Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Sometime this weekend, hopefully, I will get Screaming-Penguin running the new "totspCode" codebase.

For the uninitiated this is a healthy rewrite of the current totsp code that fixes many bugs, adds a few enhancements and basically just cleans up a lot of old junk. (Most notably fixed storyAdmin that addresses quoting and session timeout issues, entirely new "comments" architecture with in story view, new user preferences and improved custom sources tool, removal of a ton of html and replaced with css, addition of new "admin" tools for categories, sidebar content, links and rss feeds, and many many other smaller items.)

The demo is available at www.totsp.com/totspCode.
Please hit it, use it and let me know if you find any issues or have any suggestions. (Note you will have issues if you are logged into screaming-penguin and then hit totspCode, log out first, since totspCode is not its own domain these site share session variable names and that causes issues between the two.)

The new code, totspCode, is totally re-usable by defining site options in a single "config" file. It is also totally re-skinnable with the editing of a single css file.

It is intended to be, and will be, released as open source so that anyone who wants to can reference or use it. I plan to release the code here under the "TotSP Projects" category as soon as some final testing is completed. (All code is currently done, other than any issues that are discovered in testing.)

I will be migrating all user accounts and preferences, all story content and comments and all rss feed "sources" when I perform the "upgrade" (this weekend hopefully). (This will be the trickiest part, but it shouldnt be that bad, the data model has changed a bit.)

Peace out, and have a good memorial day.