If you’re running 1.4 beta and have made customizations, you can probably live without this update.
However, newcomers will skip a few bugs, happy them!

One more thing: I’ve added a “powered by” link in the footer, with a link to jobberbase.com. You’re not required to keep it, but I’ll sure appreciate it if you do!

Have fun!

I’m also subscribed to John Resig’s blog, so when he asked readers how to best manage all the JavaScript jobs that are channelled through him, I, of course, suggested jobberBase.

Two days later, to my astonishment, I found out that he did:
JavaScript Ninja Jobs — an extension to John’s upcomming booksite, Secret of the JavaScript Ninja.

Thank you!

How amazing is that!?

Thank you, Jacques and keep us updated on the process!

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Guys, you’re doing an awesome work with your jobberBase sites and I was amazed to see so much activity going on in the forum!
I love to see some of you — who have mastered the application — helping others start out. It’s great!!

So I just want to say THANK YOU all, for your support and involvement.

I plan to catch up with the active issues on the forum, but I’m going through some tough weeks (it’s all good) and my time is extremely limited. I’m always available via e-mail (filipcte [at] gmail.com), though :).

Soon, we’ll release the final 1.4 version, with bug fixes and, hopefully, some small additions :). In the meanwhile, you can get it from the repository.

P.S. Any amount in PayPal donation is much appreciated, thank you!

As promised, we present you a few new cool items:

1. You can translate jobberBase UI through a single .ini file

The file is _includes/translations.ini and it should contain all the text strings in the site. You would only need to edit a few images (’post job’ button and logo) to have a complete translation.

2. Static pages can now be created/edited/deleted from admin

We’ve moved most of the static pages in the database, to make it easier for you to edit their content. You can also create other pages and link to them. The system is pretty straightforward!

3. Change categories from admin

No need to get your hands dirty in phpmyadmin or other db administration tool. Categories can be created/edited/deleted from admin, now. You can also reorder them, through drag and drop!

4. Change admin password

Another missing feature in 1.3 was the ability to change your admin password from the admin panel. Now you can.

5. Bug fixes

Most had to do with the search engine. Thanks to all who posted fixes on the community forum!

Well, that’s it. Go ahead and download jobberBase 1.4 beta 1!

Your feedback is always very precious, so please don’t hesitate :). The final version 1.4 will be launched after we make sure there aren’t any bad bugs out there.

P.S. You may also check out our SVN repository, for “nightly builds”:
svn checkout http://jobberbase.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ jobberbase-read-only

His team is very familiar with jobberBase and has already made a number of clients happy :).

Therefore, version 1.4 (or just call it 2.0?) will be a huge step ahead for us!

I know an upgrading guide would be nice, especially if you’ve installed version 1.1 and want some features from 1.3.

What you could do is checkout the code from Google Code SVN repository: http://jobberbase.googlecode.com/svn/

You can do it like this:
svn checkout http://jobberbase.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ jobberbase-read-only

Then, you can compare what you have with the latest stuff…

I’m also working on setting up a wiki, where it’d be great to have some tutorials! If you wish to contribute to the project, one way you could is by writing short tutorials on various issues. The forums is a great place to find answers, but it’s getting a lot of new content which is hard to organize.

Aaaaanyway… keep it real :).

This is what the changelog says:

• Added an admin panel (thanks to Lavinia Creivean)
• Added a survey page: the ideal job (as seen on www.jobber.ro/jobul-ideal/)
• Improved pagination support (thanks to Mihai Mocanu)
• Fixed some bugs related to search
• Translated the sitemap page (forgot to do it, before :p)

The admin panel

Assuming you’ve installed jobberBase on localhost/jobberbase/, the admin defaults to localhost/jobberbase/admin/.
Default username: admin. Default password: admin. You may change these in the ‘admin’ database table.
The panel allows you to activate, deactivate and delete ads. It’s pretty straightforward and nothing fancy… but it does the job well!

“The ideal job” survey

localhost/ideal-job/ shows a survey like this. We did this on jobber.ro to find out what people think is an ideal job, then use the data to show companies what people are interested in.
If you don’t want this feature, just take out the link from _templates/header.tpl and the case ‘ideal-job’ section from index.php. Also job_params, job_requests and job_requests_params database table (they hold the data).

If you want to use this survey, though, but can’t figure out how to change stuff, please let me know and I’ll try to guide you. It’s a simple system I developed, but you may actually get better results using a professional survey-builder :).

That’s (almost) all, folks!

Of course, bug fixes are always there in any new release and this one has them, as well. Mostly small issues in the back-end.

Hope I didn’t miss anything.
Have fun!