Two data plugins done

I have just finished rewriting two old data plugins – User and Rating – into a much nicer implementation The new plugin classes are fully tested and will be included in the next alpha release.

During development, however, I came to the decision that all functions that returns an error code/array when an operation fails should throw an exception instead (except the validate function, which returns any errors). The Wigbi AJAX handler should then always return a [result, error] result, which the Wigbi.ajax callback method will always receive as a parameter.

This makes it possible to implement a really clean solution, where server exceptions and AJAX errors are exposed in the same way. I will rewrite my code so that it behaves in this way, which will be the big difference between the alpha 1 and 2 releases.

New wigbi.com and wigbi.com/demos up soon

I have rewritten wigbi.com and wigbi.com/demos and will release them together with Wigbi 0.99.2.

The new versions of the web sites feature the possibility to rate and discuss various parts of the page. The demo site lets visitors discuss and rate each class that is included in the Wigbi framework, while the official site, for now, lets visitors discuss and rate the various video tutorials that are available.

The new official web site also makes use of the new RssFeedEntryList control to display feeds from the WordPress blog.

New Rating seed and RatingBar control

I have created two cool plugin classes, which makes it possible to rate just about anything in any Wigbi application – the Rating seed and the RatingBar control. They will be available in Wigbi 0.99.2.