Posts Tagged ‘Web Server’

WTF!?

By K2 on May 21st, 2010 at 3:35 pm EST

I know, right? Where have the news posts been? WTF!? ;)

Well let’s see… I quit playing DAoC about a month ago, as it was taking up way way too much of my free time. Was a lot of fun though while it lasted – made a guild, met some cool guys from Sweden and South Korea as well as right here in America, so it wasn’t a total loss. Just can’t do the ‘grind’ and not upset the wife at the same time, heh. Soooo, as far as gaming goes, I just play Dragon Age when I have a spare moment. Easy to play as it’s strictly single-player and I can stop n’ save whenever I need to. Win-win as they say.

College is over and done with, been looking for a part-time job, and am also doing some type of tech-based business internship this summer, hopefully starting soon. My time with the National Guard is almost up (four more drills left) and have been enjoying spending time with Koa, our German Shepherd pup (see my personal album for some recently uploaded pics).

Site-related – just finished updating the msgboard and photo gallery to their latest versions. Nothing major, and nothing you’d notice, but it’s good to stay current.

That’s all I got folks… hope you’re enjoying your spring. See ya next time.

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Test post (phpBB3 3.0.6/WPU 0.8 update)

By K2 on January 17th, 2010 at 9:17 pm EST

Test post…

OK, if you’re reading this, then the major backend updates I performed were a success. There are a few bugs, such as the ‘recent forum posts’ widget on the sidebar showing every single post ever made, as well as a couple other minor bugs, but overall it’s gone smoothly. I’ve let the WPU mod author know of the issues I’ve discovered, so hopefully we’ll have some fixes soon.

I have many more updates and tweaks to do regarding 3rd party phpBB3 mods, as well as a few more look n’ feel tweaks. The worst is over and done with though ;)

EDIT – if ya guys could please, go through various functions here and on the board, use the comments function here for this news post (you’ll notice it’s now fully integrated between WP and phpBB3) and so on. Some bugs the WPU author has already fixed and I’ve implemented, but if you find any other bugs or notice any weird behavior, lemme know. Thanks.

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Site backend update, some downtime

By K2 on January 17th, 2010 at 4:37 pm EST

Just an FYI folks, the website is going to be down later tonight and probably the better part of tomorrow as well. A long-anticipated new version of WP-United was released today, and in turn I’ll need to update phpBB3 and related mods at the same time as I update WP-United. That’s a lot of work ;) I’ll need to restrict access to the site during this time to ensure everything goes OK, and that no posts are lost in case I have to roll everything back to current versions. I’m performing a full site backup right now. As soon as that’s finished, the site will be locked down – no access will be permitted until the updates are complete and I’m happy with the results.

In the meantime, go watch the Jets/Chargers playoff game, kickoff is in three minutes ;) See ya soon.

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News!!

By K2 on November 1st, 2009 at 7:23 am EST

Yeah, let’s post some news! Heh, so what is there to tell? Not a whole lot HF-wise… game servers are still down, and I still need to finish the website look n’ feel after the OnePress debacle. That’s about it. On a personal note though, things have been going well. I’m back in college and making A’s, Jenn loves her new job, we made a new addition to the family six weeks ago in the form of a very intelligent and trouble-making German Shepherd pup named ‘Koa’, and Jenn and I are celebrating our 3rd year wedding anniversary today. I actually get to be here for this one ;-)

Anyways. Hope that all of you have been doing well also, and that ya have fun during the upcoming holidays. I will be learning how to snowboard, heh ;-) Until next time…

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Another site change…

By K2 on June 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm EST

Yeah. Right now the site looks like ASS. When I did the Hardfought site overhaul, I used a portal script called OnePress to merge WordPress and the phpBB3 forums together. Worked pretty well, but just recently OnePress announced that they are seriously considering dropping support for phpBB3 – their latest update does not include support for the latest update to phpBB3 with the latest update to WordPress, both of which have important security and function upgrades. Luckily, another WP/phpBB3 portal called WP-United (which is what I use with mine and my wife’s personal website) has been revitalized and is alive and kicking with full support of both of the latest updates to WordPress and phpBB3. I just finished removing the OnePress content, updated phpBB3 and WordPress (as well as the photo gallery for the msgboard) and have just finished installing WP-United. It works, but as you can see there’s a shit ton of work to do… again.

The forums and everything associated with it still function fine, just please bear with the look n’ feel until I can make the necessary updates. Enjoy.

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Hardfought 2.0 goes live!!

By K2 on April 5th, 2009 at 4:42 am EST

Yeah boy! Hahah… finally. If you’re reading this, you’re seeing Hardfought with a brand new style. Same theme, but with a totally new layout, from what you can see to the way things work on the back-end. I still have a lot of work to do to get the site exactly the way I want it, but the major hurdles have been um… hurdled ;) So enjoy the site! Let me know what ya think, good or bad. I realize that certain lil things may be missing… I just noticed that ‘previous topic/next topic’ is not present on phpBB3. There are also plug-ins and scripts that I had incorporated into the old msgboard that haven’t made their way to the new board, but will. Like the photo album galleries; that’s the big one I will start work on ASAP. Quick reply, that’ll show it’s face as well. So on and so forth.

Alright. Back to work ;-)

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Hardfought 2.0

By K2 on March 18th, 2009 at 4:11 am EST

On more than one occasion in the past I’ve said I was going to do an overhaul to the website. Those overhauls either never happened, or it turned into something more like a slight modification. Some were more significant than others, but overall the site has looked the same since day one.

It’s finally time to bring Hardfought into the 21st century :-P

I started work on a new look and feel earlier today. I’m using a portal script called OnePress that integrates Wordpress and phpBB3. The benefits are a seamless transition between the two, integrated functionality (example: recent posts from phpBB into a wordpress front page widget), and an excuse for me to upgrade the msgboard to phpBB3. Luckily for us, the conversion from phpBB2 to 3 is very easy and virtually painless. All forums, posts, users, groups, permissions, avatars, attachments, etc carry over.

Wanna see what’s in place so far? Go to http://test.hardfought.org – right now its just proof of concept and testing out functionality. All news posts minus this one and the one before it are present, and all forum posts from around noon my time today and before are present. You should be able to login and browse around, but for right now posting ability is disabled. If for some reason you CAN post, please lemme know, cuz ya shouldn’t ;-)

I have a lot of work to do still. If you have any suggestions, I am open to any that ya may have. I do want to preserve some of the look n’ feel, but certainly not all of it, or even most of it. And this move also puts the website into Web 2.0 territory. My goal is to be able to pass the W3C Markup Validation Service to as close to 100% as possible. Anyways… I just started my 30 day block leave, so I have all sorts of time to hash it out.

Lemme know whatcha think ;-)

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