The Daily Bits

This weekend as some of you may know we upgraded the forums to phpBB3. The new version is a significant improvement over the old clunky forum system. The old system was way out of date and needed to be fixed for a long time. Some features that I am happy about are integrated warning logs, integrated subforums, easy to add bbcode tags, and much more. The mod CP will take some time to get used to but overall it is an improvement. The forums are a lot faster than the old version and the conversion went fairly smoothly. There are a few tiny things that will get smoothed out in the coming days but overall great. Mike also did a speedy job of converting our old theme to work with the new software.

Along with the forum upgrade came PHP5. PHP5 is actually more exciting for me. It will enable us the ability in the future to develop more object oriented php code if we want. It also adds lots of new functions and built in capabilities. So overall the weekend was well spent… along with studying for my remaining 3 finals.

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Last night I sent Jeff a copy of my theme. He was nice enough to tweak the sidebar code so it’d work as intended. Now the only thing to manage is the link sizes seeing as things are floated around. So whenever I add a new link to the “blogroll” i’ll have to make sure it doesn’t screw up the floats. But ya… thanks Jeff.

Also if all else fails here’s a theme I was looking at. It’s sorta white… but there are no good black themes out there. If I was to move to this one I’d remove the header image and calendar.

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I’ll start off with noting that I have finished most of the customizations I have set out to make on this theme. I’m really starting to like it now. Let me explain a bit about it. On the left we have my Digg stories that I have dugg and my del.iciou.us links. In the right sidebar we have the typical wordpress stuff, categories, search, links, and archives. In the top navigation bar we have links to all of the other RSBandB major projects. We also have links to the oh so important RSS feeds. I have put two feed links in. One for the general feed and one for the Runescape Pictures as I know many people come here just for that. Anyways onto Flashy Friday.

Finally a game that I can say is fun and not annoying! This game is one in which you use your keyboard arrows to control a tiny car. The car has realistic momentum so it just doesn’t stop when you lift up off the gas. It’s quite fun… You can play it here.

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