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Time for some good news and some not so good news! Let’s start with the good stuff first shall we

PHPBBMOTION – phpBB3 / PHPmotion V3 Bridge

The new version of the phpBB / PHPmotion bridge “phpbbmotion” is now ready and will be available within the next couple of days on line. It is slightly different to the v2 version as it does not integrate so many of the features together and focuses more on just integrating registration/logging in actions.

Some more good news is that it will be cheap, I am planning on releasing it cheaper then the previous version! It will be available for 15€ ($21 USD) and 5€ installation (excluding phpBB/PHPmotion script installation). Installation is simplified and no changes are required to phpBB core files (there are some optional changes to make to the theme). This means every phpBB3 mod will work!

The bad news

The addon/theme announced here is no longer being created. This is mainly because of lack of time but also because I am working on another project which could interest you (possibly even more then this addon) but more on that when it’s nearer completion.

Now that version 3 of phpmotion is released, I thought I’d let you in on something I started planning during the BETA.
It can’t really be called an addon or a theme, it is so much more we’ll just call it the “pack” until I can come up with a cool name for it.

What will this pack do? Pretty much everything my previous addons have done and more!

Click here to read the rest of this interesting bit of news now!

Just a quick post to say I’m now getting old 22 years old today and so far it’s not going well my laptop has just died on me! Looks like I’ll be looking for a new one soon…

I’ve now been hosted with JaguarPC for just over a year, what can I say? I should have moved here years ago! I currently have 2 VPS with them and I can’t say I remember ever having the slightest problem with them. No noticeable downtime (uptime monitored with mon.itor.us), no hardware issues, nothing.

When I did use their support tickets (because I had some questions about Plesk as it was the first time I use it) they replied quick! As in from what I saw in my support tickets each reply was within 10-30 minutes.

Also because I checked out their forum first I found the special deals they have regularly. I think when I signed up I managed to get double the RAM +5GB disk space and free plesk control panel, how cool is that?

So if you’re looking for a new host be it VPS, Dedicated or reseller hosting then be sure to check these guys out! They also have a nice twist on the “unlimited” shared plan so many hosts rip you off on by not actually offering unlimited anything (which would be impossible anyway). If you need lots of disk space then they offer endless disk space! How does that work? Every time you get to 80% of your allowed disk space just click a button to extend it!

Anyway it’s time I got back to work, just thought I’d share my experience over the past year. Hopefully you’ll be able to receive the great service I’ve had since being with them.

I’ve finally got round to fixing a few bugs which had been discovered in the seo pack, whilst nothing major upgrading is straightforward and therefore worth doing

You can download the update by logging into your client area.

List of updates:

• Now compatible with PHPmotion V2.1 (version for V2 still available)
• Bug fix: Video previewing redirected to video page, problem solved.
• Bug fix: Undefined variable in addon.php
• Bug fix: Problem with user name checking, also now checks against existing files so that there’s no problem with people registering as “videos” which would result in their profile page being yoursite.com/videos and causing a problem (unless you change the video path setting to something other the “videos”).
• Update in functions.php: new function to determine path requested.
• Removed template files which don’t require editing to make it easier to see what needs changing on custom templates.

Upgrading:

• Replace addon.php & functions.php in the seo-pack folder.

Don’t already have this addon?

What are you waiting for? This seo pack provides your site with better links & custom meta tags! Grab yourself a copy today!

I’ve been happily using Linux now for over a year and thought I’d post about my experiences so far and after the what happened to me (more on that in a bit) I’ll probably be creating a new category to store useful bits as I find them (for myself & hopefully it will  be helpful to others). Continue reading ‘Life in Linux’