Happy Valentine’s Day!
February 14th, 2005, 12:09 am
Happy Valentine’s Day! I know it is a day early but I probably won’t have a chance to write anything tomorrow.
Yesterday I took the ACT. For those of you that don’t know what that is, it is a standardized test that Universities use to determine if you are accepted or not. A lot like the SAT. Here is Utah the schools look at your ACT score and don’t really care about your SAT. It wasn’t hard or anything like that. It was really long though. When I get my score in four to seven weeks, I’ll be sure to let you know what I got. I hope it is around 30.
XtroCMS now has two developers! I’m not the only one! A guy contacted me and he was interested in buying XtroCMS. He said that I could stay on as a developer. Right now is a bad time for that to happen since I have an idea in my head on what I want the first release of XtroCMS to be like. Also I’ve put a lot of work into it and I want to see it through until the first release. I asked him if he would like to help me finish the first release and then we can talk about him taking over after that is finished. He accepted.
You’ll probably see more features since two of us are working on it. I cut a lot of things that I wanted to do for the first release because I didn’t have time and I wanted to get it finished. Now that two of us are working on it, things should get done twice as fast.
I’m thinking of releasing an alpha within the next two weeks. Be on the look out for it.
About a week ago phpBB.com was hacked by a group of people that were in it for the glory. That is the only reason I can see why you would want to hack the website of an open source, free to use software. During their hacking they ended up messing the server up so the site was down for about a week. A couple days ago a temporary server was put in place of the old one while more investigation was done on the the server that was hacked.
No one needs to worry that phpBB.com was hacked through phpBB. The phpBB Team is pretty confident that the hackers got in through an exploit in Awstats. If it was through phpBB, you’d probably see it on all of the security trackers and a new version of phpBB would have been released. This isn’t the case so don’t worry about your phpBB board having security problems if you are running 2.0.11. If you are running anything lower than that, upgrade ASAP!
