Just Journal Developer Blog

I've accomplished a great deal tonight with the mood icons. The icons are now displaying for seven root categories and are inherited by sub categories. There are 28 total root categories which means 21 need icons for all moods to have icons.

I have the icons working for individual journals and friends pages. Previously, no icons appeared on friends pages.

In addition, I fixed the bug where "Not Specified" appeared for location and mood. Those fields now only appear if the user selected a valid item.

The new mysql version is slower and the additional overhead of mood icons has slowed down the site. I'll work on optimizations over the next week. I started consolidating code in september, but the college semester through me off track.

During my break I hope to fix all the outstanding bugs and broken features that the public knows about. I want to get spell check and friends security working.

I also need to work on another site I actually get paid for so i might not get everything done during break.

The spell check engine has worked since august but i never created the jsp pages to use it.

Friends security is partially working. You can now view your friends secure entries when logged in on your friends page.

Only bug is that you can not view our own entries on your friends friends page yet. (that is not a good sentence, but its 2 am)

The SQL query is a bit odd that i wrote. If anyone has entries go public that shouldn't or find a bug in the system let me know.

On a friends page, if an entry has security attached then the proper icon is now displayed.

That way your friends will know the entry is private and not to talk about it publicly! (well hopefully)

Remember that comments are technically public. Unless someone can see the entry, they can't click on the comments link though. It is still possible to view them if they guess the comment id or someone gives it to them. (i may change that in the future)

It is now possible to spell check a post. There are a few minor bugs with the system yet. The location and date are not saved during the spell check transaction, but the other fields are saved.

The dictionary is US English only. I need to get dictionary files for other languages including British English, German, French, Spanish, and any other languages. I'd be happy to take contributions.

If the spell check engine doesn't recoginize a word, it will not report a misspelling. Feel free to submit words to add to the dictionary file.

In the last 24 hours, i've added new mood icons, spell check, and a few bug fixes. I also increased the size of the entry input form.