News about this portal

31/01/2007 We are rolling again, after a week's inactivity due to a sudden burst of work :) We have some information about NAS (a candidate for our Top100?), Ubuntu and HPC and one of out chestnuts, a link to a review of a book on building machines to solve problems where it notes that software is hard.

18/01/2007 We have greatly added to the kinds of contributions which people can make - so now in addition to blog you can add stories, pages, books etc.

17/01/2007 We are experimenting with an online chat. Please tell us if you would like the feature.

1/03/2007 Migrated from temp portal (hpc.digitalrocketscience.com) to compute.org.za. Known issues:
* Misdirects to old portal
* banner adds
Otherwise we seem to be OK!

13/03/2007 Removed "Downloads" and "Top 100" Primary Links - a battle to be fought another day, but confusing now. Added Recent comments and blogs.

24/03/2007 Added classifieds from Blue Stallion.

1/4/2007 Sponsorship almost complete, killed DRS temporary hosting, advertise for editorial committee begins and publicise portal. Update sponsors.

16/4/2007 Submissions program added.

1/5/2007 Amelia appointed site administrator.

7/5/2007 RSS link http://www.compute.org.za/rss.xml and Link to CHPC. Added licence under iCommons.

26/5/2007 Financial support from HP.

1/6/2007 Planned Upgrade to Drupal 5.1. Now planned for Aug.

14/6/2007 Notes about vendor specific information

2/7/2007 Google Analytics installed.

9/7/2007 Added news feeds. Permission from news agencies (ongoing).

16/7/2007 Style redesign

23/7/2007 dev site aka sandpit

26/7/2007 Finalise project plan

4/9/2007 Added dev and prod - See note.

4/9/2007 Added 2nd DB for upgrade

?/9/2007 Private / Public sections

18/10/2007 Chat

08/04/2008 Update to Drupal 6.1 then back to 5.7

25/05/2008 Added AddSense

25/05/2008 Revamped the Mission

TODO

* Drupal 5.12 done late Aug

? Login to read private notes - WIP - see dev

* Do sections better - Include a tagged search?

* css redesign

* enforce tags better

* news feeds Make news searcheable. It seems to be archived correctly

* sandpit

* cron update + backup

? news style rather than blog - WIP see dev

* get statistics module working + svn + ...

* rss breakages

* improve user info

* Visitors - IM

* Companies section

* Improve Advertising

* size of logos too big Some bad aliasing.

* make search smaller - put button on rhs

* Make "heading" for user controls

* Increase news list size - put in main frame as public.

* Bullets for headlines

* centre footer

* centre footer logo

* track changes, get revisions module working properly, version control

* public profiles

* trackback - WIP see dev

* sort news by date, ...

* links to SPIN, JCSE, etc

* date of page update

* differentiate h3 from h4

08/04/2008 Add Mimetex

08/04/2008 Calendar