I've not been here for.. a long while. Figured I'd drop by and see what's going on.

Welcome back, Surtsey. We'll see you around the forum.

~SC


"All of us are better than the worst thing we have ever done."

"None of us knows more than all of us."

The place doesn't seem quite as lively as I remember it long ago. What happened?

Sadly a few of the old members are gone/disappeared these days.

Even despite that, it's been a lot slower around here period. No real explanation I guess... people just busy with life I suppose.

Bummer. I believe I did notice Krip take off at one point, which to be honest doesn't bother me much we never got along well (not entirely his fault). Is that Muppet fellow still sticking around?

I notice you guys are trying to get a main website up and running. Might I inquire as to how you're managing the content? We may be able to provide each other some assistance.

>edit<

I need to find BlueMuppet so I can gripe at him for not (apparently) doing anything with BlackWinter. I've periodically checked the place every few months for the last year and a half, only to see various `coming soon` screens.

Weird. It's always interesting when someone who's usually on frequently disappears for a year or more.

And what's up with there only being one skin for the BB? This thing makes my eyes water. I remember this place used to have a nice green skin as well as a red one I liked.

It's probably not worth being all secretive.

I'm writing, of all things, a content management system that I firmly believe blows everything else out of the water. Sure, I have a biased perspective, but it's still excellent software. It won't be release-ready for probably another month or so, but I'm looking for anyone and everyone who'd like to beta test it for me.

Features include:
-It's 100% dynamic templateset driven, you can modify absolutely any aspect of presented information or structure
-Multiple templatesets (skins) are integrated
-Multilingual capable
-Exceedingly fast. Right now the average pagebuilds on my development server are 0.009-0.012 which is much faster than anything else I've come acrossed. Especially considering how powerful the system is.
-It's modular and integrating new functionality is incredibly easy
-There's a magic template system which allows direct access to the API through the tools I provide. It lets you make code inserts that work with the system when called in templates.

That's a small list of its more notable core features (since all other features are usually incorporated via loadable module and rely on that module). Right now there's a newslet module, a user module (it's a core module and is included with the distro) and an administrative module (also core). I'm either working on or planning to work on modules for anything from image galleries, download managers, bulletin boards to games.

You can get more information about it here, here and here. AlkaliNET.com (where all those links lead to) is running an older version core, it's on 0.3.0 and version I'm building right now is 0.6.0. 0.6.0 won't be stable for a little while longer though. Oops, I left out an important page -> ArchetypeCMS