A Fresh Start

[wasted]

As you all noticed by now, the previous news post was a while ago, and the project has slept since then.

Untill 4 weeks ago, it woke up.

There's a new spark of energy in the development team, and this is our first release. New guy on the block is called bobL.

We are happy to announce a new version of the Windows client (1.6), the first public Mac OS X client (1.1) and a new version of the website.

Here's a small list of the major features added:

Website:
- Overhaul of visual aspects.
- ICEPAY donation system. (phone, sms, ideal, wiretransfer, etc)
- Referral system; Gather more statistics by referring your friends.
- Knowledge Base to fit the style of the main website.

Windows: 1.6
- Optimized the data inside WhatPulse.wpw to minimize corruption.
- Store WhatPulse.wpw inside a Windows assigned place. (fixes problems with Vista)
- Brand new login window. (for existing accounts and registering accounts)
- Ability to determine the place of stats inside the geek window. (will be made easier)
- Redirected server communication through port 80 again.
- A lot of bugfixes.

'Pulse profiles' have been renamed to 'Computers' to make more sense.

Expect a better version release system!

With the release of 1.6, all previous versions before 1.5 (1.4.x) will be disabled in 4 weeks. Please upgrade before 12 may, otherwise you will not be able to pulse anymore!

A word on a Linux version: I have started work on a Linux client myself, and will probaly release an alpha or beta in a few months. (for real this time. )

[Jon]

Ah all cool stuff, like what you've done by making things more logical and what not. Good luck with the Linux client, I kinda feel I'm in the deep end developing in Linux. Should have picked a much easier thing to attempt being that its the first time I've used Linux for development. But it will be an experience, all for the best I guess!

[citricsquid]

I've been using whatpulse for 24 months now and it's a brilliant project. I'm glad you're getting back into the swing of things, it has such potential as a big thing. Just a couple of points;
1. The API no longer works, my site uses the API to keep up on my total typing and it's failing because the file no longer exists.
2. The pulse profiles, even though they're a good idea, have messed up slightly. Because you integrated them after (afaik) I signed up, I've got a 'void' where 7 million keys have disappeared because they're not from a profile, so they don't show up on the nice little charts, is it possible to fix this?

In fact, "Warning: file_get_contents([whatpulse.org/api/user.php?UserID=210575]) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out" might be a problem on my end regarding the API, I'll have a look.

Keep up the good work guys

([] brackets around URL because I can't post links, it does have ht t p :// before it on my site.

[Quarzi]

Great Scott!

Nice to see something happening here again.

[X-Kal]

Woo! Excellent! So... in four weeks, 1.4.x will be disabled? What is the fate of 1.5? (I actually don't know the answer to this, yet)

[bobL]

1.5 doesn't have a fate just yet. When 1.6.* is stable enough, 1.5 will probably get a cut-off date but I doubt it will be any time soon.

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by wasted

With the release of 1.6, all previous versions before 1.5 (1.4.x) will be disabled in 4 weeks. Please upgrade before 12 may, otherwise you will not be able to pulse anymore!

In 4 weeks it's April 12th, not May 12th

[The Lost Faith]

http://thelostfaith.net/?p=12

Thats the code I used a while back, should still work