| August 2007 - 'Dashboard release' for end of August |
July was vacation time. There was not much development going on for Bookpiles.
There
was no release end of July. The next release is planned for end of
August. This release is called 'Dashboard release'. More dashboards are
added to Bookpiles, to give an overview what's going on with your books
stored in Bookpiles.
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| July 2007 - One year Bookpiles |
The first version of Bookpiles has been released one year
ago, end of June, 2006. This was version 0.8. Development had started some
months prior.
In one year a lot has been achieved. There were six releases and new
functionality has been added: book preview, a dashboard, book folders and book
data from public libraries; a German and a Turkish version.
I thank all for the received support: translations,
suggestions and bug reports. Some ideas for the next year are: E-book support,
web page like browsing and a book desktop.
The next release is planned for end of July with more
dashboards. |
| June 2007 - Bookpiles 1.15 published - Book Preview Release |
Bookpiles 1.1 has a new book detail window, but I forgot the 'detail
html' template for the release. Instead of a local html page with book
data and a thumbnail there was an error message. By the time I found
the error I has already done a book preview and the main dashboard.
Since mid May Bookpiles version 1.15 is available. The 'detail window' bug is fixed and two new features are available.
A book preview on the main window and
a
dashboard which gives an overview about the book in a Bookpiles
database. It shows different book counts, the last 10 books and a chart
with books per month. The chart is active, a double click on a month
shows the books for this month.
For release 1.2 I will add some more dashboards.
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| May 2007 - Overview about books in database |
My book database is growing and I want to have some overview
about what's in the database and what's going on; especially because I use more
than one database.
So I will develop an overview form with book counts for
summary and with e.g. a list of the most recent books. Something like a
(digital) dashboard.
Any suggestions which books counts are required for an
overview or which books should be highlighted? |
| April 2007 - Bookpiles 1.1 and BookGears 0.81 published |
I have published Bookpiles 1.1 and BookGears
0.81 end of March.
Bookpiles 1.1 contains three new functions.
Most important are 'Book folders'
to organize books into folders. This is comparable to files in
directories for Windows Explorer or e-mails in mail folders in
Outlook. Bookpiles keeps book in book folders.
Its possible to create, move, rename and delete book folders. New books show up in folder Incoming Books and can be moved or copied to other folders. Deleted books are moved to the folder Deleted Books.
Book Detail: A new windows with all information about one book in Bookpiles: general data, a thumbnail, Amazon Reviews and Bookcrossing Journals if available.
ISBN Import: Direct import of books with ISBN.
BookGears 0.81 has some small bug fixes. |
| March 2007 - Development of 'Book Detail View' |
|
Currently
information for one book is shown on different forms. The basic data is shown
on a grid. Amazon reviews and Bookcrossing journals are shown on different
forms. This makes is difficult to see all the different data for one book.
A new ‘Book Detail View’ will show all data for one
book on one form: General data, dealer related data, Amazon reviews and
Bookcrossing journals and library data. This is a form which looks like a web
page, and in fact is a local web page generated from the data in the Bookpiles
database.
At least a first ‘Book Detail’ version should be available for the next release
end of March.
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| February 2007 - Development of 'Book Tree' |
Bookpiles needs additional functionality to organize books - a Book Tree.
It will be a 'Book Tree' similar to the Mail Folders in Outlook. New
books are added to the 'Incoming Books' folder and can be moved or
copied to other folders. When a book is deleted it is moved to the
'Deleted Books' folder and only books deleted from this folder
are deleted permanently.
Different to Outlook: The same book can be in more than one folder.
This new feature is planned for the release end of March.
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| January 2007 - BookGears 0.8 and Bookpiles 1.0 released |
BookGears
0.8 and Bookpiles 1.0 has been released on December 22nd, 2007.
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| December 2006 -
Next releases prior to Christmas |
|
The next versions – Bookpiles 1.0 and BookGears
0.8 – will be release prior to
Christmas. Bookpiles can then store Information about books from public
libraries like location, edition, status, signature and due
date.
To store this information the database has to
be changed, Bookpiles does this automatically. All data from the current
database is copied to a new database. The old database remains
unchanged.
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| November 2006 - BookGears 0.71 and Bookpiles 0.91 released |
|
I made a
bug fix release mid October with BookGears version 0.71 and Bookpiles
version 0.91. Sometimes the correct Firebird dll fbclient.dll
wasn’t
found and sometimes the first database for Bookpiles sample.fdb
wasn’t found
either.
The next
releases are planned for December. Bookpiles should be able to store and
display book data from public libraries.
Bookgears
needs some more parameters to process data from library web pages correctly, e.g.
different date formats and different formats for author first name and last
name.
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| October 2006 - BookGears 0.7 and Bookpiles 0.9 released |
BookGears is a program
which extracts book data from web pages of public libraries while you
are browsing them - Internet Explorer reqired. Book data is shown and
can be sent to Bookpiles which then stores it.
Since nearly each library has a different web page layout the data is
extracted using regular expressions. The regular expressions have to be
set up for each library and web page. Currently ? libraries are
supported
Bookpiles has been changed to receive and store book data from BookGears. |
| September 2006 - 'BookGears'
registered |
|
The
library module will be a separate program with name
‚BookGears’.
The project has been registered with SourceForge. BookGears uses
regular expressions
to extract book related strings from public library web pages. The book
data is
aggregated and can be sent to Bookpiles, which will save the data in
its
database.
The
first release of BookGears is planned for end of this month together
with a new release of Bookpiles to load the received library data.
|
| August 2006 - Development of
library module started |
I have corrected a few
small bugs. Severe errors have not been found
for version 0.8 yet. Bookpiles can load book data from Amazon
and
Bookcrossing, but not from public libraries. This is a medium term goal
(let's say end 06). I have already started the development of
a library
module.
The next release should appear end September with some small
corrections and enhancements.
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| July 2006 - First public
version:
Bookpiles 0.8 |
This is the first public
version of Bookpiles.
Bookpiles is a Book Organizer, a program to store information about
your books. The book data can be added manually or more easily loaded
from Amazon or Bookcrossing.
The book data is stored in a database and can be exported to an XML
file if required.
Bookpiles is Open Source and Freeware.
The Bookpiles homepage is www.bookpiles.org
I'm using Bookpiles for the last few months and hope that I have found
and fixed most errors. Nevertheless this is the first public version,
please tell me if you find an error.
This web page gives a (monthly) overview what's going on with the
Bookpiles project, especially the development. |
