Shift IRC

We are now running #shift on irc.freenode.net if anyone would like to join in the IRC chat. Pitch us ideas, yell at us, or just stop in to say hi.

If you already have an irc client installed, just click irc://irc.freenode.net/shift to join in. For those that don't, you can grab the free Colloquy.

See you there.

~ Nate Todd

What do you need from Shift?

Hey guys. Things are going pretty good around the shift campus these days. We just had a very talented coder join up with the project, so we hope to get things moving faster in the near future.

We are starting to compile a list of features that we would like to see in Shift. This list is not limited by reality; Anything we can think or dream of, we're writing down. We realize, however, that Shift will ultimately be used by everybody, so we are opening up this process to community contributions.

Here's the deal:

1. Think hard about what you need from a database manager (nothing is too crazy, but realistic ideas help us all)
2. Write it all down (be descriptive!) in the comments section of this post (we aren't going to open up the wiki for spam reasons)
3. We will copy every idea over to the trac wiki for all to see
4. If desired, comment on the ideas in this thread OR join the public #shift irc channel (info to be disclosed once it is up)
5. We will sort through them and set implementation milestones on the feasible ones (Shift 14.0 anyone?)
6. You get credit in the source code. Not necessarily an incentive, but hopefully a nice "thank you"

The wishlist is currently residing at http://trac.shiftosx.com/wiki/WishList.

If you want a say in how Shift moves forward, speak now or forever hold your peace. (Ok, that's not really true...)

~ Shift

Yes, 64 is bigger than 32.

Well, I don't want to speak too soon, but this is pretty cool. We are targeting 10.5 so we figured, hey, why not?

(Click image for larger version)

~ Nate

New Icon

Lauren has been working on an icon set for Shift for several weeks now. We would like to introduce the new icon for Shift.

As always, please let us know of any suggestions or comments.

Ticket #98: Blog Spam

Ok, we have been upgrading chyrp as it plows along to v2.0. I must say, it's not bad as blogging software goes, but the database is rather embarrassing. There is a groups table and a permissions table, but instead of joining those with an associative entity there is just a list of permissions in a permissions field in the groups table. Not joking.

Anyway, one of the changes as of late was the migration from Akismet to Defensio for spam blocking. Can't say I'm too happy about that because now everything is marked as spam. However, we get about 50 real spam messages a day, so not using it really isn't an option.

So, until we take a look at fixing things (or redesigning this whole site), just know that your messages may get marked as spam. We will just keep checking in on them and approving any valid messages.

Thanks, Nate