Upgraded To Wordpress 2.6

We have now upgraded to wordpress 2.6.

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jQuery UI 1.5

The jQuery team are approaching the UI 1.5 release, the library of demos is steadily building up and i personally cannot wait until its fully released . One of the “weaker” points of other Javascript User Interfaces and previous releases were the themes for the window borders etc. This has been solved in jQuery UI 1.5 with the theme roller. Its a well polished theme roller with features like the jQuery colour picker in it, you set the necessary classes and you can see a live demo of what it will look like on dialogs, sliders and tabs below, very nice.

Heres a video by the Filament group, who made the theme roller.

ThemeRoller for jQuery UI Screencast v4 from filamentgroup on Vimeo.

Feed Fixed

The RSS feed has been fixed and the theme is just about done! Its a very simple theme (as CSS/graphics have never been my strong point) but it will look good. More jQuery, PHP and Linux content coming soon!

Whats Happening?

Im in the process of making/designing a custom wordpress theme for the site. Alot of things went wrong in the upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.1 so once the new theme is finished, im doing a fresh install of wordpress so it (hopefully) irons out the RSS and posting bugs. Im backing up the database (and ill restore it) so all of the posts will still be where they were.

More posts are coming, ive been working on a couple of video tutorials lately so i can post them with the launch of the new site/theme.

Just letting everyone know.

~Panzer

Invision Power Board 3.0 Announced

Invision Power Services have announced the development of Invision Power Board 3.0. They promise a new

Features Include

• Template engine
• Search engine friendly URLS (I presume /forumname/topicname rather than ?fid=493&tid=98 )
• New BB Code system
• More Administrator controls (Picky options i’d image - turning signatures off in specific forums etc..)
• Reputation System (Finally catching up with vBulletin )
• Enhanced permission and moderator systems.

They say they are adding more integration tools, so you can integrate it with your existing website, or adleast provide some easier integration tools; it will also have tighter integration with other IPS products such as the blog, gallery.

Its interesting to see that they are dropping support for Oracle. They boast about having so many big business clients, i’d presume they all run Oracle, and yet are dropping support for it. Mayby they are turning back into a community board rather than a business board?

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on that.