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I am Around

Tefra — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:11:38 GMT

I am around guys don't worry, i got a few emails recently asking me how's goin since i haven't been active enought lately,

I had some works going on my house the past few weeks, in the beginning i only wanted to have my workplace painted but we ended up doing the whole house. It was decided to buy some new furnitures to eliminate my bank account balance and to put this year's holidays under consideration but the house looks great btw.

Thankfully i got some big paid coding jobs and i decided to revamp my personal portofolio t3-design.com, more code for slave Chris. These things got me really busy but it was fun to code while my pc was on the floor, or the dinning table, or the balcony. Most of these extra things have kept me a little inactive but i am still here.

I have finished most these and i only need to update my portofolio this weekend. Easter Holidays are coming up so you will see me around more.

Site Changelog #11

Tefra — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:42:49 GMT

vBSed 1.1.1 Changelog Codename Beetle
- Fixed bug, remove votes when a page or term is deleted.
- Fixed bug, in pages, show first tab when tab number is empty.
- Fixed bug, in sfs, create new category wasn't working. Broken Query
- Fixed bug, in lists, don't fetch recent and popular pages when viewing a cat with no subcategories.
- Fixed bug, in view votes, round up the votes percent.
- Fixed bug, in vbsed_addrel function to truly add the ref="lightbox" only to image links.
- Added Feature, fetch page text from external file, to boost performance.
- Adopted vB thumbnail creation procedure for sfs *
- Updated sfs procedure for rebuilding thumbnails. (queue control)
- Updated sfs procedure for mass import from ftp.
- Updated rename of the file in sfs, mimic windows.

* The creation of the thumbnails until v1.1.0 was the only untouched thing left from the seditio code. To find clear traces of seditio now you have to start a treasure hunting.

Site Changelog #10

Tefra — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:43:21 GMT

vBSed 1.1.0 Changelog Codename Zipit
- Added post icon in the newsbit in home page.
- Added page number on list title e.g. Ati Catalyst - Page 3
- Added vote details page for pages and terms. e.g. page -term
- Added lightbox 2.0 support for pages, sfs, gpudb, terms.
- Added stats page for the startup processes db.
- Added sort options to the terminology.
- Added one more item in pages stats, total files total file size.
- Added index on the process_status in startup table. (Performance improvement)
- Fixed some term entries who had unknown publish date.
- General code cleanup, tidy up some old mess.
- Removed completely the page alias.

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Snow snow snow in athens

Tefra — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:01:53 GMT

I know people who live in countries like Canada, Germany, USA etc might start laughing with my reaction but anyway. Having snow in the town center where i live is an every 10year event, this might be the reason why they hospitals are full of people with fractures. :D

For the past two days it was snowing and it was snowing a lot. For the first time in my life i saw a rotary plow working under my house, i live a few kilometers from the town center. Most of the shops and companies are half working cause most of us didn't even bother to try to go to work. I attach an photo to show you the status, of course now it has sun and most of it is gone but still it was fun.

Still schools, colleges in all the country will be closed for 2 days. I am sure we overreact but snow in a town with 97% sunny days every year is not something you get to see very often. :p

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Site Changelog #9

Tefra — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:51:04 GMT

vBSed 1.0.9 Changelog CodeName: Snowball
- Added Social Bookmarks icons for pages and terms.
- Added ability to track hits on link entries.
- Added a bunch of table indexes, a noticeable performance boost in vbsed areas.
- Split of the global phrases into main and global to stop having dublicate entries and save some memory usage.
- Replaced top posters with top rated in term statistics.
- Replaced with session free links in cached areas.
- Fixed bug with uncached template vbsed_list_queuebit in list.php
- Fixed bug in vbsed conflicting with the vb notification system.
- Misc changes/additions in the templates and the phrases.

Site Changelog #8

Tefra — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:33:28 GMT

vBSed 1.0.8 Changelog
- Adopted the thread prefixes system for the home page news.
- Template changes to support vbulletin 3.7.0

vB 3.7.0 Beta 5
- Too many to list here check this

Site Changelog #7

Tefra — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:57:47 GMT

vBSed 1.0.7 Changelog
- Fixed bug with unwanted redirect during link entry addition/update.
- Fixed bug in gpudb reviews replace '&' with '&' in links.
- Updated function terms_build_relation (it should be more accurate and faster now, credits)
- Added file icon in pages with assigned files, based on the file extension.
- Added sort options in sfs file list.
- Changed pages files size into bytes integer for proper display.
- Major Code changes and cleanup in all the php files.
- Major changes in categories and terms, startupdb tables.
- Unified rate function for use in future sections.
- Misc templates, phrases changes, additions.

Notes
- A few hardcoded html code is left in the core files.
- All versions prior 1.0.7 are guilty for excessive intval usage.
- This release was supposed to me a maintenance release, but hell no, this might actually be one of the most important so far.

Site Changelog #6

Tefra — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:05:35 GMT

vBSed 1.0.6 Changelog
- Fixed Bug in SFS Categories, calculate the last update from all the subcategories.
- Fixed Logical mistake, the cat last update is supposed to be based on the last upload.
- Improved Performance in index, grab the parsed text for the news, 0.02-0.05 seconds is not much but it's faster.
- Added "Latest User Blogs" block in index, cached.
- Added new global function vbsed_fetch_avatar_html, for various uses in future.
- Improved the admincp categories management system.

Archbishop Christodoulos, aged 69, dies of cancer

Tefra — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:52:13 GMT

In Greece the people with the name Christodoulos can be counted with the fingers of only one hand. One of them is me. 10 Years ago Archbishop Christodoulos caused me a lot of trouble :p cause from the day of his election no one ever believed me when i was introducing myself.

This was really bad especially when i wanted to meet with girls. I guess it was a nice trick to break the ice with some laughs about my name...

Archbishop Christodoulos was for sure one of the most popular persons in Greece and for sure the most active Archbishop in the last lets say 100 years. He was a brilliant man who managed to have a lot of supporters and a lot of enemies with his beliefs.

How many times have you met a religious leader to go to schools and tell smart jokes with a lot of meaning, how many times you have met a religious leader to talk with teenagers about masturbation, to make a radio show, to welcome in church people with earrings, piercings ?

He wanted to make a 180o turn on how church was appearing to young people. In one of his speech some teenager shouted Christodoulos "i like you" and he replied "i like you too".

One of the biggest protests in Greece History was leaded by him, to resist to the removal of the religion from the identification cards, with three million Greek citizens signed and asked for a referendum. Witch never happened. As an example i would say that with 3 million votes here in Greece you can easily get at least the second place in national elections.

He was the one who managed to recover the relationship between the catholic and orthodox churches. Moreover some of the biggest scandals went public during his service, but he was never the one behind one. Most of them went public from his enemies to damage his reputation.

He was a great man, with great beliefs about how the church can move on and throw away the past ideas and this can be proved by the people who attended his funeral. He fought the cancer for many months and decided to die as a simple human is his house.

The future will be really poor without him, most of the next candidates for Archbishop were people who tried to fight him and his beliefs.

Goodbye Christodoule we liked you too.

Site Changelog #5

Tefra — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:20:07 GMT

vBSed 1.0.5 Changelog
- Fixed Bug, remove page files when you delete a page. *
- Fixed Bug, find page by download filename. *
- Fixed Bug, categories jump menu fetch parent entries. *
- Fixed Template Bug, missing tag in index poll.
- Fixed Bug in sfs parent select, block user from setting a child cat as parent cat.
- Fixed Bug in page stats, wrong sort of the top rated pages .
- Deprecated field page alias, complete removal is scheduled for the version 1.10.
- Improved lists performance, replaced total category entries query.
- Improved sfs performance, replaced total category entries query.
- Added two new options vbsed_list_recent, vbsed_list_popular.
- Added Maintenance page in admincp, for misc tasks.
- Added simple logging of common actions adminlog.

vBulletin Blog 1.0.4 Changelog
- 24005 - SQL Error - Send to Friend
- 23975 - class_akismet.php conflict with vBulletin 3.7
- 24148 - Can't modify blog option in the Admin CP

It's Freazing

Tefra — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:41:01 GMT

The last few days it's so cold here in Greece, and as i was speaking with a friend over msn he sent me this i couldn't stop myself from laughing.

Seriously i can see how this business can work successfully but what's the point in a snowy place :D

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Site Changelog #4

Tefra — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:22:34 GMT

vBSed 1.0.4 Changelog Maintenance Release
- Fixed Bug in GPUDB creating new entry during the edit of an old one.
- Added functionality to add multiply logged downloads per page. e.g. here
- Code tweaks in all major files.
- Template and Phrases changes/additions. as in every other release

That's all for today, i just called this version as Maintenance Release to have a reason to upload it :p

Site Changelog #3

Tefra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:18:25 GMT

vBSed 1.0.3 Changelog
- Adapted vB Permission system Bitfields
- Added rating for pages and terms.
- Added RSS Feed for the *site categories and the computer terminology.
- Added ability for admins to browse all pages.
- Added notification for pages in validation queue. (One step closer for user pages, like user reviews)
- Added Stats area for the pages.
- Multiply template enhancements.
- Multiply phrases additions.

Site Categories: downloads, articles etc, look for the rss icons.

Site Changelog #2

Tefra — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:30:28 GMT

vBSed 1.0.2 Changelog
- Fixed multiply bugs with the sfs's categories system.
- Added Faq for the Computer Terminology.
- Added Faq for the Startup Processes.
- Added Faq for the GPU Database.
- Updated Search procedure for both startup and terminology.
- Fixed broken file require in terminology.
- Removed the hardcoded html in term and startup functions, two new templates.
- Multiply changes in the templates and the template names.
- Added new option vbsed full path and changes allover the core files. (Thinking about the future)
- Added md5 file check to secure the files versions.
- Added term relations for pages. Pages->ToolBox->Enable/Disable Term Relations
- Added new options for dates vbsed_longdateformat, vbsed_shortdateformat, vbsed_mediumdateformat.
- Added quick site search. Powered by Google

Once again most of those probably mean nothing to you but i keep track of the changes!

vBSed About

Tefra — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:45:12 GMT

vBSed is the name behind the huge 3dacc v08 upgrade. vBSed is a custom made cms script written around vbulletin and it is based on the not so popular but brilliant cms seditio.

3dacc.net was using from the very first day until the 25th December 2007 the seditio as a cms. Content Management System. I really appreciate seditio cause it taught me how to code in php. As time passed and many custom sections were added the need for better integration was becoming bigger and bigger. As my php skills improved i planned to create a new cms based on seditio for exclusive use in vb. The result is what you see now vBSed.

What vBSed inherited from seditio ?
- The very basic api of categories and pages. The categories system is just brilliant and although the end result of vBSed doesn't resolve so much seditio in coding it was a great step for me.
- The coding sense, and order.

Why did you need to throw away seditio?
- The lack of any hope for integration with vbulletin.
- The current progress in seditio's development.
- My shrewd thought that i needed more than a cms, i wanted mine cms.

vBSed Feature List
- Unlimited levels categories system.
- Multi-purpose pages. (multi-page articles, downloads, links)
- Site File Storage.
- Terminology.
- Startup Processes DB.
- GPU DB.

The vBSed isn't online for too long but it made a huge impression to some veteran vb site owners. I know, i got your emails. For the time being i don't plan in any way to release it, Free or Paid.

Btw if there is any company who likes my work here on 3dacc and wants to hire a php/mysql coder like me for full or part time work, i am interested. Above all webmaster, college student, gamer, or whatever i feel developer.