| Changes | |
| 21/08/06 | The database server was updated which caused problems with logging into the system. Fixed by explicitly setting the character set on hte database connection. -- John |
| 27/05/06 | Began work on a new implementation of the website with JSP. As soon as this PhD is finished, this should start to slowly take over the main site and begin introducing a range of new features and developing a number of ideas. -- John |
| 29/12/05 | Fixed an issue with quotes being prepended with backslashes. -- John |
| 04/12/05 | Brought site back online after an attack on the system rendered it inoperable during the week. The dreams and accounts should all be restored but there are backups if anything is missing. Sadly my spare time is currently devoted to writing up my PhD thesis and will be for the next 6 months so I simply can't do any development until afterwards - at which point I fully intend obout a whole host of changes to the site and bring it up to scratch (and hopefully with some decent graphics). NB: The image on the front page displaying statistics is currently not working due to the new system being in place. -- John |
| 14/09/04 | Search page opened up to people who are not logged in. Meanwhile, work has been going on in the background to convert Abatons to J2EE. This should allow much quicker development when in place. -- John |
| 16/07/04 | It turns out that negative timestamps are not supported on this flavour of Linux. Some date functions have been modified accordingly. -- John |
| 04/07/04 | Added resource reference link for RSS feed. -- John |
| 26/04/04 | Now dictionary terms can be highlighted from dream entries. It is currently quite rudimentary until a dictionary aliases/variants feature is added. -- John |
| 22/04/04 | Added a feature to ignore certain people's dreams and comments. You can add them from the search page and manage the list from the preferences). Information and recent comments are displayed for a dreamer when they are specifically searched for. -- John |
| 06/04/04 | Updated Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. -- John |
| 05/03/04 | Small bug fix for undated dreams. Previously they were showing up as the current date on the main page. -- John |
| 27/02/04 | Changed date in RSS from RFC 2822 to ISO 8601 to bring in line with RDF standard. -- John |
| 19/01/04 | Entire database is now backed up nightly. Minimum word length in searches reduced to 3. -- John |
| 16/01/04 | Just added a list of the most recently read dreams. -- John |
| 9/01/04 | Added help for advanced searches. Added preferences for sending mails. Added sending of mails for dreams which you have previously commented on. -- John |
| 6/01/04 | Can now search for dreams with particular attributes. The list of attribute counts now has totals for personal dreams. The dictionary and public gallery has been opened up to unregistered members to view. -- John |
| 24/11/03 | Dream dictionary is online! Created an RSS feed for public dreams. -- John |
| 22/11/03 | Added a moon phase indicator un the hame page. Added capability to search for a particular user's dreams. Added search links all over. -- John |
| 20/11/03 | Cleaned up html and made many more steps toward xhtml compliance. Gallery is now visible without needing to login, though to view the entries still requires authentication. Later, more shall be open to guests. Another colour scheme change. The menu has been moved up to the header and a few other things have shifte around. -- John |
| 31/10/03 | Added more tooltips everywhere. -- John |
| 29/10/03 | Tiny colours scheme change AGAIN! Finally sorted out the tooltip code. -- John |
| 20/10/03 | Created a new UserDescriptions class and added tooltip descriptions for all users on the main page. Changed colour scheme a little bit again. -- John |
| 24/09/03 | Just added a bit of colour on the side. -- John |
| 17/09/03 | Fixed a few bugs including the problem with the Recent Unread Dreams. -- John |
| 02/09/03 | Now it is possible to recover from sessions that have timed out, so there is no need to worry about taking time to write in dreams. Added a small list of unread dreams to the main page. Can now post comments anonymously. Fixed a few small bugs and changed some text. -- John |
| 01/09/03 | Fixed bug in search page. Added a search history (later can provide a "other people who searched this also searched on..." feature). Added tables to the search page. Eventually the search page and the public dreams gallery will be merged into one. Rejiggled the main screen again. -- John |
| 27/08/03 | Fixed bugs in public dreams gallery. Added highlighting of search terms in viewed results. -- John |
| 11/08/03 | Added graph to main screen. Rejiggled the main screen again. -- John |
| 6/08/03 | Fixed problem with registering (DB was slightly modified). Fixed "Unterminated string constant" bug in dream edit page. -- John |
| 12/06/03 | Small change to main page showing the most recent comments. -- John |
| 30/05/03 | HUGE numbers of changes:
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| 28/05/03 | Added statistics library, can now get dream counts etc. anywhere not just main statistics page. Moved DreamViewSettings object to objects.php. Moved statistics to display attributes rather than keywords. -- Dave |
| 23/05/03 | The public dreams page now stores view preferences in cookies instead of resetting at each login. Created a DreamViewSettings object for this, can probably re-use it later. -- Dave |
| 14/05/03 | You can change your username in the preferences now. Plus, fixed the bug with the statistics page logging out. |
| 12/05/03 | Created a Dream and a User object to make facilitate getting user and dream info, and stop the same sql statements being duplicated in separate pages. Completely rewritten public_dreams.php to use these objects. Also added ability to sort ascending/descending by username, dream name, or dream date. Also added basic search page. Should add searching based on dream keywords soon (currently just does dream text and title search), and format the search results in a more meaningful way -- Dave |
| 07/05/03 | Added function to convert [keyword] to a link to a page that searches for that keyword. Added placeholder for search page. -- Dave |
| 01/05/03 | Added a statistics page showing top dreamers, and the number of times that different keywords show up. More numbers (and possibly some graphs) will end up there eventually. -- Dave |
| 18/04/03 | Been very busy recently. Only new thing is a mail sent to you when your dream is commented on. A few bugs were ironed out too. Soon I'll put some searching and graphs in. |
| 23/03/03 | You can now add comments to dreams. Added 3 more default keywords for dreams. Ironed out a few problems with the tooltips. Changed colour of links to stand out more. |
| 15/03/03 | Added new tooltips all over the place. You can now change your details in the preferences page. The details given here are not required but would add to some interesting statistics later on in the life of the site (e.g. Do westerners have more nightmares? Are men more affected by full moons? etc.). Fixed a dogdy bug with the public gallery where some dreams were not shown. Added a few bits of information around the place. |
| 7/03/03 | Dreams can now have attributes. Added some tooltips on the attributes. At some point there'll be an attribute editing page. |
| 4/03/03 | Changed a few colours again. Added a read count for the public dreams - the number of distinct users that have at some point viewed the dream, which is not necessarily the number of times the dream has been viewed. |
| 2/03/03 | You can now change your password to what you want in the preferences menu. |
| 1/03/03 | Ok, just fixed the embarrasing dream entry bug. You can now enter dreams again. Plus the other bug where you couldn't view dreams without titles. |
| 26/02/03 | Large number of internal changes. Fixed the dream dates bugs. Changed the colour scheme (not great but it is better than before). All your passwords are buggered, you'll need to get new ones sent to you from here, sorry. They now use a more secure encryption method. Added a dream gallery page where you can see other people's dreams. To put one of your dreams in this gallery, go to edit your dream and change its visibility at the bottom of the page. |
| 19/11/02 | Various internal changes. Know about the bugs with the dates in the dream entries - will work on that.. |
| 1/11/02 | Fixed a couple of bugs and created a page for people who have forgotten their password |
| 28/10/02 | Can now edit dreams, but still not attach the attributes. |
| 27/10/02 | You can now write your dreams. Bear in mind that the dream attributes are currently ignored. Only the dream title, dream description and date are saved. At some point soon I'll create a page to edit the dreams - then you can add attributes to your existing entries. |
| 27/08/02 | A minimal registration is up and running now. |
| 26/08/02 | Login code finished (just need registration now). |
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