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Name: David Dahl
Location: San Francisco, CA

Firefox Engineer at Mozilla Corp

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Screenshots of new UI and functionality

New detail screen, shows the keyword extraction and 'related documents' button.
Related Documents are fetched inline while you are still reading the current entry.




Unicode Examples: Chinese and Japanese:





rCache is now fully unicode. I know a lot of potential users have been turned off by the old database that could not handle anything but latin-1.

More to come, including workflow video captures.


David

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Done Coding, Started Testing The Deployment

So I am done with the design updates and features - for now. I have started to test the deployment to the new server. I will also need to test the Firefox extension. As soon as I am done testing I will push this out to the server and update the DNS. Of course, the minor bug and formatting problems that keep popping up are making this process longer than I thought.

I originally planned some simple UI changes, and I ended up re-working all of the search and indexing tools. The changelog will be very interesting.

Fingers crossed I push it out early this week.

David

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Getting ready to push an update

I was doing a simple redesign and adding the ability to translate rCache's user interface into other languages, but, I have been adding more and more functionality to the development version.

I have decided to push out what I have completed very soon in order to get user feedback. I don't want to code for too many weeks with out some additional users letting me know what is good and what is not so good:)

rCache will be a bit of a work in progress, but I am sure you will like the new UI and indexing features.

So, in the next few days to week there may be some short spurts of downtime as I push out an update and actually move the servers to new hardware.

Thank you for you patience in advance,

David

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