Here is an addition to my previous post on phpBB skins.
WebsiteTemplates.com.au claim to be offering phpBB skins but I’ve searched for some on their website and haven’t been able to find them yet. I’m wondering what took everyone so long to start offering templates from phpBB. This is another score for Open Source in my book.
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Yakov Fain wrote an interesting article: A Cup of AJAX? Nay, Just Regular Java Please at SYS-CON DEUTSCHLAND.
I can agree that big Internet guys [Google] can and should invest some serious dough into supporting screen-refresh-on-mouse-move in HTML-based screens. But when it comes to a regular Intranet business application, when the users/browsers/platforms are known and when the cost of the project development matters, I’d stay with a fat client written in Java, or (if you like a fancy GUI) Macromedia’s Flash or Flex.
This article caught my eye and I’m including it simply for your perusal, but I disagree with him. For people who have been developing Java Applets for the past um-teen years, then this argument holds a lot of ground, however for people like myself Ajax is the perfect answer. The application that I am working on is primarily developed in C. The whole web application portion of the program is an add-on and soon needs to be automatically generated by the C application. Ajax opens the perfect door for this type of functionality.
I’m curious to hear what you all think. Java or Ajax?
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Guess who’s doing phpBB templates now. Yep, our friends over at TemplateMonster.com are now doing phpBB 2 templates. These templates include the actual templates files, PSD files with the graphics, fonts and icons.
From Web Hosting News:
“We are always glad to support Open Source projects, especially those of them which are of great popularity thus adding additional value to them??? says Gary Nichols, head of marketing at template Monster. “We already have templates for the Open Source projects like PHP-Nuke and osCommerce. Now we enlarge our product database with skins for phpBB. We believe that not only our customers will benefit from this but the project itself.???
They only have four templates right now, ranging from $45 to $49, but they are planning to expand.
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There has been a lot of buzz about this book, Ajax in Action. I do plan to buy it, or rather get my boss to purchase it for the office :), so I haven’t read it yet. Considering all the reviews it’s been getting, I’ve decided to alert you guys about it. Maybe one of you could purchase it and send me a review.
Happy Reading.
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Ok, by now I’m guess that we all know what Writely. It’s a wonderful little Web (AJAX) based word processor. Does almost everything that Microsoft Word does and even some things it doesn’t (PDF creation).
The guys over at TechCrunch have done an article on it. There have been many blogs entries on Writely, but this one struck me because of the comments on it. Some people are downplaying what the Writely team has produced here. It really urks me when people sit back and do nothing but criticize what others have done. The idea of a word processor hosted on a server is an exceptional one. People are saying that the Writely project is simple and doesn’t take more than “a couple days” to put together. If we look around, we’ll find that the most of the technology that enters the spot light is that which has been redone in a simpler, more effective way.
This is the challenge I have to all the negative critics, if the project is so simple and easy, why didn’t you think of it? Why aren’t you part of the development team?
We need to stop knocking on people with good ideas and simply commend them.
I found this link somewhere, I can’t remember where. But Li Shen has packaged a nice AJAX wrapper called AJAX Client Engine (ACE). I downloaded it and took a look at it and I must say, it is quite functional. I took a look at his source code and found it to be relatively clean. It’s not too bulky making it a nice thin wrapper and he made it very object oriented. Here are a list of the properties. Visit the site to find one more about each of these:
There are some things I just love about this client. The tracing service: When this is enabled, a text area element in a new window (or in the same window if specified) is opened up and a debug is written. Basically, it tells you everything the AJAX client is doing. You can just insert the “trace” function call at various places where you need to debug information like when a request it made, when the AJAX states change, when a call is completed, etc. I must say, it is a very effective tool, one I should have come up with myself.
A blog entry at Ask MetaFilter stirs up an interesting comparison, one which I should have covered a long time ago since it directly affects the way I work.
I’m not trying to stir up a Windows vs. Unix type debate but am interested in your thoughts and experiences, either as an administrator or user.
Personally, I feel that both of these are very powerful forum packages, but let me just mention that vBulletin is and always will be the best and preferred forum software. However, we’re doing the whole free thing, so let’s not even go into the costs of vBulletin. Let’s focus on the two free packages, phpBB and Simple Machines SMF. I have
I have been doing a lot of advanced work on a phpBB forum for over a year now, but I recently stumbled upon SMF. I was setting up a new website in the Joomla CMS for which I needed to have a forum integrated. It was easy enough to integrate the template so that it looks seamless, but I was also looking for a way to integrate the user database of both phpBB and Joomla. At the time their were no components around to do so, but there was a component to integrate SMF with Joomla, therefore I decided to give SMF a try. These are my observations after using both and doing a little bit of research:
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Asaf Sabag, a Hebrew webmaster finds success with Joomla.
Joomla! roadmap is what convinced me to stick with Joomla!, the next version of Joomla!, due to release very soon will have an improved RTL support and more important 100% UTF-8 compatible, and as you know these are great news for us Hebrew, right to left users.
I just love hearing these stories of people who have been struggling with other nukes and CMS’s and finally found Joomla/Mambo.
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