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News:
Friday December 24th, 2010
As I've mentioned to several of you, maps are going to play a very big part on this site. As a proof of concept, I've built support for displaying member photos on a google map. Check it out here. The latest 50 public member photos that have been uploaded with GPS coordinates included are included.
I plan to build a full travel photo album feature so members will be able to create an album for each trip they take, upload the photos with titles and captions and then view them as kind of a visual travel route on a map. That'll just be the beginning. Slowly but surely the site is turning into something useful.
Monday December 20th, 2010
One of my best friends, Stacie who's a partner in 48th Ave Productions, has put together a new look for Miles By Motorcycle which I've now taken live. It's so much better than what we had before. While I was at it, I added a new feature to the forums. If you add a photo to the forum it will now be added to the new Member Photos area and will be rotated in the new jQuery slideshow on the homepage which should make the site feel more alive.
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Another month, another major software update. I've completed an alpha version of a link tagging and social index system which will slowly form the basis of the expanded vision for this site. Check out the link index. If you have a link you'd like to share, slap it into the forum or post it directly to the index.Friday, October 29th, 2010
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Facebook users can now post comments to the blog articles I write here by simply clicking on the login using facebook button in the upper right. The first time you do this you'll go through an abbreviated registration process. Check out the Facebook Integration page for more information.
Other changes:
By request, the Settings menu (available in the upper right corner once you log in) has been expanded so that all of your settings are now available in one place. It now includes a centralized email notification setting screen so that if you no longer want to receive emails generated by this site, just go to Settings -> Change Email Notification Settings. You can also change your privacy preference and other settings.
Also, there is now a concept of a "Profile Page" as part of your account here. If your privacy is "public", this setting available from Settings -> Change/Set Profile Page Name (URL) sets what page name will be used for your profile. For instance, Duncan has his profile page set to "buffalo" so his profile can be reached using http://miles-by-motorcycle.com/buffalo.
As some of you know, I've been working fast and furiously trying to expand my formVista platform software that runs this site. Anatoly, my business partner, had suggested I look at using open source alternatives to the stuff I've written so I could focus more time on putting together content and less time writing software. I looked at Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and others, but unfortunately nothing gave me the mix of features I wanted to build out my vision for this site. I have to admit, while I was open to abandoning formVista, after giving these other platforms an honest evaluation, I'm somewhat relieved that I'll continue to use what I've written. I've got over 9 years into this software and the prospect of abandoning it was weighing heavily on me.
I've gotten the Facebook stuff working, finally. Now I'm going to move onto the social indexing features. From there it's onto the maps and routes stuff. I'm hoping that we'll be able to start work on the Android client app before too long.