Over the past few days, I fell in love with updating my blog engine again. I go through these cycles where after an update, I won’t touch it for a while. Then something comes along that I need to fix and I’ll update a whole bunch of stuff all at once.

This time I went in and added some new features, updates old pages, and fixed some bugs. One of the pages that had been published, but was not publicly accessible, is the changelog. A changelog is a simple log of changes that have occurred during a project that includes new features and bug fixes. This is the first time that it’s been publicly linked. I’ll keep updating this as I add features and continue doing bug fixes.

You can access the changelog from the updated About page which contains updated information about the blog URL name (eddorre) as well as information about the tools that I use. Someday there will be information about me but I haven’t figured out if I’m going to write (hard to write about yourself) or have someone that I know do it.

As my changelog mentions, I’ve added Twitter updates. This just simply lists out the last 5 updates that I’ve made in Twitter via a JSON call. If you’re curious there are full updates available.

I’ve also fixed a nasty bug (that I thought that I had fixed before) where the order of the comments were listed in the wrong order (latest comment first in the list instead of last).

All of those changes are visible to everyone but there are changes that aren’t available for everyone to see. The mostly involve the back end publishing part of the site. Those updates include shoring my Models by using Rails’ new named_scope options as well as including several helper methods here and there.

I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished considering that I work on this in my spare time.