I turn around for like one minute and bam, everyone’s been busy with all sorts of things left right and centre. I feel like I didn’t achieve much this christmas while everyone else was hard at work on various projects here and there.

Don’t believe me, let’s start with Matt, man’s just released bbPress. This is a forum system that runs the Wordpress Support forums. Hmm interesting, only because it seems like it can be integrated into wordpress directly. I do like phpbb, and I love how much progress they guys and gals have made since the last time I used this package. So although I’d like to support your Matty, I’m going to have to wait and play around before the verdict can truely be out on that one.

Erm, we’re now running Wordpress 1.5 Beta? Damn man, I was running 1.3 Alpha not that long ago, how did this all happen? Oh and Kubrick is now the default, comes straight out the box. Is this a good thing? I’d like to think so, as it’s a tad(understatement) bit better in terms of design to original design. I think it’s a good move for the Wordpress community at large. So congrats to Micheal.

Scott’s been busy as well. I think I’m going to go for his gallery solution as well for the Manji Gallery. Glad to see he’s reverted back to his red masthead as well. I’ve been thinking about the wp 1.2 version Manji (since his site is running manji with wp 1.2.2) , and can’t help but feel it would be a waste of time, since we’re so close to WP 1.5 or whatever we’ll end up with. We’re in Beta peeps, it’s close I can feel it. To be honest I’d rather sort out bugs and tweaks for Manji 1.3 than go back; Lava Flavoured Manji and Like Manji: Loaded.

Manji: Loaded what’s that? Heh, wait for it baby, wait for it.

Which reminds me, for all those experiencing a bit of Peek-a-boo rubbish in IE (that is the comment information sometimes shows up and sometimes disappears, again only appears for IE), please modify your Manji code with the following:

add the following line in

p.instructions { margin: 14px 0 0 200px; color: #7b7b7b; font-size: 0.9em; text-align: justify; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #d5d7db; padding-left: 15px; position: relative; }

And a semi-colon after

padding-left: 15px;

somehow it got missed out in the last iteration.

Version 1.02 has already been uploaded.

Oh yeah just wanted to thank all the kind kids on the Manji boards that are helping each other, thanks for caring enough to point things out to me as well, much appreciated.

My buddy Franchesco has released the very first iteration of his B/rad program. When I get a change I’m going to help him tart up his website to make it slightly more fun to look at. Open Source doesn’t have to be ugly.