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2011-08-16 at 12:41 CEST

Soxer site down

We managed to loose all our LVM partitions due to failed Raid 6...

2011-05-22 at 01:44 CEST

0.9.13 in the making... Currently only at github

Current version has a set of minor bugs, but I had to wait for the big one...

2011-05-11 at 11:39 CEST

The completely bogus Zappa vs Sinatra test

I have recently been playing with V8 Javascript interpreter - if only because I really dislike JS's syntax. The reason was CoffeeScript, which is more palpable to me.


2011-04-30 at 02:48 CEST

Soxer WORKS again. New version release is 0.9.12

The previous bug was severe. It was impossible to upgrade to Sinatra 1.2.3.

2011-04-26 at 12:37 CEST

Soxer is currently broken

Soxer does not work with Sinatra 1.2.3.

2011-03-22 at 07:16 CET

Soxer 0.9.10 version released

Some inconsistencies and better solutions have forced me to release a new version of Soxer.

2011-03-03 at 20:25 CET

New version of soxer released

Soxer is at 0.9.9, and pretty stable now. Some new features added and approaching version 1.0.0

2010-12-07 at 09:29 CET

Frequent Soxer site outages

It seems to us, that our web service provider has decided to cut down on clientèle to better match their financial crisis personnel cutbacks.

2010-11-28 at 20:58 CET

New version of soxer (0.9.8) released.

The new release has features an impressive bugfix list as well as some handy additions.

2010-11-12 at 02:28 CET

Unplanned soxer web site outage

There has been an unplanned power failure in the building, which caused our server to be unavailable for several hours.

2010-11-07 at 10:43 CET

Soxer offshots introduced

Every project seems to accumulate a number of useful tools, which are not a part of it.

2010-10-31 at 10:40 CET

Important information: Soxer is now modular.

Soxer has become a proper modular Sinatra application and has received major changes.

2010-10-26 at 17:55 CEST

Soxer gem is finally here

Soxer has made it to http://rubygems.org.

2010-09-21 at 03:13 CEST

Soxer is alive and kicking

Soxer is alive and kicking with some activity in the development area, but mainly in production and testing area.

2010-06-07 at 22:20 CEST

A major rewrite of functionality, many new functions added

Soxer has matured once more. Atom feeds, Discuss discussions, Google ads, Google analytics and sitemap.xml functionality has been completely integrated. Methods for invoking and placing partials (which are now a part of soxer distribution) have been added.

2010-05-30 at 01:58 CEST

Soxer gets it's first Atom feed

Soxer gets a major functionality lift again. You can curently view it at News Atom Feed and check the validity of the actual feed at w3c Atom validator


2010-05-28 at 11:15 CEST

Changes in internal structure and dependencies in Soxer

As the Soxer code expands, some made much needed structural changes - making it more object oriented and expandable.

2010-05-27 at 09:46 CEST

Soxer gets an auto generated sitemap file

You can check this site's file here: sitemap.xml.

I have included one more dependency - builder templates. This might not be the final decision, so again - this might change.


2010-05-25 at 13:57 CEST

A major rework in the Soxer internals

This new version of Soxer breaks down the backwards compatibility with get_list.

2010-05-17 at 23:41 CEST

New functionality added

New minor functionality added to the core Soxer - a string obfuscator.

2010-05-10 at 12:24 CEST

Minor fixes in URL treatment

http://www.formalibre.si has shown a slight glitch in treatment of links created by "link_to" function. Currently only http and https are supported, but that will change in the future.


2010-05-09 at 22:54 CEST

Decisions on licensing and work on multiple languages

I have read (sort of) the open source licenses and decided to release Soxer under GNU GPL license.

2010-05-06 at 19:01 CEST

Soxer gets disqus comments

Soxer gets a [disqus](http://www.disqus.com) commenting system and enters "official alpha" testing stage.

2010-05-04 at 03:21 CEST

Soxer Tutorials

Tutorials or code snippets, general rules of thumb with solutions to common quests.

2010-05-03 at 09:18 CEST

A take on Sinatra and Memcached

Sinatra riding Rack is quite an incredible piece of technology. I am now contemplating different ways of addressing the speed issue.

2010-05-01 at 09:31 CEST

First preliminary benchmark

I have quickly benchmarked Soxer with httpref.

The results are (needles to say) less then stellar. Fortunately, the bottle seems to have the neck positioned well above 1,000 records, so I have some time.


2010-04-30 at 18:20 CEST

Soxer is launched

Soxer is in it's pre-alpha stage. It has not been published yet, but it _is_ running this web page.

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