You may or may not have noticed a redirect on this site to http://randomcoder.org/. This domain has recently become available, and since the focus of this site is very much community-oriented, a .org seemed more appropriate than a .com.
Added feeds to the website. At some point, I'll add RSS 1.0/2.0 feeds and tag-specific feeds, but for now the only choice is the main feed in Atom format.
Let me know if you run into any problems with the feed.
Updated the download manager to query a local version of the Maven repository. This avoids periodic polling of the web server to read metadata, which was causing a lot of unnecessary traffic.
Comment moderation has now been enabled (both manual and through Akismet).
Hopefully this will put a stop to the comment spam. Tip: Post your comments as a logged-in user. This lets them show up right away (although they will still be processed by Akismet after a few minutes).
Update: It looks like I failed to set some database permissions properly, and adding new comments was failing. I thought it seemed a little too quiet around here...
The latest version of the site is now up and running.
The only major change in this version is the new Download page. Download pages are always a pain to write, as the content on them changes fairly often. This version dynamically queries sources on the fly (and caches them) so it shouldn't require any manual updates.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
The latest batch of changes is up. Read more for details.
Just a quick update... Even though I haven't posted anything to the site recently, development has been proceeding along.
Unfortunately, it looks as though the next update to the site is going to be delayed just a little bit longer due to the need for some comment spam handling. I made the mistake of assuming that this site was small enough to allow open posting. Currently, I'm looking at several options:
- Forcing logins to post
- Comment filtering
- Moderation
- Reputation
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Another site update. There are several minor changes, and one big one: comment posting. It's pretty basic for now; as the site evolves new capabilities will be added.
It's been a little while since the site launch, but I've been busy with some updates. Most of them aren't user-visible just yet, but are necessary for the upcoming registration and comment system.
The one notable exception is the new tag cloud, which will be the subject of an upcoming article.