Hi all,

We'll do our 3rd weekly live chat on December 2nd at 7pm-9pm GMT (1pm-3pm CST).

Our weekly live chat is a chat about Composr Deploying, Designing and Developing, open to any one who wants to attend. It's a great way to meet other Composr users, influence development, and get some free support from the busy developers. If you don't get a decent reply on something on the forum or IRC, the live chat is the best place to ask.

Agenda:

• Main topic: Advanced techniques with the main_multi_content block (by request)
• Community questions: the best way to corner me and get some free step-by-step support or even some coding (if we can cover it within the allotted time of course)
  • Write your questions in this topic
  • … or just ask them live
• Random quick issues: from the tracker (I tagged one's I thought we could cover quickly)

As always, the link is https://meet.jit.si/Composr. We'll also post a copy of the stream soon after it's concluded for those cannot attend.

See you there .

For those who couldn't join us, here is the recording of this weekend's chat, edited for easier viewing:



Timestamps:
- Creating a blurred Spoiler tag: 1:55
- Tempcode + regular expression syntax: 11:18
- Running shell commands through Commandr: 18:03
- Adding top and bottom forum panels: 26:00
- Rewording calendar edit strings: 28:38
- Discussing calendar double-post prevention: 39:46
- Discussing forum group URLs: 42:45
- Implementing contextual searching: 44:36
- Adding unit tests for third-party components: 59:40

So week 3 turned out pretty chaotic, because I was pretty tired and at the tail end of some IT disaster relating to my iMac, and also we had to do a last minute agenda change that made me stumble a bit for what to cover.
Apple had a really bad security bug recently where you could (basically) log into any machine without a password - and after installing their rushed security update, it corrupted my email accounts, and the stress of re-downloading and re-indexing all my many GB of email corrupted my SSD, forcing me to do a complete system reinstall. Then in the live chat MySQL was crashing on my clean Homebrew installation of it due to this MySQL bug

At the end of the talk I was implementing a unit test and got stuck. That turned out due to an extra layer of internal caching in lang_filter_EN.php that I'd forgotten about. My final unit test is in this commit: https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/41146975c078acd64737f3d3dc04fced5f77056c

Jacob has been kind enough to heavily edit down the video though and prepare a time index to make it flow better. Regardless of the issues, we did actually get quite a few things done. Maybe my struggling around with things will be a little inspiring that even I have to fight through a jungle of problems sometimes .

Here's an index of github commits relating to the chat:

• Shell command support in Commandr
• US English unit test
• Improved calendar recurrence language
• Improved double post detection (discussed in the chat, but I implemented myself the next day)

Here's a diff for the code for the contextual search:

I'd tagged a lot of tracker issues to cover in chats, but really it would be better if we had a clearer view of what was useful to people. So please vote on the issues you care about most (click "Monitor"), and then we can look to see what is top-voted next Saturday !

Glad I added the US English unit test, as it had actually broken in v10.1 and the test picked it up