RG Revived

We've had some problems with RG's frontpage, but this is now fixed. The cause is the Development Grounds updater, which is set to automatically verify if there's new content on Dev Grounds every 3 days. The problem is that Dev Grounds is situated on a blog which is not completely controlled by me(the only part of Grounds which is not completely controlled by me). Owners of Dev Grounds changed it's layout a little bit, which caused my tools to stop working properly. But this section was completely useless anyway, hence new stuff, if released, is going to be showcased on frontpage anyway. Alas, we now have 2 non working tools on frontpage. First is the "Latest Forum Activity", which was shut down long time ago due to original forum crash, and now this. Maybe I'll fix the Forum Grounds tool, because that would matter for something, but I can't say so for the Dev Grounds. Dev Grounds is an old and useless part of Grounds family. It's gonna stay intact only for historical reasons.

Expect news regarding Recruiting Parser soon.
PS. I am willing to present you the code which ran Dev Grounds frontpage tool, for educational purposes and whatnot
You can read it here.

8 years of existence...

... plus a few days. RG originated on 8th July but I forgot about it.
Yeah, Recruiting Grounds exists for 8 years. There are History pages if you wanna know more about it. I've been reading some old news posts today, and it's a good laugh. Grammar, punctuation, horrible (3 years of RG original news post). Readable, but still horrible. Anyways, happy b-day Recruiting Grounds!
We've always been about making web designers and programmers life easier, but I must notice things have escalated in a good way since initial release of Recruiting Parser. Who knows when I'll present it's final version. Who knows if I'll ever finish PM Grounds. Let's see what the future brings.

Recruiting Parser praised big time

While the final version of Recruiting Parser is still under development, I have some news. A friend of mine, who's business is programming (he goes to Egypt to do programming there, for example) praised Recruiting Parser. As he is in desktop - oriented programming business, he didn't comment on usability (as he never used it), but he commented its code, which he says is great written.
On the other side of the street, today I noticed (nobody even noticed me) Recruiting Grounds has received a Reviewer's Choice of 2010 on DownloadNew (link). I was shocked, of course in a good way. So that's about usability. I have good feeling for Recruiting Parser - it got praised for the code structure, and the actual usability.

I also noticed some people don't read Recruiting Parser's quick manual and make their life harder - this person wanted to save the parsed code in a variable. Recruiting Parser does that by default. So, people, if you have problems, read the manual, or ask for help on our forums, you'll come with the best answer from me.
I also received a nice amount of bug reports and improvements on the Forums, thanks everyone!

Of age!

Hello everyone! I know there hasn't been any recent development, but I'm simply too busy. Sorry 'bout that.

Anyway, it is my becoming of-age birthday today! I'm 18 now, and, uh, nothing actually changed. But hey at least I'm of age, so who cares.

Yay


Bob Marley - Red Wine

Red, red wine
Stay close to me
Don't let me be alone
It's tearin' apart
My blue, blue heart!!

Recruting Parser 1.0-dev r2 released

A new version of Recruiting Parser has been released. It contains minor code changes but not so small usage changes. Both have been suggested on Forum Grounds by same user. Read thread for details, but long story short, is that Recruiting Parser has been showing problems with Spanish charsets, and therefore with some other non-standard charsets. By the way, charsets I am talking about here are letters. So I introduced Unicode support, which will fix this problems.
Second update introduces [youtube] tag support. Please note: this function is currently deprecated, but I'll finish it soon.

And that's it
Enjoy Recruting Parser 1.0-dev Release 2!

Recruiting Parser pre-final skipped

This afternoon I announced a probability of releasing second version of Recruiting Parser. Over this days I was testing it, and I came to conclusion Recruiting Parser is free of bugs. Over 2k of code, without bugs. Well, I have been doing it for a year, so it may be a reason.
In other words, Recruiting Parser pre-final #1 will be skipped. Actually, it won't be skipped, but it simply won't be what it was supposed to be. Recruiting Parser pre-final #1 will be first Recruiting Parser with eXtras. I explained that on Recruiting Parser release page too. So that's the project I'll be working on. I have a lot of school business underway too, so I won't be able to give it as much as time as I'd like. But it'll eventually work out. You won't have to wait for me to release this pre-final version to see how this eXtras work. I'll be uploading nightly builds, so you can test it right away. But notice, do not never use this nightly builds for serious things. But I'll point that out on the Recruiting Parser nightly builds page (it doesn't exist yet, since there have never been such releases). Also, this eXtras are not the only thing that I will upgrade Recruiting Parser with. I cannot talk of any dates when first unstable/nightly build will be released, and of course I cannot talk of final version release date, but I'll keep you informed about anything.