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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:48:33 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>News</title><subtitle>News</subtitle><id>http://mikevalstar.com/news/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-12-17T18:06:22Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Atomic Bookmark Chrome Extension</title><category term="Chrome"/><category term="chrome"/><id>http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/12/17/atomic-bookmark-chrome-extension.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/12/17/atomic-bookmark-chrome-extension.html"/><author><name>Mike Valstar</name></author><published>2009-12-17T18:04:19Z</published><updated>2009-12-17T18:04:19Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>I recently made a chrome extension that allows you to search through your bookmarks in chrome.</p>
<p>Check it out: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fkbecffhfgdpiigmkgljmfgnejmhfejh">Atomic Bookmark</a></p>
<p>I will be updating this over the next couple days. &nbsp;Mostly this weekend to add a lot more&nbsp;functionality&nbsp;to Chrome's bookmarks.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Gentoo-Portage.com Chrome Extension</title><category term="chrome"/><category term="gentoo-portage"/><id>http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/12/14/gentoo-portagecom-chrome-extension.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/12/14/gentoo-portagecom-chrome-extension.html"/><author><name>Mike Valstar</name></author><published>2009-12-14T23:57:53Z</published><updated>2009-12-14T23:57:53Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>For those using Google Chrome I have released an extension that (for the moment) will just search this website. <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ccgnocplaeodignbgbgegficahcjafij">available here</a></p>
<p>If people are interested I will be adding more to this extension in the future including showing when any of your tracked packages have been updated.</p>
<p>Source for the chrome extension is available <a href="http://svn.gentoo-portage.com:8088/svn/gentoo-portage/trunk/chrome_extension/">here</a> (L/P: guest/guest) if anyone would like to help out.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Pomby V0.10</title><category term="Pomby"/><category term="Pomby PHP"/><id>http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/11/8/pomby-v010.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/11/8/pomby-v010.html"/><author><name>Mike Valstar</name></author><published>2009-11-08T22:32:46Z</published><updated>2009-11-08T22:32:46Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>Today I'm releasing <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pomby-knowlegebase/downloads/list">Pomby Version 0.10</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This version has completely re-worked all of the original aphpkb code to use smarty for the site design and PDO for the database connection.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Improvements:<span style="font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>0 Chance of SQL injection</li>
<li>Admin area is now&nbsp;inaccessible&nbsp;to non-admins now (even if they know the url)</li>
<li>Keywords now display in a tag cloud</li>
<li>Install has been made easier</li>
<li>Various minor improvements</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Upgrading:</strong></p>
<p>To upgrade from either aphpkb or pomby version 0.01 run the following sql command on your database and you are all set: "ALTER TABLE &nbsp;`articles` ADD FULLTEXT (`Keyw`);"</p>
<p>This change is fully backwards&nbsp;compatible. if you dont like pomby after installing simply put your aphpkb install back to where it was and you wont notice a thing.</p>
<p><strong>Next Version:</strong></p>
<p>for the next version of the software we will be focusing on security and customizing (but mostly security). We will be going over all of the code to remove all possibilities of cross site scripting and malicious code insertion.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now dont let my above paragraph scare you, all the posts on pomby are already required to be screened by an administrator. &nbsp;this should prevent most malicious code from entering your site.</p>
<p><strong>New Developer:</strong></p>
<p>We have a new developer to the Zachary who will be helping with the look and feel of the site. &nbsp;and in the future doing a lot of javascript work when we come to that point.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Pomby Knowledgebase - The New Project</title><category term="PHP"/><category term="Pomby"/><category term="Pomby"/><id>http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/10/30/pomby-knowledgebase-the-new-project.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/10/30/pomby-knowledgebase-the-new-project.html"/><author><name>Mike Valstar</name></author><published>2009-10-30T18:22:26Z</published><updated>2009-10-30T18:22:26Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>Well my new project is a knowledgebase application. I'm going to be re-writing <a href="http://aphpkb.sourceforge.net/">aphpkb</a> as a new project called <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pomby-knowlegebase/">pomby</a> on google code.</p>
<p>The re-write will consist of a few major design items before i get into all the new little features I want to put in. &nbsp; but in general I will be adding in PDO support and Smarty support for skinning.</p>
<p>The first release is out, So far I have only re-written the installer to work much cleaner then it previously did in aphpkb, and to auto-detect problems.</p>
<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/pomby-knowlegebase/downloads/list">Download it here</a></p>
<p>I would appreciate any suggestions anyone has.</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>First Post!</title><id>http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/10/26/first-post.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mikevalstar.com/news/2009/10/26/first-post.html"/><author><name>Mike Valstar</name></author><published>2009-10-26T23:33:55Z</published><updated>2009-10-26T23:33:55Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>Well I've finally gotten around to writing a blog for myself. keep track of the projects I'm working on and that sort of thing.</p>
<p>I'll be posting about a new Knowledgebase app i've started work on as soon as I can.&nbsp; Stay Tuned!</p>]]></content></entry></feed>