Well, it looks like they're getting close to releasing Phoenix Beta, which has a lot of bug fixes in it and some new bells and whistles. The major down side is that they've "refactored" the plugins, which appears to be a fancy way of saying "renamed all the functions and hooks". This means that all of my plugins will need to be rewritten to work with the beta version, ahhh gotta love cvs. Whilst it sounds like a pain in the arse, it shouldn't actually take much work to convert them over, it'll just take time ..... damn, I almost wish I'd only written one plugin now :p

On the brighter side, I've almost finished converting my comment moderaton hack over to the beta version and I've started on expanding it into a full system rather than the "works enough for me to use" system that's in place at the moment. If I can get the code robust enough and it does what's wanted then I'll see about getting it added to the core.

Another bright point is, with the code going into beta, apart from the fact that it means it's getting closer to a full release version, it should also mean that the code is far more stable and unlikely to be "refactored" again. So this should be the last time I need to recode my plugins ...... I'm an optomist :|

In other news today, [stk] has joined forces with a certain unamed british programmer to start up "a value-added website presence",

[quote]Initially, our goal will be to provide b2evo-specific add-on features, tutorials and plug-ins. Many of these features will be free, in the spirit of Open Source software, but because we both hope to continue full-time development, we'll be accepting donations, offering site subscriptions, and taking on website consulting work. And we're planning on extending support, articles and features beyond b2evolution, covering such diverse topics as CSS, XHTML, site maintenance, design and a number of other open source applications.[/quote]

Sounds like it's going to be fun.

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