Hi to all,

I have tweaked  the forum a little bit in order to prevent a renewed flooding of spam (last time, we had about 10 posts of spam for every useful post - despite having tried numerous spam prevention techniques, none of which proved successful). This is (probably) my last try at it, if it works - which I hope - it should last, if it doesn't I won't try again and will close the forum, or find alternatives like paid subscription. If there's someone among you that has knowledge of PHPBB and spam prevention, I'd like to hear from him/her, I'm also actively looking for a volunteer moderator that can disable posts or accounts if I'm not around, which will be the case quite often in the next few weeks due to work commitments.

In order to tidy things up, I had to manually delete some accounts that sounded suspicious to me. I apologize if among them there were legit users - please re-subscribe to the forum in case I inadvertedly deleted or disabled your account, or contact me via the contact form.

On happier notes, I released 0.8.13b for Joomla 1.5 and definitely started working towards 1.6/1.7 compatibility. Please don't expect anything soon, but it's just to let you know that it will be available sometimes in the not-so-far-away future... :)

Many thanks for your understanding and best regards

Fabrizio

Hi all, it seems like there's not been a loto of activity out here lately, but this is a false impression. I've been working hard on SimpleMemberships, the second project of mine, that shall see its first productive use kick off this month, and on a custom project that shall reach completion by the end of august. Work (I mean day full-time job) has picked up a little bit as well after months of relative calm, so things are definitely looking better now.

Many people ask me about Joomla 1.6 (or shall I say 1.7?) compatibility. As of now, there's no plan to start working on such versions. I know I might upset (and disappoint) a lot of people with this statement, but fact is that neither of the many, many site I run (either privately or at work) are J1.6 and they run fine so I don't need to upgrade them to the latest Joomla. As soon as I migrate those sites you can be sure that SimpleCalendar and SimpleMemberships will be available on J1.6+ too. It definitely will happen, I can't - at this time - tell you when exactly. I thank you for your understanding.

I also started working on SimpleCurling, it's a simple (as it says) tournament management system for curling events, my favourite sport. After having used what is considered the best (?) curling software available (and having lost & re-entered data many times in the process) , I selected to write a small piece of software on my own. It is currently being finished and will be available in late fall, early winter at the earliest.

I will be away from August 4 to 15 so I took down the forum (having spam issues -> please pm me if you can help in keeping the forum spam-free, it's a time-consuming task that I'm tired to do), will reopen as soon as I'm back. Have a nice holiday season!