jbWebWare.com

I've been working on a two in one project in my free time. I've been working on a Social Networking web site for gamers. I also plan on releasing the custom CMS (Content Management System) I've been working on that will be the backend/infrastructure of the site.

I thought I'd elaborate a little more on my plans for the Social Networking Web Site for Gamers that I've been working on.

At first I'm going to focus on FPS Clans and MMORPG Guilds. A Clan/Guild leader will be able to sign up for their own "Den" (my terminology for web space). The Clan/Guild Leader will be able to choose a pre-built theme or create their own custom theme. They will be able to install plug-ins that will be individual to their own "Den", and they will have control over where menus/blocks are displayed.

Graphic Design is my weak spot. Give me a text editor and a server and I'll work wonders, but put Photoshop or Inkscape in front of me and I'll give you deformed stick figures lol.

I need to pick a Graphic Designers brain while working on a Theming System for the Open Source CMS I'm working on. I've thought of adopting either the Blueprint or 960 CSS framework, and then adding my own custom CSS ID's and Classes that Themers will need to use to create their own Custom Themes.

The progress with "jbWebWare.com v2.0" is coming along nicely, if a little slower than we had anticipated. Due to the longer transition time, we will be re-opening the Forums and Bug Tracker.

I've started a thread to let you know what we already have planned for "jbWebWare.com v2.0". Please stop by and let us know what you'd like to see added.

e107 vs Drupal

All's Quiet On The Eastern Front, What's Up With That?

I'm sure you've noticed some changes around here lately, the two main changes being the disappearance of the forums, and a lack of blog posts.

Don't worry, all is not lost, and I've still been working hard in the depths of the jbWorld. In fact, so much so that it's taken my attention away from my open source dev and support.

I've been working on a few hush hush projects. I regret to inform you that they are closed source, proprietary solutions, and I will not be able to contribute them back to the community.

Do Pirates and Ninjas use Emacs or Vi?

Here's an article I stumbled upon while in one of my many "need to stretch the brain and browse aimlessly" moods during a recent coding session of mine. This particular article takes more of a scientific approach, rather than a biased view, that looks into the pyche of Emacs and Vi users.

I've been wanting to get my hands dirty with desktop software, so I've decided to play around with Python.

It's only been about two weeks, and I've already got the basic syntax down pat. Now I've been messing around with application/systems programming, and have been reading up on wxPython and PyGame. Talk about ease of use. Python is my new baby.

A fellow e107 user got locked out of their site and asked me what was the best way to recover a password in e107. I thought I'd share my response:

There are two ways you can reset your password.

Using your e107 site to reset the password:
Go to the "http://www.yoursite.com/fpw.php" page and follow the instructions.

Manually changing your password in the database. Here are the instructions to do so using "phpMyAdmin":

FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS BACKUP YOUR DATABASE!!!

I've been a bit quiet around here, and development on jbClan v3.03_beta has slowed down, so I thought that I'd give everyone an update on the goings on around jbLand.

I've had two major life changes these past 2.5 months which I can attribute to a slowdown in development:

1: The birth of my beautiful little girl, Kayla Burns

2: New employment

I was just wracking my head trying to figure this one out, so I figured I'd share my experience with everyone.

Browser Tested On: Firefox 3.0.5 (Haven't tested to see if this happens in IE)

The Situation

I've got a page that a user needs to input information. This page has three fields that are required, two that are not. I fill out the form, yet leave out a required field (so I can test my validation code).