A while back, after MyBB officially removed the old R/S/J section from the site I posted a thread that generated a lot of attention for theme designers. Take a look. Since this thread, I have had an idea in the back of my mind - however was never too sure on how to take the approach at starting something like this. Earlier this month, I decided to give it a try and started working on a project I have kept secret from the majority of people I speak too & see around the forums I visit.

Some playing around with Photoshop

I am a lazy person, therefore will avoid things I don't necessarily have to do, such as registering! Especially with MyBB.

Oh, anyway what's up guys? My name is Harry, some of you will probably know me from IcyBoards, and a few other places, I enjoy doing Web & Graphic Design in my free time and lurking forums to keep up in the know. I have used MyBB for a long time and have come to grasp the in's and out's of the amazingly simple but confusing software.

Anyway, to explain what I said above my introduction, I absolutely hate registering for things, It means 5 minutes out of my life that I could have spent elsewhere doing something productive, like annoying my twitter followers. <- Those poor people. It's purely because I'm lazy, I can't bare to think of what I would miss whilst doing such a task. No I am only joking, it's not that hard, however I always think using social service logins is a good approach to usability and expanding a member base. @Darth Apple, take a look into that maybe? No? Ok.

Anyway I'm out, peace.

There have no doubt been many good musicians that don't know how to read music, and yet many music teachers and instructors today focus on it first and foremost. Personally, I have learned several musical instruments, but never had the patience to learn to read the music. (Yes, I can read chord charts. The rest is stuff I do by ear. )

I think that part of the reason behind that is because the best way to teach someone is to give them the resources to learn on their own, and the easiest way to do that is to teach people how to read music. However, many great musicians skip the process of learning how to read music and jump straight into learning the instrument. 

What is your opinion? Do you know how to read music? Do you find it to be an essential skill for any musician to have? 

Over the past couple of months, I've been working on and off on a little plugin to count and to log visits to user profiles. It's installed here, so if you want to check it out, feel free.

Anyway, the plugin has a number of features, including: 

• An optional profile visits counter 
  
• A popup modal box that displays the latest visitors on profiles
  
• Visitor caching to prevent a single user from rapidly reloading the page to bump their profile visits counter. 
  
• Usergroup based permissions
  
• Basic moderator actions (allowing you to reset the counter or to delete visits)
  
• MyBB 1.8 compatible. 
  

I'm a big fan of the alternate history genre. I frequent alternatehistory.com. I also like strategy games, so combine those with writing, and the result is a good basis for an alternate history timeline. This next passage I'm going to show to you is a draft of what could be my first TL. It's based off of the AAR Paradox Hohenzollern by Wiz, which can be read on LParchive here. If you read that, you'll understand what's going on here. 

The Zuhriman Wars Part 1: Revolution (1760)
The 18[sup]th[/sup] century had been a troubling time for Iberia and the Tahirid Dynasty. Following the overthrow of the former Hammadid Dynasty, Iberia had lost most of its American and Jadakali colonies to revolutionaries. What had remained of the Iberian Empire were the very northeastern and southern parts of Jadakal, and Iberia's colonies in Africa. While the Tahirids had made somewhat of a comeback going further into the century, their iron-fisted and brutish rule, combined with the stigma of being a foreign-born dynasty, had led to the Iberian Revolution of 1760. Supported by Mazula, thousands of Iberians who were deported to Mazula by the Tahirids led a revolution, that with the support of Iberia's lower classes, successfully overthrew the Tahirid Government in Iberia. These revolutionaries were led by Ibn Zuhriman, a genius in the art of war who was notably stout. This revolution would open the door to nearly six centuries of conflict between revolution vs. reaction, republic vs. monarchy, and old order vs. new order. 


Of course, this is only a draft. The final product will probably be a lot more polished, wordy, and will include fancy portraits and maps too. But for a draft, I think this will suffice.

So I haven't really followed SMF much recently, but I did hear today that SMF 2.1 is on its way. I'm going to go on a whim and say SMF 2.1 can almost be compared to phpBB 3.1 in a lot of ways. I won't necessarily compare it with MyBB 1.8 because, all things considered, MyBB 1.8 isn't really that much of an earth shattering update. Regardless, the official beta 1 release announcement can be found here. 

I set up a little test install out of curiosity. I'm pretty impressed by its features, but the theme looks messier than it has ever looked. Not sure I'm really a fan of it. I wasn't a fan of 1.8's theme either, but at least 1.8 had some consistency in its theme and was easy to "fix". This could use some improvement. However, the (mostly) responsive theme, alerts systems, etc., as well as the simplicity of setting up various features on the forum are, in general, pretty strong advantages. 

What are your thoughts on SMF 2.1? Feel free to register on that test site if you want a good example site to take a look at.

This is the thread where I'll throw in any projects I'm working that I feel like bragging about on MS right now. I'll probably put out some content starting tomorrow or so. Be excited

Was out in the bay a while back...  

View from atop Twin Peaks:




Foggy view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Vista Point:

Ask me questions.

Hi all! Some of you may have seen me around ...or not. Either way I am theezy and its nice to be here!

I've been looking around for another forum or two to hang out at, so, I've landed here!