I've moved into what is probably the least glamorous phase of development: security, permissions, and user management. There are four (or five) different roles in FromThePage, with some areas of ambiguity regarding what those users are allowed to do. Admins are the rulers of a software installation. There are only a few of them per site, and in a hosted environment, they … [Read more...] about Feature: User Roles
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Progress Report: Work and Page Administration
As I said earlier, I've been making really good progress writing the kinds of administrative features that Rails excels at. Despite my digression to implement zoom, in the last two weeks I've added code for: Converting a set of titled images into a work composed of pages Creating a new, blank work Editing title and description information about a work Deleting a work … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Work and Page Administration
Progress Report: Zoom
Zoom is done! It took me about a week of intense development, which translates to perhaps 8-10 hours of full-time work. Most of that was spent trying to figure out why prototype.js's Ajax.Request wasn't executing RJS commands sent back to it. For the past year, I've been concentrating on automating the process of converting two directories of 180ish hastily-taken images into … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Zoom