Hi Markus,

You're obviously working on something substantial (you're usually more talkative than you've been lately).

When you have a break from coding, can you give us an update on upcoming releases, new stuff, etc etc.

PS: My iWiccle 1.21 site has been running for a number of weeks now and nothing but positives to report - it's all good !! - if my members are happy, I'm happy!

Thanks,  John

Hi John,

And thanks for asking. Great to hear your site is working as you wish; that's what we all want to see happening!

I have indeed been working on something substantial, but the bulk of the work has been in bringing a bit of extra order to our "thirty-thread multiprocessing" environment after my return from Galway to home, and dealing with all the left-over loose ends. And so we have now drafted up work schedules that don't depend on me working 16 hours per day on a permanent basis, helping make my code input and schedules a bit more predictable than before. In other news, we have three new interns who are in the process of getting up to speed with the code. =)

The 1.21.1 release has been ready to roll for a while now; I will put it out in the course of tonight to get one checkbox ticked away. And WWB 1.0 is on schedule for Thursday morning. More information on future stuff to follow in the wake of that pending major release... Really need to get that out of the way now!

Regards,
Markus

That's great news Markus :)

So far my site has 39 members and I haven't done a thing with it since the last time you went in. Just the simple splash I wrote on the entrance screen. Must be SE traffic too because I'm certainly not advertising anywhere. Can hardly wait to see what happens when it gets really going!

I haven't put too much work into it for a couple of  reasons, mainly I've been getting another site up and running with the new vB4 CMS. That's taking a little getting used to as well. But that should be all ready to go in a week or so. Then I can start focusing on Wiccle more!

With Wiccle Web Builder v1.0 very near pending release, here is a quick overview video that I have uploaded. Enjoy

Pardon the procastrination as I've been working on getting myself synchronized with the rest of the universe...

I have just finished a nifty little tool that scans and compares iWiccle builds' filesystems. Packaging in progress as you can see from below -- picking out the changed files into a bundle.

The bulk of this code is really written for 1) filesystem integrity checker and 2) in-browser software update management, but making the building of upgrade bundles easier seemed like a good first phase with the code.

In the next hour or two, I will be releasing both the full 1.21.1 installer as well as the upgrade bundle for 1.21.0 users --- a historical occasion in its own right, but since established 1.21.0 users are the main audience waiting for the release to upgrade their systems, I didn't want to flatten the atmosphere with an extra wait for them / you after the buzz is already on with a new release.

Expect to see the releases in the next couple of hours. I also intend to be a bit pedantic for once and make a list of all the bugs and glitches that were fixed for this upgrade to let everyone know what exactly has been brewing all this time. =)

Alright, the little rabbit (1.21.1) is out of the hat now, links are live on the download page. WWB to follow towards afternoon.

Thanks for the detailed changelog Markus. Allows me to upgrade (in the next day or so) without re-working my site templates - WooHoo!

Good Luck (and well done!) with the release of the Big One.

* Here's the iWiccle 1.21.1 release announcement.

Yes you definitely don't need to rework your templates -- 1.20 was when template structures moved around and settled down. From here onward, you may need to do a little template tweak at every umpteenth upgrade we roll out, but nothing like 1.11->1.20 is in horizon anytime soon. (Upcoming 2.0 won't shuffle around anywhere near as much as 1.20 did.)

Note that you will want to manually upgrade skin_wrappers.php, skin_menus.php and menus.css if you've done any changes to them --- don't upload the new files themselves to not overwrite your mods. (It's just a few silly lines really, so it shouldn't be a big deal.)

With two months from the 1.21.0 release, it's clearly been a "one bug a day keeps boredom away" ethos here. If I received more bug reports, I could fix more. Then again maybe most of our bugs are so well hidden that nobody can find them! =)

Let me know how it goes with the upgrade, and good luck to you too! (Though you shouldn't need  much of it to get this one done.)

Code engines at Wrap 9 — arriving at destination momentarily! =)

So then!

WWB 1.0 is done and dusted for now — final overview + packaging in progress. And now I'm just staring at it! Almost can't believe it's finally going out.

WooHoo!

Looking forward to the release Markus. If it's fully ready, especially for the likes of my level of expertise then I won't upgrade the iWiccle and wait for the big kahuna!

Well if your expertise is good with iWiccle, think of WWB as iWiccle++ on steroids but with mostly the same general controls and options.

Remember, we've been rolling out much/most of its core advances in this year's iWiccle releases — against our better business judgment!!

Upgraded iWiccle 1.21 to 1.21.1 on my live site! Totally smooth . Had a quick check through the site before I brought it back online - everything looks good!

Excellent! Nothing there that should break anything.

In your case you may want to double check the config files though, and move whatever changes you make into the new modulename_config_ext.php files that extend (and overwrite) settings in modulename_config.php (and leave it for us to upgrade without overwriting your config customizations). Last time you will ever need to do this!

The automatic multi-mode support for modules we talked about earlier -- without needing to change the code in modulename_core.php --- is now also rolled in in 1.21.1.