set up a family photo on the first setup page. [Duane] - Removed unused partial user_info [Duane] - Added instruction for users to click on their name if they want to edit it [Duane] - User profile now shows a blank photo area if viewing own profile [Duane] - Added 'upload_photo' action and view so users can focus on just their photo [Duane] - Added ability to edit other users' posts as admin [Duane] - Added ability to remove user accounts as admin [Duane] - Replaced require_resource_helper with bundled_resource plugin [Duane] - Added lightbox support for viewing images [Duane] - Added birthday and visited_at columns to users table [Duane] - Removed unnecessary database connectivity check in application.rb [Duane] - Added 'last visited' info to each user in address book [Duane] - Improved English in user_news_link partial [Duane] - Added birthday to signup form, edit form and address book [Duane] 2006-01-06 - Version 1.1 - Removed empty helper files [Duane] - Added RequireResourceHelper module for javascripts and stylesheets [Duane] 2006-01-05 - Version 1.1 - Ignore log files and config files in subversion [Duane] - Added a user-friendly database exception message [Duane] 2006-01-04 - Version 1.1 - Added 'site' directory to keep the public site under version control [Duane] - Fixed inconsistent names such as family_connection in installation instructions. [Duane] - Added this CHANGELOG file [Duane] Duane Johnson (canadaduane) http://blog.inquirylabs.com/ --Apple-Mail-17--524282642--