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Over on the behemoth developers blog Dan Paladin has announced that behemoth are working on a new game, after alien hominoid and castle crashers being so much fun I am really looking forward to this release and ofcourse getting to know more about the title.
Anyway, besides knowing that a game is being worked on making me all happy, he has also announced himself as the best blogger of 2009 (http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/?p=508) head over and check out the blog, maybe even there is some real data on the game now? 
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Today I have made some changes to the site:
1. Fixed the pagination system so it is not plugin dependant.
2. Removed ratings system completely
3. Put a spam check captcha in place.
4. Added some tweaks to the gamercard for better output of percentages (now I have a bar graph) and dates (parsing dates to timestamps and rendering from there instead of parsing a string and using that).
I have also decided to make a change to the blog system next time I have the chance:
1. Allow comments to be better formatted, possibly by using RTE in order to ensure ease of use.
2. Check links in comments are valid before creating the A tag. (Complete)
3. Parse all the realurl created links so that the & is replaced with “&”;
4. Create << first and >> last buttons on the pager. (Complete)
5. Only display valid links from comments (Complete)
6. censoring of comments (Complete – though I need to learn more bad words, only censoring four so far lol).
7. 360voice Pagination update (to use blogs plugin pagination) (Complete)
8. Show blog items last edit date (Complete)
Also today I have installed the alpha version of an indexed search function for the blogs. Basically it can search the blogs for a set of words (must be more than 3 letters long) and give back a list of results based on the relevance.
The search function consists of 3 TYPO3 extension plugins, one to handle the form one to handle the results and a backend module which handles the indexing of new and updated blogs.
The search relevance is yet to be based on sentences thus it works only with words currently however if I can think of a clever way to handle phrases without having to run a fulltext search on the blogs table then I will implement that also.
The search system is obviously still to be styled and lacks a pagination feature as yet but apart from that it seems to work.
If you see any errors from the script please give me a note in this blogs comments. Any suggestions are also welcome in the comments .
Over on the behemoth developers blog Dan Paladin has announced that behemoth are working on a new game, after alien hominoid and castle crashers being so much fun I am really looking forward to this release and, of course, getting to know more about the title.
P.S. To change the gaming experience – get yourself a cheap PlayStation 3.
