Our Reviews Developer Blog

Lots has gotten done. Create review all works, as does accounts and confirming information. The API has gotten a bit mangled along the way, so that’s going to have to be straightened out before I work on more features. The version is the repo is pretty much a working version, just has some missing pages and features. Especially the send page.

I’ve got a testing site @ testing.ouruno.com and a bug reporter @ bugs.ouruno.com. If you go play with these PLEASE only use the username “jmhobbs”. You can use the nukeUser.php to clean out jmhobbs on the user table if you need to.

OurReviews is slowly but surely taking form. I’ve got all the core classes written, except for their “save” methods. All of the “display” pages written and working (as far as I can tell). And 7 of the 9 process pages for writing a review are done and in. I left spaces around the create reviews process so that I can add hooks for other things later, like books, etc.

Getting close!

I decided to change the license on OurReviews prior to the first release. All code will now be licensed under a Creative Commons license that does not allow commercial use. I decided to change this license because I want this software to be for college communities, to support students, not to turn a profit on them. I don’t mind advertising, as long as it goes to supporting the site. So there you go.

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Made the first commit to the repo. Theres a bunch of junk in there that isn’t needed, but I’ll clean it up when I get closer to final commit. No easy peasy installers here, and none on the horizon.

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So, I redid the databases for the wiki-style editing. To match I’ve had to rewrite pretty much the whole site. The upside here is that it’s all being contained in classes, so there is less duplicate code and it’s easier to understand in the long run.

I’d say I’m 30% done. I’ve gotten most of the “easy” tasks out of the way and have my methodology of getting and passing information around pretty much figured out. More updates as they come.

It’s been a long time since I posted here. OurReviews is in a sluggish pre-release phase. Everything is on Smarty now, but I’m restructuring the database for a wiki style editing system so administrators can roll back destructive edits to teacher info, class descriptions, etc.

Right now I’m not planning on internationalization, it’s just not a priority. I doubt this software will see high circulation at any rate.

And so we soldier on.

Got a wordpress install for the dev end of things. Not quite ready with anything as my schedule is a little crazy right now always crazy. I’ve got a SourceForge project set up, and I’m about half-way to converting the current kit to an open, templated version. We’ll see.