So far this week I’ve managed a little bit of everything.
The biggest achievement being adding the IP.Converge installer. Rikki designed and Josh wrote a fairly generic IPS installer framework which I’ve tweaked for IP.Converge. It’s a really nice system that will be used for IPB and IPD to give a familiar look and feel to our products.
I’ve adjusted it so that most of the database population is done via XML files to reduce the amount of “raw” SQL commands in an insert.php file. Manual inserts can be tricky when database schematics change, etc. IP.Converge only has one such manual insert SQL command which makes things much easier to maintain.
IPB 2.2 continues nicely. IP.Converge integration is totally finished and the new ACP in place. IP.Dynamic rolls on well, too. I’ve added a few “system” type tools to make maintenance easier. IP.Dynamic has certain ’system’ pages (log in form, registration form, etc) and these can now be updated from a single XML file.
Keep an eye out for some announcements next week.
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March 22, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Ronan O'Flaherty
I can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to IP.D, I really wnt to try that out on my site!
March 22, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Wilko
Looks nice, Mac style installer
March 22, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Peter Goodman
You’re going all out on the OSX-like GUI. You’re also doing it very well.
March 22, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Myr
Looks good. I can’t wait to get it all.
March 22, 2006 at 5:55 pm
James
Nice installer. You still can’t see it properly (WinXP) on the Nexus installer - is this fixed since you’ve been tweaking it?
March 22, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Matt Tavares
[quote]You’re going all out on the OSX-like GUI. You’re also doing it very well. :D[/quote]
it looks almost nothing like the OSX GUI, and the icons resemble that of a windows vista/xp style
but anyway, gj Matt none the less
March 22, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Wilko
[quote]it looks almost nothing like the OSX GUI, and the icons resemble that of a windows vista/xp style
but anyway, gj Matt none the less[/quote]
The way its layed out is the same as the OS X installer.
March 22, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Brandon
Announcements.
Hopefully for Nexus Public Beta. :-”
March 22, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Don Wilson
The style of this installer is a generic look of a typical installer package. It’s not WinXP or Mac only.
March 22, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Rikki
As Don said, in reality most system installers look the same. I’d say it looks more like XP simply because it uses the IPB gradient, but it wasn’t a concious decision to ‘copy’ either one while I worked on it. It was a requirement I set myself that it should be familiar to users though, so that played a part.
March 23, 2006 at 12:10 am
Peter Goodman
I think it looks great. I recently switched to mac so that struck me as something I often see.
March 23, 2006 at 11:47 am
Logan
It’s about time for a new installer!
Looks great.
March 23, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Michael
Now we just need an IPA and you’re on your way to conquer the alphabet.
March 25, 2006 at 9:36 pm
malikyte
I’m thinking the A is for Administrators. IP.Administrators - they are the superheroes that control the other letters of the alphabet…or perhaps it’s just Invision Power Alphabet-Soup?
March 26, 2006 at 12:11 am
Peter Goodman
IP.Alphabet
IP.Anything
IP.Amazing
IP.Absolute
IP.Atomic
IP.Aaaaaahh
IP.AmIClose
?
October 25, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Ice
Hi Matt, I was searching for answers on the web when i stumbled upon your page. since your entries say so much about IPB, i’d just like to ask… what is an IPB image? Why can’t I view images on my browser, but instead, in the place of those images, i see text that read “IPB Image”. I’d really appreciate it if you could give me a hand on this. Much thanks.