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FatCatMap Labs

##Change Log

Thu, June 02 2011 version tag 1-alpha

• The platform is nearing a place where it can be used. Along with the new version tag:
• some git spring cleaning
• including some new FCM graphics
• a meaninfgul README
• cleaned up configuration and app.yaml files (with comments)
• a whole bunch of new debug and dev tools.
• removed old JSONRPC/JSONRPCDispatcher code (completely using ProtoRPC now)
• installed AppTrace and AppStats
• installed a warmup script
• added a directory for platform docs

Tue, May 31 2011

• Installed Fancybox
• Installed jQuery easing and mousewheel plugins
• testing out new striped background
• new functionality to inject a manifest attribute for offline caching
• repackaged 'content' handlers into subpackages of momentum.fatcatmap.handlers (along with matching template directory structure)
• moved news explorer to Visualize section
• added 'site' URLs and matching handlers (sections for about, legal, help, etc)
• added better momentum menu context links
• Added new asset handlers and a skip block to the app.yaml
• stability and readability improvements to the JavaScript API
• middleware layer for AppStats enabled and seperately configurable for the services (ProtoRPC) and main site (Tipfy) layers
• made small tweaks to templates, including a link from the 'mapper' header on each page to the map

Mon, May 30 2011

• New wireframe on main.Landing for a 'News Explorer'
• Moved all font dependencies to local style/fonts folder for accurate dev server testing
• Added FCM header icons for browse, search, etc
• Small interface tweaks and bug fixes

Sat, May 28 2011

• Moved ProtoRPC to buildout process
• moved NDB back to app root
• added node/edge type recognition to recursive Grapher
• added scripting to add base Edge/Node/Object types and related Schema items

Thu, May 26 2011

• New interface for inbox messages (replaces Notiications concept)
• branding/version/dev watermark placed at the bottom of the page
• Stability and cohesiveness improvements to the JavaScript API
• rewritten AJAX RPC mechanism (without reliance on JSONRPC for jQuery)
• new custom template loader (momentum.fatcatmap.core.output) with template source caching in fastcache (instance memory) and memcache
• new JS layout code written to maximize page sidebars
• new graph JS written to browse to a node

Wed, May 25 2011

• ProtoRPC structure for APIs now in place,
• JavaScript API is functional and performing RPCs
• new favicon and logo
• new handlers and code space for backends (momentum.platform)
• unified classes at the top level (MomentumHandler, MomentumService)

Fri, May 13 2011

• New JavaScript API (alpha) with plumbing for easy RPC/API calls
• JS codespace for visualization control/page control
• abstracted interfaces to local browser resources like storage and SVG
• added config values to control minification, optimization, and location of script assets
• Yep/Nope code added to parallelize and control JS loading, along with Modernizr for feature detection

Sun, May 08 2011

• Working Tipsy-based tooltips
• config entries for assets manager (allows programmatic activation/deactivation of minification, optimization, and switching to compiled assets)
• piping laid (but not yet connected) for the new JS API

Tue, May 03 2011

• Added a ton of JavaScript libraries
• automatic library loading with YepNope
• and starting in on the details pane/settings pane sidebars

Sat, April 30 2011

• More reliable Struct framework. Tested with args, kwargs, and slots
• Working interface to the Indexer.
• Update to NDB, update to ProtoRPC
• working indexer adapter parent class
• Indexer correctly makes use of Indexers and yields Entry SimpleStructs)
• struct framework updated and improved
• beginning support for ImmutableStructs and ComplexStructs.

Fri, April 29 2011

• Installed ProtoRPC
• created a script to automatically update appropriate Google Code libs
• working StringIndexer with proper indexer inheritance tree

Sat, April 24 2011

• Cleaned up Git repository (hopefully)
• re-wrote front end base template using the HTML5 Boilerplate
• created AssetsMixin for easy URL construction to link to assets in templates
• cleaned up assets folder and linked properly in config.py

Fri, April 22 2011

• Installed newer versions of NDB Map/Reduce and Pipelines
• Created an update_libraries script to do this easily in the future
• Proprietary struct framework (probably about to be replaced with ProtoRPC...(LOL)
• NDB moved to application root & pipeline bugs fixed
• about to update all core libraries (pipelines, mapreduce, ndb) and install protorpc

Sun, April 10 2011

• Tons of changes...
• committing for developer's meeting and will document soon

Thu, March 24 2011

• Added var/downloads folder for compatibility with new development environments.
• Added bin/ and var/ folders for compatibility with new development environments.
• Moved lovely JSONRPC to lib (patched modifications), removed incompatible packages from the buildout.cfg
• Moved NDB to app root (fixed NDB reload bug during pipeline execution), cleaned up queues, added Dev menus

Wed, March 23 2011 version tag 2-dev

• Version increment
• Working pipelines and grapher.

Sat, March 12 2011

• New momentum and fcm graphics (improved dummy UI)
• Framework for FCM pipelines
• new graph write pipelines (framework)
• new jquery plugins

Tue, March 08 2011

• Fixed PolyModel inheritance issues
• created initial default data package (based on previous versions)
• Filled out simple properties for graph-related data models.

Mon, March 07 2011

• Initial commit.