News update late April 2021
xbFilm Package Release Candidate 1 v0.9.2 available for download.
xbBooks Package Release Candidate 1 v0.9.2 available for download.
Both of these now require com_xbPeople (included in the package file) to be installed
xbGigs, a new member of the xbCulture family optimised for details of live gigs - music and spoken word performances, first beta due during May.
Various modules for xbCulture components now in development. Details here
xbCulture
The xbCulture is a family of closely related Joomla Component Extensions which are designed to keep a record or catalogue of artistic/creative/cultural works,
The primary intended users are individuals, like myself, who wish to keep a record of books, films, plays, gigs, exhibitions and similar events that they have experienced.
There are initially three core components and a common supporting component in the family, although there are ideas for extending it into further areas;
- xbBooks - as the name implies is for a catalogue of books of all sorts.
- xbFilms - not surprisingly is for movies, although it can also handle series, tv shows and box-sets
- xbGigs - is for live music performance, and spoken word and comedy - IN DEVELOPMENT
- xbPeople - a support component bundled in the packages for the above, provides tools for managing a common database of people and characters as well common styles, language and code across the components.
A set Modules to display short information about the datasets is in development. These will include:
- Search titles/names of all items
- Recently added
- Top/bottom rated
- Random choice
- Popular People
xbFilms - film catalogue
14th March 2021
xbFilms is an xbCulture family component for cataloguing films you have seen and reviews of them. Version 0.5.3 introduces a couple of new admin features and a host of tidying up.
It comes as a package with a supporting component, xbPeople, for administration of people and characters which is common to all xbCulture components.
The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of films they have seen with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was.
Edit Hide/Highlight Package
23rd July 2019
xbEdHideLight is a spin-off from xbFootnoteTag which provides the facility to highlight or hide text in the editor (TinyMCE or JCE) WYSIWYG view whilst having no effect on the front end article display.
I find Highlighting is useful for marking sections of text that need revision or updating later, and I use Hiding to conceal long shortcodes that clutter up the edit view once they are working.
xbBooks - book catalogue
29th January 2021
xbBooks is a component for cataloguing books you have read and reviews of them. Version 0.6.8 is the current release candidate, it should still really not be used on production sites (although I am ;-) ). The functionality for v1.0 stable Release is all in place, albeit with plenty of rough edges and room for improvements.
It started out as I needed something to replace a flat-file database I had been using to save details of books I read and short reviews/comments. Previous to that I had been using a simple spreadsheet and originally an paper file.
Footnote Tag Package
15th July 2019
xbFootnoteTag was originally created to assist with creating and maintaining references, or other recurring snippets of information in articles. As well as generating conventional footnotes (linked by either a number or a citation title) since we are in a hypertext environment it makes sense to provide an option to have the reference appear as a popover either instead of or as well as a footnote (footnotes work better if the article gets printed).
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