Well 2006 is almost over and I thought I would share what I have learned this year as a project lead as well as give you a sneak peak at the future.         First off - this project is not dead, not at all. We have not moved as quickly as I had hoped. I feel that this is my fault and one that can and does plague the Open Source community in general. One of the reasons this happens is because we are volunteers. It is very easy to say "I will do it tomorrow" after a long day at work. Why is this you ask? Because...

I would like to take the time to welcome a new team member, Matt Kellogg. Matt is a .net programmer for CrystalTech Web Hosting and I have had the pleasesure of working daily with him for over a year. He is very bright and brings many new and innovative ideas to the table. Please help me welcome him to the Links family.

Well it is almost here, I just delivered the latest version of the links module to the Release Tracker. This is the start of the release process which culminates with the release being given the platinum benefactors, then released the the community. This version has actually been done for several weeks, but due to some mis-communication on my part with my Core Team Liason it was delayed.

This release is considered a maintenance release as it provides only bug fixes. The one enhancement is actually the...

Sorry for the delay but my work schedule has been somewhat hectic. There are two outstanding issues with the links module at this time. They are:

Checking to see if the username exists when selecting a user as a link Re-working of the Export / Import function. This function currently does not export enough info to properly import a link. The information it is missing is related to updating a link via the URLController. So if you have "new window" checked, it will import that setting properly, but will...

Well it would appear that our first release is right around the corner. This is a maintenance release that addresses issues that were logged in Gemini. There are a few still left to complete, but they will be wrapped up this weekend. If you have an issue and it has not been logged into gemini, then this is your last chance to get it in before the code base is locked.

After this release we will start programming new features into the module. Please see the forum for the road map and vision for the project....

Quick fix for issue [LNK-3916] - Cannot edit links when database owner is not 'dbo'

As of right now, I am wrapping up a side project for a client. Unfortunately while I was waiting for approval as the project lead, I took on a couple of side projects so this has lead to the slow start. This project will go completely crazy with activity starting Aug 19th. All is set for the last client to be wrapped up on the 18th so we will be rocking and rolling. I do plan on listing the daily progress of the module in the project forums for it. As bugs are fixed, they will be linked in the forum post so that all can see them. Some of the bugs date as far back as 2004, while others date only a few weeks.

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Well it would seem my blog got a little messed up there and I had to clean it up. In the process I deleted the post about the game plan. So here we go again.Game PlanThe way I see it, this module is in need of a serious kick in the pants. Bugs have been reported and not officially addressed or have been corrected, but not taken out of Gemini. Due to this, the first order of business once I am familiar with the development process here, is to address all of the reported bugs. We currently have 7 bugs reported...