SmallNews 1.0 and 2.0b1

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Two new versions of SmallNews available today.

v1.0 is actually just the same as v0.4, but is renamed to reflect the fact it’s the last release of this branch of the application.

v2.0b1 represents includes several major enhancements:

Articles can be saved in a database (either built-in SQLite, or external MySQL)
Articles can then be retrieved by their id, and posted to Twitter or Facebook
New handler for The Independent
Reorganisation of the user interface (see here for screenshot)

The database feature requires a bit of explaining – look out for a post on that soon.

However, there are some features not yet finished. Hopefully they are clearly marked in the application, but they are:

Creating a PDF or sending an e-mail of an article retrieved from the database
Purging old articles from the database
Scheduled creation of the newspaper
Handler for The Telegraph
Fix to the handler for The Independent, as the images do not layout correctly in the PDF version.

I hope to add/fix all of these shortly and release another beta version.

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