Fabrizio Balliano

The are a lot of things to talk about today, let’s start.

MOST IMPORTANT: SF 2008 COMMUNITY CHOICE AWARDS
Please take 1 minute to vote P4A in the “Best Tool or Utility for Developers” category (you can nominate P4A for more categories but we think that the suggested one is the right).

THE RELEASE
This is nothing more than a bugfix release, here’s the changelog:

- a bug with P4A_Field::getAsCheckbox() method was solved
- when a P4A_Field’s value is coming from a POST, P4A::main() now checks if the field is enabled
- translations were synched

Download P4A 3.0.0-rc2

P4A WEBSITE
We took some time to work on the website and add some cools features, first of all a nice screenshot section, powered by jquery and the jcarousel and lightbox plugins.

Here you have a screenshot of the new page:

Be sure to check the new website at:
http://p4a.sourceforge.net/

In the new link bar you can find the constantly updated code reference and the link to the translation tools and everything else you will need to live in the P4A world.

P4A WIKI
The new wiki is installed and available here:
http://p4a.crealabsfoundation.org/wiki/
it’s completely empty but you can start registering and we will discuss what to publish and how to do that in the next few days.

PS: the wiki is not linked from the home page yet, we’ll wait for some contents to do that.

MISCELLANEOUS

• We’re working on the commercial license and we hope to have it ready soon
• it seems that the new jquery and jquery UI release will be out in a few days, if it will be so we’ll be happy to include it in P4A 3
• I’m sure I’m forgetting something :-)

see you soon and spread the word!!!

Just a few days after the 2.0.2 it’s time to download the new 2.0.3. It’s only a minor minor minor update release, just some documentation changes and the uck-gui icon was moved from the “utility” menu to the “system tools” menu.

Download UCK 2.0.3

PS: Sorry for the ugly post, I’m really out of time now :-)

Time to release some bugfixes and prepare for the stable release, we had to cut out jQuery UI (and P4A_DB_Navigator’s drag&drop) from our roadmap ’cause it seems that jQuery UI won’t be released soon and we can’t wait anymore.

Anyway, here is the changelog:

- saveUploads() method was moved from P4A_Mask to P4A_Data_Source
- P4A_DB::quote() method’s 2nd param “autoquote” is now false by default,
solving some problems with P4A_Data_Field::getSQLValue() and getSQLNewValue()
- when P4A_DB_Source needs a quoted value now it uses P4A_DB->quote() with
autoquote turned on
- P4A_DB::quote() method, if autoquote param is on, always encloses the value
within single quotes
- jQuery::form was updated to 2.0.8
- jQuery::iFixPNG was updated to 2.1
- P4A_Menu’s CSS were changed a bit solving a bug with IE6 (too fast hide)
- P4A_DB_Navigator movements were disabled (due to the unavailable jQuery UI release)
thus now all allowMovements methods trigger errors

We’ll let this release “rest” for some weeks, during this time we’ll work on the documentation and website, fixing the bugs that will eventually come out. If everything will go smoothly as I hope, we’ll simply have to sync translations and release it as 3.0.0 final.

Download P4A 3.0.0-rc1, please help us with translations and report us all the bugs you find! Thank you so much!

It was a long time since the last UCK release but… it actually works pretty well for its purpose, anyway we thought it was time for an update.

With 2.0.2 you’ll find that UCK is now released under GPL3, I love it :-)
This new release adds support for Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron).

I worked on the (small) patched working on “Ubuntu Italian ISO” and Minibuntu thus it should be tested enough.

Download UCK 2.0.2