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Just finished updating nb development to CS 2008 SP1.  Took me about 2 hours to figure out why the site wasn’t working after the initial upgrade.  Lol.  Note to self, remember to run the upgrade SQL Script. lol. Anyhow, you may of noticed in the new look athena theme, complete with header images, which change both randomly, and with your mouse movements.  Click on the << paint pot to get the athena bar and then look at the header images. The script that generates them takes...

NB Development is happy to present the new look migrator project interface. Using a aero wizard interface, or what looks like one, to display a fully featured, quick, and minimalist interface. These are only alpha screenshots at the moment, since the interface is far from done. The Welcome Screen This screenshot shows it best, with the aero wizard styled window, after the rest of the interface is done the welcome page will be fitted with more stuff than currently shown. The back button is not enabled...

The new Look Migrator's Source Code on codeplex has just had a Console based application added to it for testing, and low level debugging. You get to see some debug events as the migrator fires them. This is working using the latest LIVE source code, and a temp built provider for community server. I should use PowerShell, but I can't be asked to learn it just yet. As you can see in the screenshot, the commands are similar to powershell, but the application works like a standard .net console...

I've just finished making this control for LiveSide which adds the ability to show your Windows Live Messenger status. It uses PURE community server style controls, which is something I'm very proud of. The Live ID SSO module didn't. It's quite simple to implement if you know what your doing. I've made it so it's 1 small dll. 10kb in side, which has a Community Server Sub Form, and 2 community server link type controls. You need to have a page detailing your site's privacy...

This week has been a productive week for simple theme making, with 2 new Themes uploaded to the Theme Shop . All for £10.00, payable via paypal. More themes will be added in the coming weeks, mostly on Friday, but they could appear at any time during the week. Thanks to Glazed and BlueBloggers I'm now back up to the total I was hoping to be at by today. With 4 themes online. And plenty more to come. Quick shout outs to www.Free-CSS-Templates.com and www.freecsstemplates.org . Both sites have...

Design of the new Migrator Project has begun, and I've got some pictures to share with you, including the new look Class Diagram of the Core, as well as some new sample Win Forms interface idea's. The development of the migrator project will last from now until May 2008, by which time I hope to have completed the project. Right, the class Diagram: (Click for bigger image) This is a class diagram from visual studio outlining the classes in the new migrator project. This diagram, as well as...

Last Friday I made the Theme Store , by this Friday I'm hoping for this to be completed, so that the new Themes, as part of the Theming , will be available for purchase. The theme store uses the file gallery, as well as paypal's express checkout service. Currently it's using the Sandbox paypal site you allow me to finish the coding, but once it's ready, I'll make it Live for all of you to play with. There's still some things still left to do with the Theme Store , like, make...

Since early Saturday morning all of the sites hosted by NB Development , that's, nbdev.co.uk, showcase.nbdev.co.uk, techienick.com, cs-listings.com, and some others went silent. At about 2pm BST I found out that the server has been taken offline due to a phishing attack and penetration on the server. Now we have no idea how this happened, something to do with an IE backdoor and recycle bin being compromised. As soon as I found out about it, I redirected DNS to a holding page, just so you know...