Hi!

Introduction

About mods.tikigod.org

Hosting and Development Links

Thanks you people for my Tiki-God status

CVS Activity

History about me

I've been a Linux Guru since leaving secondary school, during 2 years at college trying to master the various annual slackware releases and now I'd like to say that I can fix most problems in the Red Hat varient. Linux is running on all my PC's apart from 1 I use for my Visual Basic work. Ive now recently downloaded the Fedora Core 1 and installing onto my day to day workstation.

Damosoft is my work. 2004 will see the installation of my new Dual P4 Processor webserver ready for some Hosting, including TikiWiki hosting! See TikiFriendlyHosts for more details!
News Update: I'm currently playing with different RAID configurations! Wont be long now!!

Other things? Well Im a petrol head: I've got a Citroen CX Fam. under restoration, Citroen XM Im using each day, Volvo 740 my load lugger, Fiat 500 awaiting space to restore it, Pugeot 205Cti awaiting garage space too, 1990 Fiat Tipo. And the new arrival a 1977 Citroen GS Club Estate I have been offered another Citroen CX but I dont think I have the space for it

TikiWiki News

I was the release manager for the 1.7.5 bugfix version Please see ReleaseProcess175 for more details. I am also a TikiWiki Project admin.

Things Completed

Damosoft Theme Description

Theme Makeover at Damosoft

Over the last couple of days I have been working on modifing the moreneat into a creation to use on damosoft.co.uk. I didnt want the 3 column layout, so settled for a 2 column. I have got a modified tiki-top_bar with a banner zone along the top, my 3 jabber status indicators are also in the header. Underneath we have a menubar, with register/login, (Why do people insist that the login box always have to be displayed??) The wiki page tpl has another banner zone on it which I'm working on Flash adverts for, and its also had some {if $user} added to prevent the wiki action buttons from appearing and I've replaced the pagetitle to be the page description. Also on the wiki pages I have added a more friendly approach to the last modified date. Tiki-bot_bar consists of a series of buttons including my Freeworld voip indicator. On the right column we have a custom menu module and a RSS Latest Virus information feed. When you register and get assigned into different project groups, project module boxs appears on the right as well. You can see all this in action at http://www.damosoft.co.uk. OH! Something you have to see is the modification ive made to error.tpl. When you visit the site, click on either the Newsletters or the Games on the menu and you'll see we have given the tpl a makeover and a more friendly approach. Next I was to replace icons on the forum tpls Enjoy! p.s. its all in 1.7.4

More completed work

• Meta tag admin screens
• Made a babybot from TikiBot to hang around in #damosoft although babybot has the same annoying behavour problems as TikiBot in that they both disconnect and reconnect as they feel like it.
  Installation for www.damosoft.co.uk tiki integration was simple enough, although the bot modules had to be customised.
  babybot uses !D where as TikiBot uses !T, so they could exist on the same channel if needed.
  really the ! wants changing otherwise you will get 2 replys with !php etc
  The behaviour pattern needs to be corrected before I could leave babybot alone
• Added Horizontal menu support into TikiWiki from phplayers, thanks to mose for the initial vertical and tree integration!
  Alot more work can be done in this area, especially for colour changes of themes, nested submenus, change of the submenu template files (ihtml files)
  you need to have the phplayers menu style classes in your themes CSS file.
• Backported phplayers menu to 1.7.5 codebase
  anyone want this? I can put into CVS

Things Im doing

• BlogDev
• AccountsModuleDev for TikiWiki
• JukeboxDev and Jukebox for TikiWiki 1.9
• DamoECard system into TikiWiki too?
• Get some integrated online ordering (shop) into TikiWiki

Things on my mind...

Track down a voice gateway to tiki (Voice Browser) that can be run from a normal phone line. This would have so many uses for TikiWiki, such as a Telephone Information Line. There is a project on SourceForge but it requires a ISDN line. I would need this gateway interface to work with a normal analogue telephone line.

PDA Browsing

My TikiWiki Sites

Offical TikiWiki Sites

• http://uk.tikiwiki.org
• http://doc.tikiwiki.org
• http://mods.tikigod.org - Modding Tiki Site

My Sites

• Running Tiki 1.7.4
  • http://rccars.damosoft.homelinux.net - personal site me and my brother about Radio Control Model Cars
  • http://auctions.damosoft.homelinux.net - basic site using only the Image galleries
• Running Tiki 1.8
  • http://www.damosoft.co.uk

Sites for 2004

• Sites running Tiki CVS Head
  • http://damian.parkersworld.org - My personal site
  • http://taryn.parkersworld.org - My daughters site, her theme has been added to the CVS HEAD.

Development Sites

• http://tikigod.org - Might be broke, might work, so dont shout, its my playground

Enjoy YOUR Tiki!