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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.

But on the bright side of things, there are going to be some major changes around here, changes that I'm very excited about (code name: "jbWebWare.com v2.0").

A New Player Enters The Fold

I've decided to adopt Drupal as my CMS (Content Management System) of choice. There are many reason for the adoption, so many that it calls for an entire post in and of it's self.

To sum it up quickly: I started to develop my own custom CMS because there were many features and theories/methodologies that I wanted to implement that I wasn't getting in my current solution. But after doing a little research, I realized that Drupal had already incorporated many of those features. After reading up on the "Drupal Way Of Doing Things", I became really excited about the possibilities.

Once I've finished porting "jbWebWare.com v2.0" to Drupal, I'll be talking about the reasons for the move, and I even plan on documenting the process of installing and setting up my new Drupal installation.

I am still undecided as to what I plan on doing regarding jbClan for e107. As of right now, jbClan v3.02 is still very stable, and there are only minor changes needed for the e107 v0.8 release, so jbClan for e107 will still be around for some time to come. I'm just not sure if I will be adding any new features to the e107 release of jbClan.

Either way, I will be focusing on porting jbClan to Drupal before adding any new functionality to the e107 release of jbClan.

Where Do We Go From Here

I will be quiet for just a little bit longer. When I release the next rendition of jbWebWare.com, I will not be moving over any of the current content, so I feel that adding more content before the unveiling of "jbWebWare.com v2.0" would be counter productive.

I will be focusing on "jbWebWare.com v2.0" exclusively until I release it upon the world, but you can still receive support for jbClan through email: jburns131@jbwebware.com

Until then, gl, hf and gg's!!!