To my own surprise (not), I got fed up with my old blog style and when I saw this awesome Rockwell WP theme, I just had to have it. It’s simply gorgeous!
In other news, I have decided to stop using my Firefox bookmarks for storing all the many (links to) tutorials that I’ve read or want to read (again). Instead I will use my blog with the Web Directory plugin. It’s built on the links feature in WordPress and it’s very easy to use. So here’s the tutorials page.
As you can see, I’ve updated the style/skin/theme whatever you prefer to call it. It took me a while to figure out what look I wanted exactly. But I’m pretty happy with how it is now.
I’ll probably make a few adjustments as I go along, but hopefully this is the look that my site will keep for a while. Knowing how fickle I can be about these things though… Oh well, we’ll see. 
So, for posterity: at the time of this writing, this website looked like this:
PS: From now on, all the English blog entries I would have put on paulvoth.net will now be posted here. I will keep paulvoth.net for my German blog entries. I keep running into problems with multi-lingual blogs and I think I’ll lay off that for a while.
So for my faithful English speaking readers: from now on you won’t need to know der, die, das to understand my blog.
Yes, I am working on new look for Drummy. The main layout is pretty much finished and I’m just ironing out a few little things. It’s going to be nice and clean and I’m using the Thematic Theme Framework for the first time.
I’ve never worked with theme frameworks before, so it’s interesting to try this. It’s not actually less work – only the work is a lot more pleasant. Once I’ve gotten to know the framework, I’m sure the amount of looking/adjusting time will be reduced greatly.
What I’m REALLY struggling with at the moment is finding the right music to work to. I always have music running while I’m working, but it has to be just right. Not too boring and not too attention-grabbing. Music that is so good that it doesn’t have to be all in your face. It’s perfectly happy to just stay in the background because it just knows it has class and style and doesn’t feel the need to convince anyone of it.
If you have any recommendations, let me know here or via Twitter (@BeenTold).
First things first – happy new year. Last year was a complete and utter waste of time in many aspects. So here’s to hoping 2010 will be better…
But anyway.
We all remember last year, when suddenly a bunch of vBulletin developers left the fold. The shock was great and people were wondering, what’s coming next. Both for vBulletin and the ex-developers.
So today when I went on twitter to wish a few people a happy new year, I saw a message from Kier:
2009, you were as bad as a year could be. 2010 could be spectacular. Happy new year everyone. A toast to new beginnings.
And then:
Here comes 2010, good riddance to 2009! I can hardly wait to show everyone what will be coming this year. Good things to those who wait.
So, the ever level headed and sane person, I went and replied:
if you don’t start a new forum software I will throw myself off a tall building! *hopes that helps*
To that, Kier said:
quite lucky I don’t harbour any grudges against you then really! Keep away from tall buildings for the time being
Well, call me whatever you want – but I am right now officially predicting that Kier will be launching a forum software this year. This is my first prediction ever. So Kier, don’t you go and make me look like a fool now! 
I haven’t spoken to Kier about this, but he’s free to comment. 
I have to say, I was beginning to regain some trust in the management decisions behind vBulletin. Now that the GM (Ray Morgan) has gone, I was hoping for some sanity in the vBulletin decision making.
I actually thought it was funny that the release date for the Gold version is December 21st. Because in a thread on vBulletinSetup we were asked to guess the date and I wrote “December 21st”. I wonder if there’s going to be a prize?
Anyway – a few days ago, vBulletin Solutions (it still sounds weird – I liked “Jelsoft” better) sent out an e-Mail: Gold is days away! They wrote that things are going according to plan and that they are going to go Gold on December 21st.
Today (Sunday, December 20th), Scott Molinari, owner of vBulletin Germany made an announcement, proclaiming the launch of vBulletin 4. The announcement title reads “Gold version coming up! But for now, in English only.”
It appears that the German version of vBulletin 4 is going to be delayed somewhat. I suspected that this was normal for a major version, where a lot of text must be translated. But then I read the announcement and the reasons for the delay. And I don’t want to withhold those details from those vBulletin users who don’t speak German.
Hi everyone, just a quick update from me…
I’m still in the process of transfering all my (and my clients’) websites to two servers in the USA. One is a managed VPS and one is an unmanaged Dedicated Server. And I just want to let people know how happy I am with the two companies involved.
I’m using Servint for VPS and they have been outstanding. Very helpful, competent and fast!
As for my dedicated server, I’m using InterServer and they are MAGIC. I had a problem that turned out to be a little kernel issue. One of those things that a lot of hosts like to say “can’t see anything wrong on our side” about. Not InterServer. I submitted a ticked – just saying that the server was slower than usual.
Within 3 minutes (!) I had an answer from support. They said, it was a little kernel issue and they were recompiling a new version at the moment.
I have to say, this is by far the best customer service I have ever seen anywhere.
So if you are looking for a host, click one of the banners below. Also, have a look at Webhostingtalk.com and check on the customer reviews there – all positive.
PS:
Yes, I realize this sounds like a sales pitch – and it kind of is. I’m “advertising” the fact that I’ve found two awesome hosts. And I hope that I’ll be able to save a few people a headache or two.
In case you are wondering, why there’s nothing new – I am writing for paulvoth.net, my other blog, a lot these days. So there’s not much to report.
However, I have finally gotten around to creating a little mascot for this website. His name is Drummy (how original, I know) and he’s a friendly little fella.
It’s credible how little time you have when you need it most. I have a bunch of projects that really need some work done and yet I find myself lacking the time to do that work.
Having a regular job really sucks sometimes. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch up a little this weekend. Especially with this website, as it is getting quite a bit of traffic and has virtually no content yet.
So please bear with me, I will definitely get to this.
If you are looking for the Drummy Random Image Script – that is coming ASAP. I have already received some e-mails about it and I want you guys to know I’m on it. Coming really as soon as I have the time. This weekend hopefully.
Update September 19, 2009:
Good news everyone (Futurama rules ) – Drummy’s Random Image Script wizard is back online!
Use the wizard to generate a random image script for your website, forum, myspace page, whatever. All you need is the URLs of the images you want to use and the wizard.
Some people find the standard vBulletin buttons somewhat boring. And to be honest, I am one of those people. But that is not vBulletin specific. I usually create my own buttons for every forum I use. Be it vBulletin, InvisionPower, phpBB, MyBB or SMF. It just gives the whole forum a slightly different touch.
It stops the forum looking so “uncustomized”. You know, so standard.
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I’m really looking forward to making buttons for vBulletin 4 though, when it’s out. Because I have read somewhere that the buttons won’t be all graphics anymore. The actual button will be a graphic, but the text on it will be just normal text. So the button image will be used as a background for the text. It’s really neat!
That should make the process of creating those buttons a lot faster and easier..
Well, be that as it may – here’s the Sweet Blue vBulletin 3.x Button Set.
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