What's New

Thingamablog 1.1b6

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:14:39 -0500

This release fixes a problem with the handling of "Unknown tags" in the entry editor.

It also fixes a bug in the "Paste formatted" feature, that would incorrectly insert block elements into the HTMLDocument.

Thingamablog 1.1b5

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:44:44 -0500

This release fixes a few minor issues:

The Paste option now pastes text unformatted
Added a "Paste formatted" option which pastes formatted text
Fixed an issue with the entry editor displaying "unknown" tags.
German translation has been updated courtesy of Fre@k. Thanks, Fre@k!

Thingamablog 1.1b4

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:52:41 -0500

This release contains all the fixes found in 1.1b2 - 1.1b4. It fixes the following bugs:

Fixes a bug caused by the use of System.getenv() method which would cause startup to fail under the Blackdown JRE.
Fixes a bug that would only allow pasting of plain text or html into the entry editor.
Fixes a bug in the wysiwyg editor that prevented character attributes from being properly set and removed.
Fixes a bug in the wysiwyg editor that prevented character attributes from being saved when switching to the source code editor, or when posting entries.
Fixes a bug in the wysiwyg editor that wouldn't paste in HTML formatted text properly.
Fixes a bug in the UI that would cause certain non-latin characters to be displayed as cubics.
Fixes a bug that previewed entries with default settings instead of the actual weblog settings.
Fixes a bug in the Entry Editor that wouldn't save the date of modified entries.
Fixes a bug in the RPM spec file.
Fixes a bug that didn't properly format RFC882 dates in the generated RSS feed.
Fixes a bug that would add strangly formatted HTML such as <br></br> when using the "tidy_html" attribute on template tags. E.g: <$EntryBody tidy_html="1"$>

In addtion, the French translation has been updated courtesy of Guillôme. Thanks, Guillôme!

Thingamablog 1.1b1

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:51:24 -0500

This release fixes a few bugs and also adds several new features that are outlined below.

Post from email

This feature allows you to post to your blog remotely via email. You specify an email server to check in the Weblog Config dialog or when creating a new weblog. When TAMB checks your inbox, if any new mail is found that matches the email address of any of your authors, it will be downloaded and automatically published.

When posting from email, you tell TAMB that it should be imported by prefixing the email subject field with a directive such as POST followed by a colon. E.g...
POST: This is the entry title

You can also specify which categories the email should be imported into by supplying a comma separated list of category names after the POST directive. E.g...
POST in Current Events, Movie Reviews, Cooking: An interesting documentary all about spatulas

Note the 'in' between POST and the categories. Also note that if one of your category names contains a comma or a colon, you should substitute them by using the comma colon character entity. Just for reference a comma is , and a colon is :.

When you send email from web based email services like Hotmail or Yahoo, they usually stick an advertisement at the bottom of the email. To get around this, you can use the optional $body_start$ and $body_end$ delimiters to specify where the body of the post begins and ends. For example...

$body_start$

Hello, World.

This is the body of the post.

$body_end$

Annoying Yahoo advertisment here is ignored

Template Packs

Also new in 1.1b1 are Template Packs. These are zip files that containing templates that can be imported and exported into your blog. This makes it a little easier to install and try out new templates.

Installing new templates is accomplished through the "Install template pack" option on the file menu. Once you install a template, it's available to all the blogs in your database via the "Templates" pane on the Weblog Config dialog. There you can change your current template set, and preview other installed sets.

You can also export your templates to a pack which you can share with others. This is done by simply right clicking on your blog and selecting the "Export Templates" option. After the templates have been exported to a zip file, they can be can be reinstalled using the "Install template pack" option mentioned above.

Entry Preview

Now when writing entries you can preview how it will look using your current templates from the "Preview" option on the Tools menu. When you preview an entry, it's written locally and shown from a folder on your local drive. This saves you from having to continually publishing an entry after discovering it didn't look as you'd hoped.

Internal Links

With "Internal Links" you can quickly and easily create links in your entries to other pages of your weblog such as entries, category pages, archive pages, or any of the files in your Web Files folder. This feature can be accessed from the Insert menu or the format tool bar on the Entry Editor.

Other odds and ends

The dialog box that used to pop up every time you published has been replaced by the "Tasks" dialog box.
The Options dialog now lets you select the language you'd like TAMB's UI to display. Not all of the new strings have been internationalized yet, however.
The "Web Files" folder can now be opened in the operating system's file explorer from the right click option "Open." Does this work ok on Mac OS X?
The code editor now can do syntax highlighting for just about anything.
Slightly more flexible html editing options.