News March 2021
xbFilms Release Candidate 3 v0.4.1 available for download and test.
xbBooks Release Candidate 2 v0.7.0 available for download and test.
Both of these are now packages which include a common support component, xbPeople, that facilitates the sharing of people and characters between Books and Films
In other news work has now started on xbGigs which will be a new member of the xbCulture family optimised for details of live gigs - music and spoken word performances
xbCulture Components
The xbCulture Components are a family of closely related Joomla Component Extensions which are designed to keep a record or catalogue of artistic/creative/cultural works,
The primary intended users are individuals, like myself, who wish to keep a record of books, films, plays, gigs, exhibitions and similar events that they have experienced.
There are initially three core components and a common supporting component in the family, although there are ideas for extending it into further areas.
xbFilms - film catalogue
20th February 2021
xbFilms is a component for cataloguing books you have read and reviews of them. Version 0.4.1 should still not really be used on production sites (although I am ;-) ). It now comes as a package with a supporting component, xbPeople, for administration of people and characters which may be shared with xbBooks.
The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of films they have seen with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was.
Edit Hide/Highlight Package
23rd July 2019
xbEdHideLight is a spin-off from xbFootnoteTag which provides the facility to highlight or hide text in the editor (TinyMCE or JCE) WYSIWYG view whilst having no effect on the front end article display.
I find Highlighting is useful for marking sections of text that need revision or updating later, and I use Hiding to conceal long shortcodes that clutter up the edit view once they are working.
xbBooks - book catalogue
29th January 2021
xbBooks is a component for cataloguing books you have read and reviews of them. Version 0.6.8 is the current release candidate, it should still really not be used on production sites (although I am ;-) ). The functionality for v1.0 stable Release is all in place, albeit with plenty of rough edges and room for improvements.
It started out as I needed something to replace a flat-file database I had been using to save details of books I read and short reviews/comments. Previous to that I had been using a simple spreadsheet and originally an paper file.
Footnote Tag Package
15th July 2019
xbFootnoteTag was originally created to assist with creating and maintaining references, or other recurring snippets of information in articles. As well as generating conventional footnotes (linked by either a number or a citation title) since we are in a hypertext environment it makes sense to provide an option to have the reference appear as a popover either instead of or as well as a footnote (footnotes work better if the article gets printed).
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