• Getting Things Done - MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki, mGSD,D-Cubed, TeamTasks, TiddlyPackingList, tbGTD
• Open Notebook Science - Garrett Lisi's Deferential Geometry, (video)
• Novels and creative writing - TiddlyWikiWrite, Gimcrack'd, Singularity!, Liberty Hall Writers Wiki, Bibliotheca Caelestis. Tiddlywikiroman from Hartmut Abendschein, Die, Vampire! Die! from David Van Wert, Rose from Alex Schroeder
• Education - South Australia, maths in Massachusetts, The NoteStorm Christian database
• Factbooks - Web campaigning in the US, Bolivian politics, Prince2 project management, Python Grimoire, Marc Bolan and T-Rex
• Teaching - An Introduction to Chain Indexing, Reasoning Well
• Role Playing Games - Making kickass campaign sites with TiddlyWiki
• Medicine - TiddlyManuals, AMBIT
• Law - TiddLegal, Courtrules
• Activism - Climate Change 2.0, TiddlyWiki for Left Wing Journalists and Researchers
• Homepage/Portfolio - Digimask, American Cryptogram Association, Nykyri.net
• Blog - UdiGrudi, LumpyMilk, Veminra
• Mobile - iTW optimised for the iPhone, iPhone, Android
• Tools - TiddlyFolio (an electronic wallet), TiddlySlidy (presentations using TiddlyWiki), TiddlyPocketBooks (printable pocket books), TiddlyTweets (a tweet archiver), Project Cecily (a zooming user interface for TiddlyWiki)
• As a component of other products:
  • Dido - a tiddlywikified database application
  • KNote - a notetakingprogram (desktopapplikation)
  • Twine - a program for creating interactive stories
  • CkEditor + TW - wysiwyg and TW on local disk (with an updated version from Måns Mårtensson)

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• Improved internationalization (i18n), including better support for non-English characters in page names and complete translation of German interface items.
• Improved (AJAX) interface for comments and support for Akismet spam protection
• Integration with WebODF to support Open Document Format (ODF) in Tiki Docs.
• Multiple enhancements to site search, such as indexing improvements, caching, and the ability to export search results as an RSS feed
• Several new Tiki plugins
• Update of the template engine from Smarty 2 to 3.
• Security fix, first identified by Stefan Schurtz

• Default values now available for the following question types: Date, Short/Long/Huge Text, Multiple ShortText, Multiple Numerical
• array_filter now also available for multiple_numeric and multiple_short_text
• min/max_answers - now also available for all array types, multiple_numeric and multiple_short_text
• min/max_num_value_n - now also available for multiple_numeric
• new question attributes to call validation functions for each sub-question
• Improved validation display - no more pop-ups. If validations rules fail, the validation tip is shown in red (it turns to green if it is OK). For questions with multiple text entry fields, each invalid field will have its background color changed to red to indicate that there is a problem.
• print answers at the end only shows relevant questions
• several fixes to better ensure support for existing surveys

The Google Code in 2011 contest is nearly over and once more it was a great success for Limesurvey. Besides lots of awesome work done by our student porting the upcoming 2.0 version to the "Yii" MVC framework some further work was done which we want to present here:

1. One of LimeSurvey’s Google Code-In 2011 projects that didn't include actual programming involved analyzing the statistical data about visits to the www.limesurvey.org website using Google Analytics. LimeSurvey uses Google Analytics to collect a wealth of information about the countries its users are from, their language preferences, their browser preferences, and what pages they view. Full results from the project can be found here.
The data from Google Analytics showed that in the last two years the number of monthly visits to www.limesurvey.org have nearly doubled. In the month of October, the website was visited by people in 185 different countries. Firefox is the most popular browser among users by a large margin. The most common source of visitors is the Google search engine, and the most visited pages other than the main page include the English instructions, demo, and downloads page.

2. One of our students developed a small survey for us to collect more information about the question type usage (fill it out here). The results were analysed by another studend and can be looked at here.

3. To demonstrate the use of certain feature we have created several demo surveys which you can import using the "import" tab when creating a new survey at the Limesurvey admin backend:
- Download Limesurvey Array filter demo survey
- Download Limesurvey Assessments demo survey
- Download Limesurvey Conditions demo survey
- Download Limesurvey Question attributes demo survey
- Download Limesurvey Quotas demo survey

4. To gather some more user feedback, GCi students have created several surveys. Please take some time to fill them out:
- Limesurvey question type usage
- Limesurvey feature usage
- Limesurvey user interface survey

5. Other tasks included translation updates of the most important manual pages to German, French and Spanish or extending existing English documentation.
Feel free to extend the first version of the Limesurvey glossary we created and check out the new "How to create a good survey" tips (please add your thought there!).

We want to thank all students who have helped us, you did a great job!

The LimeSurvey team wishes you a very happy new year. 2012 is going to be a very exciting year for all the community since we are finalizing the 1.92 version with its lot of outstanding new features based on the powerful Expression Manager engine developed by our core developer TMSWhite (see announcement for the 1.92RC1 release).

At the same time we are actively working on porting LimeSurvey 2.0 to the YII framework. Let me thank all the Google Code-in participants who are working on this project, their commitment and skills are a fantastic help.

So let's start this year by the release of  LimeSurvey 1.92 release candidate 2. In this version, we have fixed all of the known bugs with 1.92 RC1 (especially the installer problem) and we are confident that the 1.92 stable release is soon to come. It is now time for you to give it a try (download here), you won't regret it. As always, should you find bugs, please report them to our bugtracker.

The LimeSurvey team is pleased to announce the availability of release candidate 1 (RC1) for version 1.92 of LimeSurvey. You can download it here. This version is based on the 1.91+ code base, but completely replaces the survey-taking logic with Expression Manager (EM). Although this is a complete re-write of the survey-taking portion of the code, it has been thoroughly tested and we expect a rapid migration from Release Candidate to true release status.

In addition to being fully backwards compatible with 1.91+ (see the one caveat below), EM provides the following new features, several of which have been on the wish list for some time:

• Use complex equations to decide if a question is visible/relevant or not (a successor to conditions, supporting much more complex logic).
• Use Group-level relevance to show/hide entire groups without needing to set conditions on each question
• Use advanced piping, micro-tailoring, and conditional logic to tailor questions that are visible.
• Generate complex reports (like showing users a table of questions and answers) mid-survey.
• Save any computations or generated reports to the database (via the Equation question type).
• Write expressions using the Question Code as an alternative to using {INSERT:SGQA} syntax.
• Write complex expressions using 70+ mathematical/date/string functions, parentheses, and any math/logic operators.
• Use cascading conditional logic, like cascading array_filter / array_filter_exclude.
• Eliminate the need for most custom JavaScript - computations, scoring and tailoring are done by EM.
• Run surveys with complex conditions and piping in All-in-one mode, even if highly dynamic.
• Run large, complex surveys faster, even if they contain many conditions.
• Use the Question/Group Navigation Index even with complex conditions.
• Jump forward in Navigation Index, re-validating all intervening steps and stopping if any are invalid.
• Auto-convert Conditions to Relevance - so you can still use the Conditions editor if you like it.
• Re-order and/or delete any questions or groups, even if they contain complex conditions.
• Use EM syntax-highlighting to quickly validate and debug your work. All variables are color coded to indicate whether they are set on the current, prior, or later pages (or not at all). Tool-tips show the question code, SGQA, question text, and enumerated answer choices. Clicking on the variable opens a new tab that lets you edit that question (also letting you quickly navigate cascading relevance logic).
• Use the new Survey Logic File view to show all of the key content and logic in the survey. This includes all group, question, sub-question, and answer codes, values (if assessment mode), and text; all defaults; all question attributes; and all relevance and validation logic. This file uses the click-able syntax highlighting and shows which questions have errors (e.g. bad syntax, undeclared variables, or re-used question codes).
• Use most EM-related functions and attributes in your own custom JavaScript, you don't need to re-invent EM functionality

One Caveat. LimeSurvey 1.92 is fully backwards-compatible with 1.91+ except for less-than / greater-than comparisons against empty values. One of the LimeSurvey demo surveys uses a set of conditions that translates to this relevance equation: {(age < 16) or (age == 20) or ... or (age == 80)}. In LimeSurvey 1.91+, (age < 16) is FALSE when there is no answer (the value is blank). However, in LimeSurey 1.92, (age < 16) is TRUE when there is no answer, since both PHP and JavaScript treat blank as 0 in mathematical comparisons. Thus, 1.91+ would hide that question when age was unanswered, but 1.92 would show it. We went to great pains to prevent this, but since we needed to have the Expressions generate identical results in PHP and JavaScript, there was no way to make 1.92 treat "" < 16 as FALSE. Fortunately, there is an easy work-around for this. If you want (age < 16) to be FALSE, then use this expression instead: {(!is_empty(age) and age < 16)}. You can use the new Survey Logic File view to quickly identify and fix any such comparisons in your survey.

The best way to get started is to download and install 1.92, and play with the included survey, /docs/demosurveys/limesurvey2_sample_survey_english.lss, which demonstrates the majority of EM's functionality.

Read more about EM here:

• Main EM Documentation: http://docs.limesurvey.org/Expression+Manager
• HowTos: http://docs.limesurvey.org/Expression+Manager+HowTos
• Information for Developers: http://docs.limesurvey.org/Expression+Manager+for+Developers

Please contact us via the Forum or IRC with any questions/comments.If you find any bugs, please report them on the Bug Tracker.

Also note, for those of you watching the development of 2.0, EM will be included in it too. At present, the version of EM in 1.92 is considerably more robust and feature complete than the version in 2.0a. However, as the Yii port progresses over the next several months, these new EM features will be ported to Yii and the 2.x branch.

In the light of recent events we are happy to announce that the LimeSurvey project will participate in Google Code-In 2011 (GCIN). Two prospective GCIN partipicants contacted us and are very eager to help port LimeSurvey to the new PHP framework. After collecting all requirements for our future PHP framework and after these two students helped us to do a Proof-of-Concept base port of the admininstration login/main menu/global settings we decided that we will use Yii as future framework for LimeSurvey. It has a very vibrant community, is really fast and offers every comfort in addition to our requirements.

So far it looks like we will be able to port huge parts of LimeSurvey during the GCIN contest and that means that the LimeSurvey project in general is moving with full speed again. Yay!

Friday is here! Remember, we create these round up posts for you, so be sure to submit anything amazing you’ve done with ExpressionEngine via Twitter or this thread.

And now, for this week’s round up.

Add-ons

• Ben at PutYourLightsOn released Expresso 2.0, a WYSIWYG fieldtype, with a brand new “Silk” theme and the ability to import/export settings.

• Chris Monnat launched dashEE 1.5 on Github. This release introduces lockable layouts and bug fixes. Chris makes special mention to GDmac for his assistance with this release.

• Sassy CP was updated to 1.2.0 which now includes override styles for the CP login page, updates for ExpressionEngine 2.4, and other various tweaks.

• Are you looking for some “hot ExpressionEngine breadcrumb action”? Then Crumbly 1.1.0, by Experience Internet is for you. With this latest release, reverse breadcrumbs have been implemented.

• EE Harbor is running a special! Purchase an “unlimited sites” license of their backup add-on Safe Harbor, and receive a free license of their new translation add-on Transcribe. This deal is valid through February 6th.

Site Launches

• Sean Smith launched a new site for Diamond Head Sprinklers.

• I launched a new version of my personal site late last week.

• Jon Longnecker and Nate Croft released a new kick awesome site for their company FortySeven Media.

Community News

• Matt Weinberg of Vector Media Group informed us that Parm received two stars from the NY Times for being one of New York City’s best new restaurants. The cool part is, their site is running ExpressionEngine!

Must Read

• Erik Reagan of FocusLab was interviewed by the Meta Q where he talks ExpressionEngine and version control.

From EllisLab

• Marcus posted a showcase interview with 420 Creative on their work with Nashelle Jewelry Design.

• Marcus posted another showcase interview with Xeno Web Development on their work with Amcal Mount Dispensary.

• Remember, if you’re going to An Event Apart in Atlanta next week, be sure to play “Where’s Marcus?”. It’s like “Where’s Waldo?”, except much nerdier.

Thanks for the great week everyone! Keep up the awesome, and look forward to #FRUPping your news next week!

The weeks continue to fly by, and you continue to make amazing things with ExpressionEngine. Remember to submit your news to the #FRUP you can do it either one of two ways. First, for convenience, you can simply send a tweet and add the hashtag #FRUP to the tweet. Just make sure that when you do this, that the tweet shows up if the hashtag “#FRUP” is being searched for. Twitter has a habit of not always including every tweet for a given hashtag, and we want to make sure we cover all the news we can. Second, for a guaranteed method of getting included, add your news item to the proper thread for the week, and we’ll be sure to include you.

And now, for this week’s Friday Round Up Post.

Add-ons

• Ben at Put Your Lights On, released a Responsive CP theme that allows your control panel to function better on mobile devices.

• Ben also updated Developer, an add-on dedicated to helping you be more productive in accessing your channels, templates, custom fields, and more, to version 1.4. This update contains every feature request submitted since it won Devot:ee’s accessory of 2011.

• Lodewijk Schutte updated Low Search to version 1.1.0. Check out the changelog for a full list of additions.

• Nicolas Bottari’s Zenbu was updated to 1.5.2 and addresses bugs and support for ExpressionEngine 2.4. He also published developer documentation for Zenbu, with information for developers who wish to add Zenbu compatibility to their third-party custom fieldtypes.

• Stephen Lewis of Experience Internet updated SmartDown, the add-on for formatting your text using Markdown Extra and SmartyPants. Check out the changelog for a full list of additions.

• Laisvunas released AJAX Mailinglist. This plugin allows you to display a mailing list form in ExpressionEngine’s templates and submit it without reloading the page.

• Electric Putty has written their own documentation for third-party add-on developers to make their add-ons compatible with Better Workflow. Check out the documentation, and be on the lookout for this great addition in Better Workflow 1.2.

• John Morton released Pic Puller. Care to pull in your Instagram feed into your ExpressionEngine web site? Then check out Pic Puller. It allows multiple users to pull their photos, their feed, their liked photos, their user info and more.

• Causing Effect’s image manipulation add-on CE Image reached version 2.3. Embed images directly into your content, override settings via config.php, and more.

• Causing Effect also updated CE Cache, which adds the Redis driver amongst other changes.

• MightyBigRobot released Field Editor. This add-on makes it a breeze to setup new custom fields quickly and effectively, with an easy to use interface.

• Rein de Vries released Mailinglist Importer v1.0. This module will extend the functionality of the Mailing List module and allow you to import and replace existing mailing lists.

Site Launches

• Garrant Consulting LLC along with Market Fusion, Philippe Arnoldi Design Graphique, Jennetix, and Responsible Marketing Consulting Services launched a new website for NYCO Minerals, Inc.. Some of the add-ons used include NavEE, Better Pages, Expresso, Matrix, Low Reorder, SEO Lite and Backup Pro.

• Focus Lab, LLC re-designed their site, and is powered by ExpressionEngine 2.4.0.

• 620 Studio launched a new site for Objets, LTD.

• SPI Creative launched the newly redesigned Carthage Chamber of Commerce

• Venveo recently launched a site for Vision Point Systems.

Podcasts

• The EE Podcast talks version control with guests Ian Pitts and Adam Wiggall in Episode 61.

Community News

• Our very own Sean Smith started a Toronto EE Meetup Site/Group.

• Thomas Boelskifte wanted to do something amazing for this community. And, well he’s gone and done just that. He’s started a digital magazine known as “exp:magazine”. Read about his thought process, and check out issue #1.

Must Read

• Tyler Herman of Couchable blogged on ExpressionEngine add-ons that make your client’s lives easier. It’s a great round up of add-ons that make your clients enjoy ExpressionEngine even more.

From EllisLab

• ExpressionEngine 2.4 was released! This release includes bug fixes, new features, and contributions from the EE Reactor team.

• Marcus Neto interviews Erik Reagan of Focus Lab.

• For those attending An Event Apart in Atlanta this February make sure to catch up with Director of Sales and Evangelism Marcus Neto.

• A new showcase on the It Gets Better Project has been posted.

• There is a new CodeIgniter showcase on Pancake App.

Thanks everyone, you all really did a lot this week!

Today I am proud to push submit on a blog post highlighting one of our Reactor Team members. My hope is that we will get a chance to introduce you to more of them over the coming months. This interview is with Erik Reagan of Focus Lab, LLC. I chose Erik to go first as Focus Lab is launching their new website today as well. So after you finish reading this interview make sure to head on over to the new Focus Lab website and see the beautiful changes that Erik and the rest of the Focus Lab team have worked hard on.

For those of you that don’t know Erik you should know that he is a patient family man that is more than willing to help out another dev on a problem. He regularly assists people on twitter and is an active member in the weekly chats. He also teaches a class for other devs to learn how to build add-ons for EE. In general, he is a pretty awesome dude and we are glad he is part of our community. So let’s learn a bit more about Erik…

Can you tell us a little about Erik? If you were to write a bio for your about page what would be important for the reader to know?

That depends. How long is my about page? I do know that I wouldn’t bore people with industry-based info about me.

I would start off by bragging about my family. My wife and daughter are pretty much the coolest gals around. Without their support there would be no Erik on Twitter or in the EE forums. I love them with all of my heart and really enjoy having the opportunity to provide for them.

In high school my plan was to be a rockstar and/or studio engineer and producer for a living. After high school I went to school to be a music educator. Music has a huge impact in my family and I can’t imagine that changing anytime soon. If you haven’t noticed though, I changed my mind on the rockstar status.

A few years ago I realized I wanted to run my own show. Make my own hours. Build a business worth investing in. My ultimate business goal is to have a company that does rock-solid work and enables employees to love their work, but more importantly love and enjoy their life.

Funny, music seems to be a common theme in the web design community. What did you study? Do you play additional instruments?

I’ve noticed that music is a common theme in the design community as well. I joked (partially) a while back that there should be an EE band at the next EECI.

Specifically, I studied Music Education (BME) with a focus on (or “primary instrument” of) Voice. I basically sang for grades. Both of my parents are former music teachers, my grandmother is a piano teacher (she’s pretty much amazing), my father plays classical guitar, and the list goes on. I started taking piano lessons at a pretty young age, but haven’t practiced in over a decade. I can still play to a degree, but I couldn’t just hop on a stage and jam at this point. My main instruments are guitar and voice now-a-days.

Don’t let me mislead you though - I studied music, but didn’t graduate with a degree in music. After studying music the way the professors told me to I decided I didn’t want to do that for a living. I changed my major to Computer Science after completing two semesters for my BME. That being said, I never even took a CS class. I had other things going on (like meeting my wonderful bride) that made me realize I didn’t even want to be in school at that time. So I guess I’m technically a college dropout.

Along those same lines, what are your musical tastes? Do you have some music that is your “go to” for coding marathons?
My taste is pretty eclectic. As I type this I’m listening to Ahmad Jamal Trio (Jazz, for those unaware). The morning emails started off with Needtobreathe as my soundtrack. I do have a playlist called “Now This I Can Work To” but even it isn’t limited to a particular genre. Some artists in the list are Waterdeep, John Mayer, Glad, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jake Shimabukuro, 2Cellos & The Roots.

When it comes to “coding marathons” I have a pretty refined subset of songs I listen to. They have to meet a specific criteria. They need to be pretty upbeat (if not rhythmically, then energetically). They can’t be too musically intriguing (or I’ll just want to stop and listen) and they can’t make me want to pick up an instrument. That might sound strange, but it makes for the most efficient coding sessions for me.

So how did you get your start in the World Wide Web?

When I was in 6th grade my dad was my computer teacher. In his class (and outside) he encouraged me to learn HTML (3.2 at the time). I dabbled in HTML and Javascript here and there for a few years. Somewhere along the way I started using FrontPage 98. I built my first paid website with that. It was pretty horrible, but I didn’t know any different.

Later in high school I went into some server-side languages and Flash. I really liked Flash for a while and was coming up with random projects for it. I spent many hours in the flashkit.com forums (as a member and also a moderator) learning more than I needed to know about Flash and Actionscript. I later saw the light and put my Flash days behind me

I know you are a visual individual as we’ve spoken about your love of photography before. I find it interesting that you moved into code versus design. When you think back was there anything in particular that moved you in that direction?

I left out the design history because frankly, it stunk. I know my way around Photoshop pretty well. I’m not too bad with a pencil and a piece of paper either. What I’m not good at is coming up with something on a blank canvas. I can’t create something new, or from my imagination even. Not anything pretty that is. However, if I can look at and review the lines, shapes and depth of something I’m not too bad a reproducing it.

I like reproducing things but it’s ultimately not fulfilling.

When it comes to code I had a knack for seeing a problem and creating a solution. I didn’t need a diagram or outline to make it happen (not all of the time at least). Because of this I drifted more toward the code rather than the design. You mentioned photography. It’s actually a similar story. My wife takes 90% of the photos in our family because she has an eye for it. I just answer the occasional technical question about ratios, depths and lighting angles.

So, now you find yourself part of a successful design studio. Can you tell me a little about how Focus Lab came about? And what your role there entails?

Focus Lab has existed for about 4 years. My business partner, Bill Kenney, and I met when I saw an ad for a Flash developer needed for a contract job. I met with Bill and our personalities instantly clicked. We were both doing freelance work as a part-time job. We talked over some details and decided to just partner up and combine clients and efforts. By April of 2010 we both had switched over to running our business full-time. At that point we renamed our business to Focus Lab, LLC and defined some clearer goals for the company. The rest, as they say, is history. Except for the future that is. That’s not history. We need to make it first.

My role at Focus Lab (at this point at least) is hard to nail down ultimately. Being a small company we owners wear more hats than one. I suppose the most relevant one is that I’m the lead developer. I make sure that the development that goes out of our doors is solid and sharp. I also lead the EE training and consulting that we do. Ultimately I’d like to hand over the reins on the development and focus more (see what I did there?) on business development.

Is that before or after you quit your day job to be a comedian? In all seriousness though, Focus Lab is doing some amazing work. Can you give us an idea of what your process is for new clients?

Wow, thanks!

For any project we start by asking clients to explain (or we help identify) the problem they are trying to solve. From there we work through possible solutions based on the timeframe and budget. The idea is simply that in the end they have a product that we and they are proud to showcase. There is a variety of unicorns, black magic and Monty Python references in between those steps, but that’s mostly how it goes.

So switching gears a little, how long have you been using EE? And you are now part of the Reactor Team for ExpressionEngine. How has that experience been?

I’ve been using EE for about 3 or 4 years. It started at my then day job when I was looking for a solution that allowed me to manage content for multiple sites across multiple domains but sharing content and members. As you can imagine, EE’s MSM fit the mold quite well.

My first look at EE turned me off instantly. I didn’t get it therefore I didn’t like it. However, after going through Train-ee’s tutorials and watching some helpful screencasts I had the “ah-ha” moment I was needing. I haven’t looked back since.

Being part of Reactor is really fun. I’m having conversations I may have not otherwise had. Most of my participation thus far has been centered around ideas and planning so the first EE release with Reactor contributions won’t have anything from me. I have some goodies in the works though. I’m really excited about the experiment as a whole and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.

What do you like to do to recharge in your off time? Any hobbies or activities that you enjoy?

Time with my beautiful wife and daughter is certainly at the top of that list. They inspire, motivate and encourage me in so many ways. I love the time I have with them and am very grateful for having them in my life.

In terms of hobbies, I mainly have three right now. I love music (as mentioned earlier) so picking up the guitar is always an instant sense of peace for me. I also love billiards. I wish I had more time to play but I still get to a table a few times a month. Lastly, as of late I’ve picked up running. It’s way more enjoyable than I would have imagined. It gives me some time to not think about much of anything.

Erik, I want to thank you for your time. Before we go is there anything else you want to share?

Sure! If anyone out there ever wants to chat with me about anything I have an open inbox. From development and business to family and faith. I love having a good conversation and learning with others.

Also, I’ll insert the obligatory shameless plug. Keep an eye on Focus Lab this year. We have a lot of exciting things on the horizon!

ExpressionEngine 2.4.0 is now available for download.  This release provides a broad array of changes, including stability and security improvements, a faster control panel, the addition of popular feature requests and new libraries and hooks for third party developers.

This release offers improved stability and performance with over 80 bug fixes, including an obscure but theoretically possible MySQL injection exploit.  The control panel is noticeably faster in most environments, with much snappier rendering of filterable tables.  And an expanded approach to ‘Remember me’ functionality that’s optimized for multiple sites and/or devices results in a nicer frontend user experience.  In addition to improvements to general functionality, both users and developers will find lots of goodies as we continue to develop existing features and set the groundwork for upcoming additions. 

File management continues to improve in this release, with a number of nice additions.  The browser has been beefed up to allow sorting and filtering by keywords, greatly improving the ease with which you can find a particular file.  The browser has also been added to the category editor, for use when populating the category image field.  File access via the browser has also been seen increased security checks, limiting access through the browser to the CP.

File ‘credit’ and ‘location’ metadata can now be added through the file modal, and file fields can display all data associated with a given file through frontend tags.  It’s now easy to show any of your image options with native tags.  The ability to watermark an image without requiring resizing has also been added.

Improvements designed to make updating and/or moving ExpressionEngine sites were also a focus of this release.  File upload paths can now be overridden via a hidden configuration variable, making updates after a move or syncing a developer site and a production site easier.  A third_party_path configuration variable was also added, allowing you to keep your third party add-ons folder outside of the system folder.

A number of smaller feature requests were also addressed in this release, including the addition of an ‘active’ status indicator to the Channel Categories tag; the ability of the Channel Categories and Category Archive tags to accept multiple channels in the channel parameter; the addition of a url_title parameter to the Channel Next and Previous tags; the expansion of improved control over pagination output to search pagination; the ability to choose a specific channel from the main control panel dropdown menu when editing and a lot more.  Check the Changelog for a full list of what’s new!

Developers will also find a number of significant additions in this release.  Two new constants, URL_THEMES_THIRD and PATH_THEMES_THIRD, have been added with the goal of allowing users to fully customize the location of third party folders. These two constants point to the URL and the path of the themes/third_party/ directory. We’d like you to start using these right away and have your add-ons using them by our next major release because we’ll be introducing two new config variables that allow users to override these settings.  In conjunction with the new third_party_path config variable, users will then be able to keep third_party folders completely out of the system/ and themes/ directory, making upgrading easier.

It’s also not too soon to start paying attention to our new Developer Log.  This feature records deprecated functions that are called during normal operation of a site.  This allows ExpressionEngine to send a warning that functions or behaviors currently in use on a site will be removed at some point in the future, thus giving third party developers time to future proof their code.

A new File field library should also be of particular interest to third party developers.  The library makes it easy for developers to use the native browser for their own needs.  For a look at the library in action, just take a peek at how it was used to enable file browsing for the Category Image field in the control panel. 

EE’s Pagination library has also seen significant improvement, reducing the amount of code needed to implement pagination parsing and providing a method for handling pagination_links as a tag pair.  All developers are encouraged to make use of the library for parsing of pagination tags.  Hooks also received their share of love in this release, with new hooks available when deleting members, modifying template data, defining template types, and pulling in rows for the content edit page.

Lastly, I would like to note that our PHP and MySQL version requirements will change with the 2.6.0 ExpressionEngine release, giving you at least 3 months to prepare. Our PHP version requirement will be 5.2.4 and our MySQL requirement will be 5.0.3. Making the call now allows our developers to plan new features with optimized code while still giving our users plenty of time to make sure their hosting environment is compatible with ExpressionEngine’s future needs.

We hope you all enjoy the new release!

Not only do you make amazing things with ExpressionEngine, but you make amazing things about ExpressionEngine. More on that in a second.

Remember, the “Friday Round Up Post” is here to help promote the amazing work you do. Be sure to submit your news by means of the #FRUP hashtag on Twitter, or by using this thread.

Songs

• ExpressionEngine is a powerful CMS. And apparently, it makes some of our users extremely happy. So happy, they created a song showcasing their love for it.

Add-ons

• Nicolas Bottari updated entry list manager, Zenbu, to version 1.5.1, with per member settings, formatting options for expired or upcoming entry dates, and bug fixes.

• Isaac Raway of MetaSushi, LLC released Illuminated. Illuminated is a high quality editing surface that supports full syntax highlighting for HTML and JavaScript code right in your publish page. For a full list of features, check out the add-on on Devote:ee.

• Ben of PutYourLightsOn launched a new add-on called Snaptcha. Snaptcha is an invisible but secure CAPTCHA that works with comment, SafeCracker, and Freeform forms.

Site Launches

• James Buckley launched his new site Bright Rocket Design.

• James also launched a new site for the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.

• Perry Garvin Studio launched a site for Film Forum, Inc.

• Nathan Doyle launched Big Butt Guitars.

• Paul Bridgestock of 3Easy launched Bombo Clothing which has an e-commerce store powered by BrilliantRetail.

• Encaffeinated, Inc. just updated the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth site that they originally built in 2010 to ExpressionEngine 2! Chad mentions the use of EE Reactor member Brian Litzinger’s script for undoing Gypsy as a huge help in the project.

Community News

• Michael Boyink of Train-ee is looking for your help. As part of putting together some new EE training materials, he’s seeking two things. First he’s looking for a design quote for a restaurant site, which you can read more about here. Second, he’s looking for a restaurant client, so the course is implemented in a real world scenario. Read more on these requirements here.

Education

• Train-ee has two new classes in San Antonio, TX in March. Mike is offering a “Beginner to Intermediate” course, as well as an “Add-on Development” course.

Must Read

• Stephen Lewis of Experience Internet posted a blog article on How to Implement a Custom Extension Hook.

From EllisLab

• EllisLab has been around for ten, yes 10, yes X, years! Our fearless leader Leslie Camacho has posted an overview of what’s to come in EllisLab’s near future.

Thank you all for another great week. Look forward to seeing more of your work next #FRUP!

Today Website Baker Org e.V. has released the new official homepage of WebsiteBaker content management system. From now on you can find all information about the cms refreshed and new structured on www.websitebaker.org.

Today Website Baker Org e.V. has released the new version of WebsiteBaker content management system. You can find the download of WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 now on the official source www.websitebaker2.org.

Ever thought “I can do things as well as the devs”? Ever wanted to be dev for a day? Now’s your chance to shape Textpattern 5 your way.

Never one to shy away from pointing out Textpattern’s greatness, when the opportunity arose to talk shop, some Bloke was all over it.

Among the sun-drenched skyscrapers of Olde London Town, some virtual strangers with only Textpattern in common met in a pub. With just beer, handheld devices and a network close by, what could they possibly talk about?

What happens when you wedge four TXP geeks in a room? Surprisingly little in tangible output, but some great codeworthy exploration and daft pictures. Find out how the North Bristol TXP meet went down.

People that sail in the murky waters of the Internet know it has its share of predators looking to train their harpoons on unsuspecting software. Please welcome Textpattern CMS 4.4.1 into dock, which adds some much-needed bolts to the hull entrance.

• One Low XSS Vulnerability fixed in the Archive - This is tagged as low because it requires moderator permissions. This vulnerability was discovered and reported by frostschutz.
• One Medium XSS vulnerabilities fixed in Attachments - This vulnerability was reported by frostschutz.
  Please note that this patch will remove the ability to open some types of attachments directly in your browser (e.g. QuickTime Movies), and will instead ask you to download them.
• … Several other bug fixes
  

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Wikipedia wrote:
SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

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• Introduce support for phpBB 3.0.10

• [Fix] Correctly handle empty module data when resetting the boards modules. (Bug #62958)
• [Fix] The "ERK" now correctly handles strict/deprecated errors. (Bug #62976)
• [Fix] Added missing language entry. (Bug #62856)
• [Fix] Reparse bbcode changes topic poster to guest (Bug #62889, Patch by Dicky)
• [Fix] STK password variable incorrectly unset when not logged in. (Bug #62946)
• [Fix] Correct version handling in the database cleaner. (Bug #62961)

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• Full Package:
  Full phpBB 3 source code and english language files.
• Automatic Update Package:
  Update package for the automatic updater, contains changes from previous release to this release.
• Changed Files Only:
  Complete files, but only those that were changed since previous releases of phpBB 3. This archive contains changed files for every previous release.
• Patch Files:
  This file contains diffs against the previous phpBB 3 release, which can be applied with the patch utility.

• For new installations you should use the Full Package
• For updates of boards without modifications you can use the Automatic Update Package (guided update) or the Changed Files Only package (manual update).
• For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you can use the Patch Files Package.
• International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction with the Code Changes to better support users with problematic conflicts during their update process or to help them update code sections.
• If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files Package to update all of your client installations.

• phpBB Downloads
• phpBB Projects page @ ohloh
• phpBB 3 Documentation
• phpBB 3 support forum
• phpBB 3 bug tracker
• phpBB on GitHub
• phpBB Code Wiki

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• Added plugin hook “user.verifyregister” to allow spam control at registration time.
• Replaced CAPTCHA image library with a newer one backported from UNB2. It is configured to use language-specific dictionary files. Edit unb_lib/captcha_words_*.txt where * is the language code. If you want to add more languages, you need to update the code in forum.php (watch for those file names). Currently, de and en are available. If you create a long enough file for another language, please let me know. Warning: Translation file “common”, string “vericode~” has been updated in de and en (may lead to misunderstanding if not updated). Template file “register” has been updated (only cosmetic layout change).

• Fix in session/cookie handling for php.ini "request_order=GP"
• Forum notifications are forum-recursive
• Increased size of background images to improve IE7/8 performance a bit.

• PHP 5.3 compatibility

• Log Viewer: Line break between filter check boxes and their label text prohibited

• A complete features list is now available.

I am wondering what PHP framework developers used to make PunBB?

Does anyone know of any extension to view the forum in a mobile phone?

Hola a todos los usuarios de PunBB
He estado pensando en si va haber o no una nueva versión de PunBB, la 1.5 para ser más exactos
Yo tengo algunas sugerencias, que puede que no sean las mayores sugerencias del mundo, pero sin duda alguna ayudarán mucho a PunBB
Estás son:
-Posibilidad de añadir iconos gestuales (smileys) desde el Panel de Administración, sin tener que editar ningún archivo directamente, lo que ayudaría a la gente más nueva
-Posibilidad de añadir nuevos BBCodes desde el Panel de Admin, pues esto si puede ser lioso, pongamos el ejemplo de que un usuario nuevo escoge PunBB y quiere añadir un BBCode personalizado, teniendo que editar archivos le sería muy complicado sin tener gran experiencia en la materia.

A lo que quiero llegar es a la posibilidad de darle más "dinámica" al panel de Administración, editar algunas funciones, como ya mencioné los smileys y el código BB, creo que eso marcaría la diferencia en PunBB
Si alguien no ha entendido alguna cosa por favor que pregunte e intentaré explicarla, pero que conste que uso Traductor (Google xD)
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Hello to all users PunBB
I've been thinking about whether or not there is a new version of PunBB, 1.5 to be exact
I have some suggestions, which may not be the most tips in the world, but certainly very helpful in PunBB
You are:
-Ability to add emoticons (smileys) from the admin panel, without having to edit any files directly, which would help the newer people
-Ability to add new BBCodes from the Admin Panel, as this can be confusing if, say the example of a new single user PunBB BBCode Want to add a personal, having to edit files would be very difficult without extensive experience in matter.

To what I want to get there is the possibility of giving more "dynamic" Administration panel, edit some functions, as already mentioned the BB code and smileys, I think that make a difference in PunBB
If someone does not understand something please ask and try to explain, but the record I use translator (Google xD)

::Info
A PunBB extension that fix forum announcement to the right side and allows to expand it on mouse over.

I was tired by scrolling down my forum, cause I had quite tall announcement div, so I've decided to solve this somehow. This is how this extension was born.

It additionally supports Urban and Hydrogen themes.

::Screens

:: Demo
http://kushithemes.t15.org/

:: Download

Hi everybody, I'm new in Punbb world.
I try to intergrate the forum in my site, but I have some problems.

I search how to get the avatar of the user who is connected. (To show it in the logbox).
Where I can find it ?

PS : I just want the path to the avatar, not a html code like .

Thanks for answers.
Thaledric

The Xotof Team have been busy working on their Gallery 3 Client, getting it to as many users as possible.

Xotof already works on your favorite Android phones and tables, and they have just received approval to run on the Amazon Kindle Fire.

If you're a Gallery 3 user with an Android device or a Kindle Fire, head over the Android Market or Amazon Appstore and give Xotof a try.

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Adam Minchinton and Magne Zachrisen just released a Beta version of their upcoming Gallery 3 Client for Android: Xotof.

Like Gallery 3, they focused on usability and simplicity and the app looks pretty fun and easy to use with most of the UI focusing on your photos. Check out their website for more details or post bugs on their forum.

Here's a quick summary of the major features:

• Supports multiple gallery installations
• Smart caching, and loading of images
• Zoom/Pan images
• Inbuilt slide show
• Uploading of single or multiple images
• Robust connection handling
• Honeycomb support

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The 2011 Gallery Developer Conference ended last weekend in Atlanta, and we had a blast while getting a lot done. Your donations paid for room and board while we talked about all things Gallery and hacked a bit on Gallery 3. Some notes were written on the walls, a few photos were taken, and the end results are some things you're going to like:

• Much progress was made on Gallery 3.0.2 (Codenamed 'Coldlanta' after the unusually pleasant Atlanta weather). From it's roadmap there is currently just one ticket to go which is a permission model change that should make a lot of people happy!
• We pushed all other tickets back to a "3.2" release and selectively pulled things into 3.1. Gallery 3.1 is focusing on things that users and themers have asked for, and it's roadmap is looking pretty reasonable. Expect momentum here to pick up as soon as 3.0.2 is out.
• Lots of wiki 'cruft' on the wiki on this domain was removed or moved over to codex.gallery2.org, and a lot of maintenance was done on existing content to make it easier to find some things people often are looking for.

Whether it's via IRC, in the forums, or in the Gallery 3 issue tracker, please keep your feedback coming! Every change we make to Gallery 3 is a direct response to something you need.

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Gallery 3.0.2 is available, woot! This is a bug and stability fix release, but it adds a few new usability features. You should upgrade to Gallery 3.0.2 when you can. Upgrading is quick and easy! Read on to learn what's new and improved, or just download it now!

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It's that time for a Gallery Conference again, and this year we're trying something new. You're invited! If you can write code, documentation, design UIs, or provide support, you and your laptop are welcome to join us in Atlanta April 22nd and 23nd to get some work done.

• April 22nd - Focused "workshops" on all things Gallery. We'll get a schedule posted, but expect hour or two long hacking sessions on everything from the remote API to theming to documentation. Bring your questions about projects you're working on, or if you have things you'd like to pitch to the core team. Afterwards will of course be tasty food and drinks.
• April 23nd - Open Hacking. Network with other Gallery developers in person to pitch in and get work done on your Gallery related projects. Sometime in the afternoon we'll head out to play tourist in Atlanta.

Sound like fun? Here's what you need to do:

• Have played with Gallery 3 in some capacity and be ready to ask specific questions or contribute. This is not an end-user support event or a place to ask other people to do work for you.
• Get yourself and a laptop with wifi to the event in Atlanta, GA on those dates. (We'll be somewhere reachable by public transit from the Airport.)
• E-mail gallery@menalto.com your name, what you'd like to get out of the event, and some sort of detail so we know you're serious.

Depending on the level of response we get, we may need to limit capacity or alter the schedule. As the event gets closer, we'll post more details.

While this event is completely free, you're responsible for getting to and around Atlanta and paying for meals. There's a chance we will be able to provide a lunch, and a good chance Bharat will grab the tab at a bar afterwards, but it all depends on how big the crowd is.

Any questions? Ask them here!

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