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Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:07

... and it can cost a lot more than money...mostly time! when you opt for the wrong one... fortunately I've haven't encountered too many disasters One thing I have learnt though, is that even if you have the near perfect... if not completely perfect... component / mambot / module you should always keep your ear to the ground with your eyes and mind wide open because like most things in life, Joomla and technology is constantly evolving

I've used a couple of Comment components / mambots on bee.geek.nz before, first off the bat as AkoComment, next was ComboMax, after that was AkoComment Tweaked... and I'm sure there are a few others in between also ... but that aside... it's not the first time I've spoken about the comment systems that's used here either, I rambled on about my migration to AkoComment Tweaked during the article Some Things in Life... but since then I've found something even better...

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Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:39

...in fact I'd much rather spoon out my eyeballs... but these days it all seems to be part and par of running a CMS or forum... basically anything you run on your own server. I use to enjoy the upgrades as more often than not they would come with new twiddly bits to explore but these days the twiddly bits come a little thinner on the ground and mostly the upgrade is forced due to security issues and they are packaged with bug fixes... it all becomes pretty ho hum, the stress is still there but instead of twiddle excitement with a view to do some serious plonking the end result is either pure relief (that for a change) it went ok or a flat out panic attack trying to work out what went wrong and at which point... peace and harmony is required at all times... it's a dang shame I lack both

I have to say that these days it's a tad less stressful due to our switch from dialup to broadband so everything uploads to the server a lot faster, vital for stress levels because as I tap away doing this, out the corner of my eye I'm watching WS FTP Pro chugging its way through the latest vBulletin release v3.6.0 (from v3.5.4...I missed, on purpose the upgrade to 3.5.5) which just tops 9 MB, once that is complete I need to upgrade our BBPixel jvbPlugin upgrade version for vBulletin 3.6 and Joomla v1.0.10. BBPixel is a godsend... it's made my life so much easier... bless their wee cotton socks for providing the service they do and the bridge that ties together the Joomla and vBulletin login, members list etc