Map Upload version 0.0.7
25-05-2011 - PlayStuff.net, Java, JQuery, TF2
In the meantime, I accidentally my whole test database! Did this because I installed a WAMP package, that didn't asked anything but just reinstalled MySQL and thus dropped all databases. Boohooo! So being distracted by the lack of a database, I dusted off my old map-administration project, rewrote the map-upload part and made it Beta. This tool should make it easy for all Server Assistants and mappers to upload maps to The MapLab, our community TF2 custom maps server.
It makes use of the JQuery plugin
Uploadify to upload a bz2'ed map to the webserver. Then a
Java Servlet decompresses it and ftps it to our FastFTP and The MapLab servers.
Under construction
08-04-2011 - Converting from Ant to Maven
The task of converting the various website components to Maven is, of course, taking longer than expected.I'm experiencing the following 'challenges':
- Eclipse 3.x fails to properly deploy the dependencies, making tweaking the pom.xml difficult. As a workaround I'm currently using the SpringSource Tool Suite. This is custom build Eclipse especially for Spring-based applications;
- I want the poms to be as generic as possible. A project needs to be able to built everywhere, independently of where I am and on which computer;
- Not all dependencies I'm using are in global Maven repositories. I might be forced to install a local repository;
- Still having problems to install and configure a code repository.
Under construction
24-02-2011 - It is alive!
Website is back up!
Currently I'm rewriting the main website project to use maven and updating all components to their most recent stable version (like Spring, Hibernate and Quartz).
After that the Photo album part needs to be rewritten to use Hibernate too. Currently a major bug forces me to restart the server every day. That is not the way I like it.
