Updated Press+ Blocker

Works on Marietta Daily Journal and Star News Online. Other sites will be added later.

Download PressPlusBlocker

  1. Download the zip from here
  2. Open up Google Chrome. If you don’t use it, you should. It’s free!
  3. Click on the settings button (3 lines button on the top right hand corner)
  4. Open the Tools menu, and choose Extensions from that menu
  5. Unzip the zip you downloaded earlier
  6. Drag mdjonline.user.js to the extensions window
  7. Reload any article on mdjonline.com (or another supported site), and it should be popup free!

Aura 1.2.1 released

Aura 1.2.1 fixes an issue with Aura 1.2.0 where having an index with null options (IndexOptions.Null) would cause an exception during the creation of DatabaseManager.

Aura 1.2.0

Aura 1.2.0 was just uploaded to NuGet (and GitHub). It’s a pretty small change from 1.1, but it has one new feature that will make schema migrations easier.

If you are using DatabaseManager, and using RecordManager’s RemoveProperty method, Aura can now invoke a callback passing in the collection of documents that have that property (as a BsonDocument), so you can migrate the values of the property to other properties.

If the property simply isn’t used anymore, you can continue to use the older RemoveProperty method.

Please note: if you migrate a property to another collection, you shouldn’t use record manager to access the other collection, since the record managers aren’t set up yet.

New open source project: Aura

What is Aura? It’s simple: it’s a C# library to make working with MongoDB databases easier. It still uses the official 10gen MongoDB C# driver to work, just makes life less stressful while using it.

Why the name Aura? Aura is the daughter of Ming the Merciless, the ruler of the planet Mongo. Ming is already taken (by a Python project), so why not pick his daughter?

It’s based on Mongol by Ephisys, however, it’s diverged quite a bit since then. However, it should be straight-forward to port your code over. In many cases, its as simple as changing the app setting Mongol.Url to a connection string property, and changing your using statement to using Aura;. That will get you started. There’s also plenty of other useful features that you use that Mongol doesn’t have.

Oh, and its on GitHub. Check it out now! It’s licensed under the Apache Public License v2.0. Feel free to request any changes you want, or go ahead and contribute them. I will most likely accept it if I like it.

Now using nginx!

We have switched over our web servers to use nginx. If your site isn’t working, let us know, and I’ll be sure to get it back up ASAP. It only takes a few minutes.

Removing Press popup from Marietta Daily Journal Online (www.mdjonline.com)

  1. Download the zip from here.
  2. Open up Google Chrome. If you don’t use it, you should. It’s free!
  3. Click on the wrench (or if you have an updated Chrome version, the 3 lines) on the top right hand corner, and goto Settings
  4. Switch to the Extensions tab.
  5. Unzip the zip you downloaded earlier
  6. Drag mdjonline.user.js to the extensions window
  7. Reload any article on mdjonline.com, and it should be popup free!

This doesn’t hack their servers or anything.. they use 2 divs, one that makes it grey, and one with the popup content. This just automates removing those divs.

UPDATE

You can use this script to remove from any website that uses Press+. Just edit the script before installing it to have the URL of the website. If you know a website that uses it, leave it in the comments, and I’ll update the script to include that site. Until Press+ comes up with a better solution to their problem, I’ll keep exploiting and updating this workaround.