We proudly announce AMS 2.50 Beta 2 yesterday, and now we are waiting feedback from our BETA tester. We also announce that AMS 2.50 Beta 2 is the last BETA for AMS 2.50 generation and in 2 weeks time, we will move to AMS 3.0 SEO development.

We have a few valid bugs reported but it is very minor and we estimate closure in 1-2 days when we start put our hand on the code again. For the mean time, we will focus on non-code stuff that we think is important.

Documentation

AMS seriously lack of documentation. When we inherit this module from it-hq, documentation not exist at all. No SVN, no user guide, no programming guide.. nothing at all. We need to explore ourself and try to understand the code by opening php files one by one. Its takes time and we are never be a XOOPS module developer before and a lot of stuff about XOOPS classes & objects we didn’t know.

Now, we in better position. With experience updating AMS modules and 2 other modules (XM-Membership, XOOPS Mass Email), we kind of understand how XOOPS works and our TPT (throughput time) increased significantly. However, we never write any documentation. We didn’t have time to write programming or coding guide.

But how about user guide ? It is critical an it is a shame when someone download and use our module, but never know how to utilize or some people even not aware some important and “cool” features in AMS. So unfortunate, we didn’t have documentation, and no XOOPSTER/user want to provide the documentation to us. So now is the time to be serious, and we should lead the effort to create “user guide”. If you are aware, we just create a documentation, and give access to everyone to edit it. If you like AMS, please help us to complete it. We, ourself will spend sometime in these 2 weeks time to write asmuch as we can, but we need YOUR help to make it comple and comprehensive.
AMS 3.0 SEO implementation study

Some short news about AMS 3.0 SEO… we evaluate some implementation and we do short code as proof of concept but we didn’t like it. Some implementation have great potential and flexible, but required massive SQL query, and some implementation very fast and didn’t need mysql query at all but it is ugly and not flexible at all. Which one we choose ? we don’t have answer yet.