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This summer, i open the doors to any coder who is interested to rehearse any of my Homeworks, and i also invite coders, designers and developers to advertise their work and release their free releases here, in the Showroom.

I’ve been working on a lot of things lately, more than planned as i could say. I’ve been in discussions with a lot of guys on the market, and as a load of coders in the vBulletin industry are leaving since IB took-over Jelsoft, i have plenty of stuff to take-over, and a lot of friends happy to see me do it… but i am a father at home with 4 kids… i can not focus on that much work on my own.

So i want to offer a participation to any coder who is fluent in vBulletin, with OOP and AJAX knowledge, to help me on this task. Some jobs are to be paid, but mainly they are to be Complimentaries, so i can not pay much to update them…

There is more about development, but for the begining of summer, i try to update everything i have in the backstore, everything that is in the homeworks, and any small ideas i could have while driving vBulletin on others sites… Suggestions are also welcome, but i try to focus on what was forgotten in the last weeks.

If you think you can fit the job, just PM me so we can talk…

a note about vB.org … i may insult you if i say that, but i do not trust anybody who’s only reputation come from vb.org… if you have no life outside of vb.org, forget it, i’m way more capable than you’ll ever be. I want people with experience, i want people with ideas to share and work on… i hate followers, i want leaders…

Also, a side note for the clients… i also need you, for ideas and requests. All year long, one of the challenging thing i do on vbEnhancer.com is to release at least 2 complimentaries per week… i’ve done so for the last 5 months, with something like 50 unique releases… and i have about 10 to release in the next 10 days, so i’ll have a hit… 🙂

Everybody is welcome on vbE, it’s all up to you to take your place!

hello all,

what are the rules for downloading attachments? I am interested this hack..

https://unpapapro.com/vbe-complimentaries/statistics-tendencies/4955/

I’d also like to see what else is around. thanks!

Not really sure if it’s still allowed to use this section for paid requests.. If not, feel free to remove this one :grin_Sealed:

I’m currently using a plugin hooked to threadbit_display. It seems however it’s causing one extra query per thread.
Something I’d like to get rid of..

Also, because this plugin is a mixture of several readmes I would like to have this plugin optimized using the vB3.8.x standards. (This all under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)

[php]require_once(‘./includes/functions_user.php’);
$userid = $thread;
$username = $thread;
$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($userid);
if ($avatarurl ==  ») {
$avatar = « « ;
}
else {
$avatar = « « ;
}[/php]
I will pay 20% right after the job is confirmed, and 80% right after the job is finished. (Currently I’m thinking about 35,- USD total, paid by verified Paypal)

If you’re interested please contact me by pm at this board.

If possible including your real name, age, and reference of modifying you might have done in the past.

Reference of past successful paid requests:
vBulletin.org Forum
vBulletin.org Forum
vBulletin.org Forum

like explained here: REQ: universal Ajax function/script to activate/deactivate i’d like to have a guy who can build a complete small solution for my ajax needs…

here is something i think is a start;

you know that icon in the Who’s Online page:

… now it is clickable, so you can visit the page the user is viewing.

This is perfect when you see that a user have a error message and you can not figure for the sake of it what is the thread/page he is reading only by the url… because by default, the only thing you can do is hovering the icon and you can see the url, threadid, or forumid, etc… but no content… so, no idea of what it is!

Simply install… this is a minimalist product that will change the icon to a clickable link, which will open a new browser window to the member’s location so you can visit it too…

In the releases threads, you will see that there is no « Attached Files » block in the bottom of the first postbit… look at the top, i moved it there…

For better access, you do not have to scroll down on large postbits, and also because it look great… 🙂

i’ve done that change ONLY for the attached files, not the attached images and thumbnails… which will still be at the bottom, for a good display… anyway, most of the screenies i do are integrated in the post itself as they all need a legend!

Ok, vacations are coming, and as some guys here already know, i’ll be on vacation « partly »… each week i go on camping with the kids, 3 or 4 days per week. We have a plan to drive 7500km this summer, so you can be sure we will see a lot of landscape…

on coding btw, i suppose i will see more codelines. In the next days i revisit all the existing products on this site to be sure they are all debugged completely on their actual version. Then i check what i have in the backstore to release what was not uploaded yet… i have 3 or 4 commercial addons on that path.

Next?!… in July, i code iTrader 3.0. About 50 hours of work to make it what i planned, and that version will have a different shape than what we already know. First, the core itself will be a single file, and there will be no more bug on missing userid etc… this was part of the past technique, now the goal will be to have an interface instead of a display room. More to come on that.

The Discreet Sponsor system. Discreet because sponsors are not banners, they are not to fill 50% of your display. That engine is more for the comemrcial sites that need to fill their bank of advertisers… AdSense and other tools can be added, but they are not the target, as they are automatic engines that require no real features but to display some javascript. A sponsor system is different, it requires contact with the sponsor himself, it display stats (which i become good at the moment) and some real tracking…

Multi-language engine… will let your forum have one single license and display different forums for each language you want to have there… This is a known product i had, but lately, i had to fight with Jelsoft about it… i won. no need of a second license for each language, as your site is still the same.

More things to be announced as they are coded!

Have a good summertime!

A lot of things changed at Jelsoft..

99% of the staff moved, for whatever personal reasons they announced, the fact is that they are now replaced with a complete new development team.

The development leak we saw weeks ago is a prank to what they do not say. people/members at vb.com and vb.org try to evaluate what’s going on and what will be… pointless… why do they feel interested when they have no interest in the business… they just have too much time to loose if you ask me.

Most of the people that complain about how IB deal with the situation have no idea whatsoever on what is a business… they are admins on fan sites, they own a parenting site or even worst… how can they evaluate the path of a big company like IB?… they can not, they complain like the regular drama queens, because they have too much spare time. On my side, i can see what’s going on, i deal with that kind of businesses for ages. as an example, 2 years ago i suggested to Escalate to stop the pushing on marketing and banners… they refused to hear, they did not like my way to see things… and now, they loose their flagships one after the other… CF.com, Yada, etc… why?.. because these sites were better left alone and that’s something Lee did not understand, because he was closed to the idea. I know the market, i know what-not to do, and i know that IB is actually making a serious move to their profit… i like it. I do not know the background of it, but i seriously doubt the old staff of Jelsoft left because they were kicked out. When we are competent, we do not leave on a big wave.

btw, would i continue to name the company « Jelsoft » ?? bah.. i prefer the term « IB|vB »… 😉 Jelsoft itself is dead, nobody there is to say the opposite. It was ingested into IB and i think it’s a good thing if they want to continue the development on their own way.

Why some Jelsoft guys think i’m a moron and a complete shit of troll?… hum, because they are jealous maybe? This have nothing to do with the business of coding some enhancements for vBulletin, i can say that… or if?! they stole so much things from the vb.org guys when they needed ideas for 3.x… that may be a reason why they can not smell me… because i continue to have ideas and they can not legally steal my work without asking.

That’s also why vb.org need a revamp. At first, the guys at Jelsoft were able to see the use of any hack released there, and they just had to duplicate them and integrate our ideas without even asking permission… I don’t care if they say the opposite, it’s too pathetic. It was proven so much times that each good idea released on vb.org was then integrated into the next version of vB… i could count and put on the timeline at least 500 of them… i have the codes, i have the released versions, i can show you. but i will not loose my time on that. Ok, so vB.org need to be rebuilt, but why?… to permit the releasers to have a better place on the market… not that IB need competition, but they need more enhancements, they need « free » support for their software, they need competent coders who can code outside the box. The more real efficient tools released on vb.org, the more clients will purchase vB 4.0 to have the most versatile engine on the market. It can not be made without the gurus.

I’m not keen on the templates system… so what, will i leave for that?… if i’m not happy, i can recode it. i can offer a better solution for my clients if i need to. I am not happy with the CMS logics… will i leave ?… i just have to go with my knowledge and modify it to fit my needs…

That’s why vB 4.0 will be interesting… 3.X was already interesting, but the new structure of the vB 4.0 code will help developing alternatives… so i can make more tools, i can offer more services and i can even suggest my work to IB if i feel i could make profit from it, and that’s what i plan on making.

And what with the MTF engine… Drew is still independant with it, as i left it to him, because i think he can develop way faster without me in his path. That’s a great piece of softcode that can be added to vb 4.0 way easily, as it is coded in OOP, which vb 4.0 appreciate.

So, what’s left to do? what will i do in the next months?

As i said in an earlier thread about my situation, i’m still coding for the 3.8.x line, and i will still do it until the 3.8.x is abandonned by IB. I suggested to Ray Morgan that a side-site be developped to continue the legacy of 3.8 after the 4.0 release… because it’s a complete different engine, like two generations apart, and people will still have the choice to run their site with the 3.8 so they need support, they need releases… i’d like to handle such a site, like i’m actually releasing 3.8 only codes. I could easily rejoin members that left vb.org because i work in a different path, i could also take-over left/abandonned releases like i’ve done in the past also… This is something IB need to evaluate seriously so they do not loose any client, they could even gain some.

what with vb.org?… bah, i’m still member there, i do not say a word, they don’t even know i’m there… i have more than 30 clients accounts on vb.com, so how could they track all my clients. I’m not pirating, i’m just bored of Paul’s attitude so i do not show up… he could not ban me again because his PMS. I’m not interested in the actual structure, the site need a complete rebuild, like IB is doing with Jelsoft… vb.org is the fan extension of vb.com, but it’s different. it need to become the place where commercial coders can advertise, where they could support more tools than just the core of vB. Having a real commercial directory would bring profits and visibility to IB, and for sure a lot of coders from other projects would advertise their bu$ine$$e$.

The actual administration structure is for lazies… Paul prefer integrating his own products without any announcement instead of giving useful solutions to the actual bugs on the site… his « Unread Posts » addon is completely pointless, he placed it there to show he is able to code useful tools only… nobody ever requested to see this on the vb.org… instead, 10s of other kind of requests are rejected by Paul because he have no time to spend on debugging… how responsible.

vb.org is supposed to be a showroom for vB enhancements, not for the staff asses. it is not even a showroom of vB, because they refuse to update the site, they refuse to have a style that reflect vBulletin, they have that dark ugly style that can be replicated on millions of sites and have no taste. That site need a complete rehearsal, it need to be cleared of the existing stuff and staff, and it have to be driven by commercial pros, code gurus and paid staff. investing 50K on a site like this would bring back all the lost clients and would tease hundreds of new clients that are always in search of solutions…

one thing that is bad on vb.org… the « Pre-Sales » forum… it is supposed to be for presales questions, but each time someone ask a technical question, they are kicked out with a stupid unpersonal sentence… « You are currently showing up as unlicensed., blah blah blah… »… hey morons, that’s the goal of the forum, asking before being licensed. And why a pre-sales if the site is not tend to have sales… two sites was never a good solution. people have to register twice, have to verify their accounts etc… i’m sure 75% of the vb.org members have two accounts for one goal. Could we not simply have a sub-forum to handle the products?…

a real place where coders are welcome, that’s what vb.org need to be… a place where they can show their potential, so « maybe » one day IB would buy their releases, IB would even be able to hire some guys for specific projects and extensions… that’s something IB can do already, but as they do not have a real place like that, they have to announce new job calls, they have to check far away to see new coders for vB… they have a good list on vb.org, but if they are to be refered from the vb.org admins, i’m sure none of the real coders is refered… because vb.org admins actually want to keep their asses cleared. see how it goes with me… i’m banned from vb.org because i’m useful to the community. in releases and support, i may be one of the 20 most useful guys there, and i’m not even respected.

anyway, this is not a rant, it’s a display of what’s going on with me regarding IB… i like how they drive right now *(and don’t add that i like what they did with the Jelsoft guys, i’m not happy about that, but that is business…)

See me in the future!

Well I became an Acolyte to share my works with this community, and that’s exactly what I intend on doing.. These are 2 little custom modifications that I have running on my forums, and am currently documenting some installation instructions for..

Tidy Custom Profile Fields (Social & Gaming Networks)
Edit Your Details – Member Info

User’s Playlist.com in Pop-Up
User Postbit – Member Info – Pop-Up Window

Nexia kindly asked if I would like a separate small subscription fee to my shared works, but since these are re-thinks (from scratch) on already available modifications, they’ll be released as donation ware.. 🙂

A warm greeting to everybody!
Hello to all,i am a new member of this forum and hope to have a good experience here