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The first final beta release of SiteSync 2.0 now comes with real documentation. Any feedback on this is appreciated as well :). The amount of bugs discovered in the last couple of versions has been pretty minimal, so I have focused a lot on improving the localization process, in preparation of implementing in it phpCoder 2008 next. The localization editor has been improved, SiteSync should now make all of it's controls available for translation, and a new localization area at tswusers.net has been prepared. I hope that you will all share your localization work as much as possible. Also, a new menu item in SiteSync makes it possible to easily browse and download language files. If there are any problems with all the new stuff I've added, then be sure to let me know. I would like to mention once again, that new language files will be rewarded with a free TSW SiteSync commercial license.

Download TSW SiteSync 2.0 final beta 1 - please provide feedback in the beta forum

Download TSW Localization Editor - more information here, please provide feedback in the beta forum

As mentioned in the first beta post, free licenses will be given to the best betatesters for either TSW WebCoder 2007 or TSW phpCoder 2008 as well as SiteSync 2.0, once the final version has been released.

Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.

During the last couple of weeks, I have been working on implementing localization in SiteSync 2.0. I built the localization system from scratch, so it fits the TSW applications the best, and may later be implemented in TSW phpCoder and TSW WebCoder. This means that SiteSync can be easily translated into other languages, and I hope that you will all help me by doing just that. This whole localization thing is still very much beta, but I have tested it quite a bit, and it should be stable enough for you to do the same. Once SiteSync goes into final, I will be happy to give away free licenses in exchange for proper language files, so this is your chance to get a head start on it :)

First of all, you need the latest beta version of SiteSync from the link below. Besides the new localization system, it includes a range of bug fixes, found in beta 2. You also need the new TSW Localization Editor, which can be found below as well. The editor includes a README file which explains how to localize the application. To test it, SiteSync 2.0 beta 3 comes with a new Settings button in the main interface, which lets you change the language. It simply lists the files found in the new "languages" folder, so please put your test language file in there. Right now, it's all very simple - you can change the language, but only for the current session. The next time you start SiteSync, the language will be English, but you can't change back to the default language in the middle of a session. This will all be a bit more polished for the final version, but it will do for testing purposes :)

As mentioned, the localization part is still very much beta, so feel free to suggest improvements to the Localization Editor and the localization process as well.

Download TSW SiteSync 2.0 beta 3 - please provide feedback in the beta forum

Download TSW Localization Editor - please provide feedback in the beta forum

As mentioned in the first beta post, free licenses will be given to the best betatesters for either TSW WebCoder 2007 or TSW phpCoder 2008 as well as SiteSync 2.0, once the final version has been released.

Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.

I'm happy to announce a new maintenance release of TSW WebCoder 2007, version 7.07. This release of WebCoder comes with the following changes:

• A minor bug in the settings dialog, related to preview browsers, was fixed
• When auto completing the end tag, WebCoder will now respect case settings as defined in the default HTML tag configuration
• Fixed a bug in the CSS Code Inspector, related to the background property
• Improved the CSS Code Inspector to make it work better with style attributes on tags within a block of PHP code
• Fixed a minor bug in the Image Explorer thumbnail dialog, and improved on the aspect ratio formula used, to make it work better
• Changed the Save As dialog to work more logical
• Fixed a problem where scripts would be read with a wrong encoding, causing special characters to disappear - scripts will now be loaded with the user defined encoding, as selected in the Settings dialog
• Added the same application for easy access to application and settings directory as introduced in phpCoder 2008 version 1.01
• Added the same technology for logging errors as introduced in phpCoder 2008 version 1.02

To upgrade, simply go to the WebCoder product page and download the application. Install it on top of the previous version, that should cause no problems. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

Beta 2 is here, and I'm pleased to tell you that we have already fixed quite a list of issues. This release offers both bugfixes and improvements, pretty much all over the application. Have a look in the beta forum, if you're curious about what has changed. Keep up the good work, guys :)

Download TSW SiteSync 2.0 beta 2 - please provide feedback in the beta forum

As mentioned in the first beta post, free licenses will be given to the best betatesters for either TSW WebCoder 2007 or TSW phpCoder 2008 as well as SiteSync 2.0, once the final version has been released.

Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.03 of TSW phpCoder 2008. It comes with a new feature called test mappings:

Test mappings allow you to test one or several files using another URL than the standard, servermapped version. This is especially useful in these cases:

• When you're using URL rewriting and wish to call the re-written URL instead of the actual file
• When you wish to always test a file (or several files) with a set of parameters
• When you wish to debug include files - you can simply call the file that includes it instead of the actual file

Test mappings can be defined on projects, and they support wildcards, which allows you to map e.g. a whole directory of files to a specific URL. A specific toolbar button has been added to the preview toolbar, allowing you to manage test mappings for the active project, if any. Feedback on this new piece of functionality would be much appreciated.

Besides that, TSW phpCoder 2008 version 1.03 comes with the following changes:

• Notices from PHP during debugging will now be handled differently - instead of halting the execution, phpCoder will try to continue and the notice messages will be shown in the application statusbar
• The search/replace dialog was always visible when active, even if phpCoder had been minimized
• Better handling of &$parameters in function parameters
• Better support for constants in IntelliSense and other IntelliSense related improvements
• Fixed a problem with some characters in the error reporting tool introduced in the previous version

To upgrade, simply go to the phpCoder product page and download the application. Install it on top of the previous version, that should cause no problems. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

I'm very proud to announce the first beta version of the upcoming TSW SiteSync 2.0. As mentioned in a previous blog post, this version includes a big number of changes. A lot of the very important parts of the application has been re-written, to support SFTP and FTPS as well as regular FTP, and to gain a more responsive interface. This means that we need a thorough betatesting, which is why I would like to promise a number of free commercial licenses to the best betatesters of SiteSync 2.0. Since WebCoder/phpCoder and SiteSync are such fine partners, the free licenses will cover either TSW WebCoder 2007 or TSW phpCoder 2008 as well as SiteSync 2.0.

Download TSW SiteSync 2.0 beta 1- please provide feedback in the beta forum

I'm really looking forward to hearing what you think of it! This is the first version, so besides finding bugs, be sure to look for things that you would like to see implemented before the final version - I'm open for suggestions :)

Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.

This blog post is all about the next version of TSW SiteSync. I'm almost done with my TODO list, which turned out to be quite long. This is a list of the changes I have made so far:

Most important changes

• Support for FTP, SFTP and FTPS throughout the entire application
• More responsive interface - no more frozen dialogs
• Transfers, comparisons and synchronizations can now be canceled
• Watch mode now supports auto-sync and can be minimized to the Windows notification area
• Built-in support for testing wildcard and regular expression based exclusion rules against the files of your site
• Find files for upload dialog - quickly find a specific set of files for upload, based on their filename or their last modified date
• Updated FTP client, with more informative interface and a transfer queue
• The final version will have real documentation, as seen in WebCoder and phpCoder

Minor changes

• More stable transfers. SiteSync will try to ignore non-fatal errors and just continue with the next file, and try to automatically re-connect when a sudden disconnection happens
• See which exclusion rule were applied to a specific file or folder
• Filter exclusion rules can now be imported from other SiteSync sites
• See properties for remote files and folders (including subfiles and subfolders) in the FTP client
• The synchronization dialog now supports doing only downloading or only uploading for a single session, for a two-way site
• Filter options in the exclusion rule dialog - show only files or only folders, for a better overview
• Same application for easy access to application and settings directory as introduced in phpCoder 2008 version 1.01
• Same technology for logging errors as introduced in phpCoder 2008 version 1.02
• A list of minor bugs have been fixed, found by me and a number of dedicated SiteSync users (thank you!)

This is what I have so far, besides the things that are too small to mention. If all goes well, I will have the first beta version ready for you guys pretty soon. If you have any suggestions, then be sure to let me know :)

My good friend Jeff Sabarese just sent me this nifty phpCoder 2008 button. If you feel like linking to phpCoder, and I really hope that you do, this button might make it cooler :)

You can insert it like this:

<a href="http://www.tsware.net/phpcoder.php" title="TSW phpCoder - Advanced PHP IDE"><img src="http://www.tsware.net/images/madewith/phpcoder2008.png" alt="TSW phpCoder - Advanced PHP IDE" style="border: 0" /></a>

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.02 of TSW phpCoder 2008. It comes with the following changes:

• AutoProposal lists can now be confirmed with the Tab key as well
• Project based include directories can now be recursive, to allow for automatic inclusions of subfolders and thereby files
• A bug, which caused the debug interface to not be changed under certain conditions, was fixed
• A couple of minor PHP Tidy bugs were fixed
• HTML end tags will now be completed with the correct casing, according to the HTML tag settings
• Updates through the database result window would cause an exception if the user didn't have the required rights - a nicer message has been implemented

Besides that, a new error handling mechanism has been implemented. It will pop up instead of the old messagebox, when an unexpected error occurs, and besides looking better, it allows you to see more details about the problem, and even better: Submit them to us with a single click on the mouse. Hopefully this will give me a better overview of which problems still exist, allowing me to fix them faster and better :)

To upgrade, simply go to the phpCoder product page and download the application. Install it on top of the previous version, that should cause no problems. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

I just want to let you all know what's currently going on here at TSW. After a long period where phpCoder was the absolute main focus, it's good to finally have it out. I used last week to get out the first maintenance release, and I'm currently writing down things to fix/change for version 1.02 :). This week I've started something that I've been looking forward to for quite a while now: A new version of TSW SiteSync. I already had a list of at least 20 things I wanted to do with it, both small and big things, with several of the suggestions coming from various users of SiteSync. The biggest change will be more responsiveness. People have been complaining that it locks up too much when working, and I'm dedicated to making this a much more smooth experience. As I work on this, I keep finding small things that I wish to change, so my TODO list has already grown quite a bit. Despite that, I hope to have a beta version out within the next couple of months. There will be lots of changes, so I will once again need the help of some talented betatesters. More about that once I have an actual beta version ready :)

While big parts of this new version will be re-written from scratch, I'm still not sure whether it should be a major release, or just SiteSync 1.10 or something like that. I do have one thing decided already though: This will be a free upgrade for existing SiteSync customers, no matter if it was purchased along with WebCoder/phpCoder or as a stand alone purchase.

I will try to post more information about this new version of SiteSync soon - stay tuned :)