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This is for users of my Audio Player plugin. I have uploaded some changes to the public repository on wp-plugins.org. You can download the latest version of the code here.

I need testers for a new feature I have implemented. Many people use the plugin to include several songs on one page and this can cause problems. The latest version will close any open instances of the player when opening a new one. I have tested this on Firefox 1.5 and IE6.0. Before I release the new version to the public I need to know whether this works in Safari. You can download and install the plugin yourself or you can simply try it on the plugin page. There are two instances of the player on the page so try opening one player after the other and check that the other closes accordingly.

I have just released an update for my Audio Player plugin (version 1.0.1). This update corrects a flaw with the font handling of the plugin. Fonts are no longer embedded which means that the text is no longer blurred and the file size is now only 5K!

I have also updated the documentation to include a note about the chipmunk effect and a link to the full source code. I want this project to remain “open” so that others can have a go at improving it.

I have also set up a bug tracker and will soon open it to the public. I’m hoping that most of the feature requests and bug reports will be handled by this system instead of clogging up the comments on the plugin page (now over 200 comments!).

Again, thanks go to all who left comments and especially Jörn and Christopher Kwok for helping to test the update.

This is still a bit of a mystery, but I’m hoping to get some enlightening comments (that would be cool).

Anyway, we ran into a bit of a performance problem the other day: Verity was apparently spending over 3 seconds to perform a simple search on a relatively small collection. After a lot of time spent placing CFTIMERs all over the place, we concluded that it really was Verity. The only difference with other Verity searches I had built in the past was that we were now using the new category feature that comes with CFMX 7. So we removed the category bit from the search and we went back to a comfortable 30 to 200 ms execution time on the CFSEARCH tag…

I will now repeat. With category search: 3 seconds. Without: less than half a second.

And we were only using 2 categories in the collection so I really don’t know why this happened. We couldn’t spend more time on this problem so we just removed the category system from the search.

Has anybody successfully implemented a Verity search with categories? If you have, I really would like to hear from you.

OK. So I haven’t posted since June… Well, I’m not a born blogger. So what? (Who am I talking to?)

Well, I say I haven’t posted since June, but I have added content to this site recently and it has been very well received indeed. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with ColdFusion or Mach-II. I now have a WordPress section on my code page with a couple of plugins. My Audio player plugin has been particularly successful with a record 54 comments posted so far!

I even have an excuse for not posting since June. Back in February this year (has it really been this long?), we started a complete rewrite of our main project here at Rocom NewMedia. We’re still not done but the whole thing is shaping up nicely. We’re using the Mach-II framework of course with a very nicely designed independent OO model. Hopefully, I should be able to showcase parts of it soon.