Seagull News

Seagull Framework with memcached sessions

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:38:19 -0500

Hello devs,

beginning of September we did a relatively big relaunch of our podcast
portal. Changes included switching from the DB based navigation to the
array driver, using Horde Routes instead of a self-written url driver
amongst many other things which all helped to improve performance.

Sessions were the one thing I was still unhappy with. Neither file

Easily build an API for your application with the tools provided in Seagull

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:51:00 -0500

Those of you following Seagull System's Doris product might have noticed we released an API to the service last month.

As some of our techie users will have guessed, we’ve had an API (Application Programming Interface) for Doris working for some time now, that’s the reason you can use a range of clients (iPhone, Dashboard widget, Opera widget) to access and update your account data.

But starting today we’ve made the API publicly available, see for yourself by checking out the Doris API documentation.

Interesting workaround for Horde_Routes Gotcha

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:54:00 -0600

Ed recently filed a bug with the guys over at Horde following an issue he was having configuring a route with 2 variables in one section, separated by an underscore, eg:

/some/example/:myVar_:anotherVar

Chuck Hagenbuch, the main man over at Horde, responded with a helpful workaround.

Kindo Acquired by MyHeritage

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:04:03 -0500

I didn't get a chance yet to blog about our last TechCrunching, but Kindo, the startup I co-founded in March 2007, today announced its sale to MyHeritage, the biggest player in the family tree space.

Kindo is a PHP social net app built on the Seagull framework and other open source software. At peak popularity our users were building 38k profiles/day and we acquired more than 1m profiles in our first 10 weeks. More details on my CV.

Hats off to the Kindo team and to the Kindo devs who don't appear in the TC photo.

Join the Seagull LinkedIn Group

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:55:51 -0500

I just setup a LinkedIn group for Seagull developers, this network tool has become very powerful and is beginning to be indispensable for technology professionals.

Please check it out and sign up if it suits you. The group provides Seagull developers a chance to share their business contacts.

CMS multi-language support ready

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:43:00 -0500

We're happy to announce a great new feature available in the CMS module:

> CMS multi-language support

Seagull CMS 1.5 released

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:53:00 -0500

Hot on the heals of 0.6.5 we have prepared an exciting new release of
the CMS module:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms

A lot of exciting new features have been built into the 1.5 release,
here's a quick overview:

Seagull 0.6.5 Released

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:49:00 -0500

I'm happy to announce 0.6.5 was released yesterday, please update your
existing installs, the code is available in the usual place:

http://seagullproject.org/download/

According to Trac this release contains 13 enhancements and fixes for
26 defects, although there was a lot of internal cleanup and small
features added that were not documented.

New comment2 module released, using jquery

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:47:56 -0500

I just added the new comment2 module which basically demonstrates Ajax with jQuery. Check it out, with this approach you can create a lot of functionality with very little code. Some docs are available here:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Comment2

You need the latest bugfix svn to see it at work, the 0.6.5 release will be coming out soon.

Running Seagull with a user table from another project

seagull@seagullproject.org (Demian Turner) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:31:00 -0500

Had this question come up in the forum, and in fact it's very easy to
do, have many instances of Seagull running on user tables from other
projects/software. Makes migrating a project easier, plus a pleasant
surprise for you boss to get detailed Seagull user handling from one
of his old crappy projects ;-)

Here's one way of doing it: