This is not the place to find it. Software wise, nothing new will emerge into this blog until “Blak” is released. The current theme is boring one to tears, but other more important projects are in the way of creating “Blak”. WordPress 2.1 made its debut Monday night, and it’s safe to say all of the plug-ins one has contributed to or written are fully compatible with 2.1, while for the most part they maintain backwards compatibility with 1.5. This compatibility will be dropped by the 2.0 release of each plug-in. In layman’s terms that means by May 2007 if you want to use a plug-in that one maintains, you need to upgrade your WP installation to at least 2.0.7.
People do the darnedest things, especially when it comes to signing up for something. Since when were you allowed to try to signup five times for an account somewhere and have them all accepted? Some of the people trying to enter the queue for a Weblogs.us blog are doing this, typically only trying the sign-up twice, but one jerk from Germany did it five times. Guess what happened to all of his submissions, I deleted them. Partially because this individual signed up for five blogs, but also he did so within 3 minutes, and most of the requested subdomains contained spaces and inappropriate language. This guy is a spammer, and will never get a Weblogs.us account. Sometimes I get the feeling that few of the people signing up for blogs are actually reading the TOS, and are blindly agreeing to it. Most people won’t be affected by the TOS, but that spammer from Germany would, as spamming is strictly prohibited by the TOS.
-John Havlik
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Tonight, JD put up the new Weblogs.us website. This, as previous posts suggest, is just phase one in the transformation. Enjoy it.
-John Havlik
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Finally, (almost) a week later than anticipated RPC Heir (build 114) and RPC Rub (build 86) are good-to-go. RPC Heir’s (testable) bugs have been eliminated, which took a bit of work fixing up lastRSS to test and eliminate. However, RPC Rub behaved as expected easing that bug testing. Note that there is still a ‘bug’ involved with RPC Rub’s JavaScript. This however is a “GUI” bug that won’t be noticed by most users. The long-awaited zip files should be available shortly on the WP RPC Utilities page. Have fun and enjoy.
What this means for the progress of the Weblogs.us website is that we could launch Monday. lCards won’t make the launch, and it’s better that way as more data is needed to implement it correctly.
-John Havlik
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Beginning next week (hopefully), moo.wp will be archived and a new release will present itself. As of this new release moo.wp will now be known and WP-JStoolkit. This coincides with the restructuring of the moo.fx family into mootools. New features other than containing the modular mootools, will include a wp-jstoolkit.js which is editable from the admin panel. What mootools brings to the table now is a completely modular, and lightweight javascript toolkit. In previous versions of moo.fx and family, there was a dependency on prototype or prototype.lite, now mootools is completely independent of prototype, but can accept prototype style commands to retain backward compatibility. Previously when moo.wp was released, mootools was still having some compatibility issues, now it seems to be fully functional, and therefore warrants inclusion.
-John Havlik
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Finally RPC-heir should work as expected; it only took two weeks of frustration, and the creation of a now unneeded subdomain, plus a little extra code in the default index.php file. In this though, security is higher, as only people on weblogs.us servers can ping the RPC server, otherwise they will receive xHTML.
-John Havlik
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