This will describe how I converted my norwegian webmaster forum which ran the SimpleMachines forum software to ExpressionEngine with the forum module installed. The SMF_Import module I’ve created can be used to import both users and forum messages to EE, or just the users if you only want to import these.

After I had problems with RegisterFly a while back, I started looking into their ToC. That is, what I had agreed to when using their service. Without reading it first, of course. I have always wondered what kind of people read the toc of websites before using them ;) Here are a couple of highlights, my comments are in bold – everything else is a verbatim copy from RegisterFly’s T&C:

Argh! Lately I’ve had some problems with my local development server. It just gave me a blank html when accessing localhost .. So, I reinstalled xampp (Apache+PHP+MySQL combo) – found out that didn’t fix anything. Took backup of all my htdocs and mysql data, uninstalled xampp completely (sort of knowing that xampp was messed up). Tried installing WAMP5 with same result. netstat -a .. something isn’t right here. Turns out the WAMP server gave me a sensible error message: “Port 80 is busy (might be Skype?

Cairngorm is a framework for creating RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) using Flex. The problem is that it’s pretty fresh, and there is not too much documentation and examples out there yet. So, here’s a list of the stuff I found while searching :) The Cairngorm wiki @ Adobe is a nice starting point AboutNico linked me to this great pdf written by Digimmersion – it’s called “Flex Application Design for Cairngorm” and it’s just incredible how difficult this gem is to find using your favorite search engine … thanks Nico!

At fotb06 I found out that I love AS3 since it practically looks and feel just like Java. As long as Flex doesn’t start to look and feel just like Swing I’ll be happy .. anyhow, just now I stumbled across this quote on (http://www.bash.org/?top2): Sigurd: a sprite is anything not static SRElysian: a sprite is a variable object SRElysian: be it 2d or 3d TorMuck: a sprite is a fucking soda TorMuck: you god damn geekass bastards It was so good I had to share it.