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This is a script we use on the norwegian community root.no to show the latest messages from our IPB forum in our WordPress blog template.

When I wanted the skitX blog converted from Serendipity to ExpressionEngine I asked around for an MT Export script for s9y. There was none, so I decided to create it for myself. For those of you who don’t know, MT stands for Movable Type and is SixApart‘s blogsystem. It’s a pretty simple plain-text format which [...]

This will describe how I converted my norwegian webmaster forum which ran the SimpleMachines forum software to ExpressionEngine with the forum module installed. The SMF_Import module I’ve created can be used to import both users and forum messages to EE, or just the users if you only want to import these.

After I had problems with RegisterFly a while back, I started looking into their ToC. That is, what I had agreed to when using their service. Without reading it first, of course. I have always wondered what kind of people read the toc of websites before using them Here are a couple of highlights, my [...]

Argh! Lately I’ve had some problems with my local development server. It just gave me a blank html when accessing localhost .. So, I reinstalled xampp (Apache+PHP+MySQL combo) – found out that didn’t fix anything. Took backup of all my htdocs and mysql data, uninstalled xampp completely (sort of knowing that xampp was messed up). [...]

Cairngorm is a framework for creating RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) using Flex. The problem is that it’s pretty fresh, and there is not too much documentation and examples out there yet. So, here’s a list of the stuff I found while searching The Cairngorm wiki @ Adobe is a nice starting point AboutNico linked me [...]

At fotb06 I found out that I love AS3 since it practically looks and feel just like Java. As long as Flex doesn’t start to look and feel just like Swing I’ll be happy .. anyhow, just now I stumbled across this quote on (http://www.bash.org/?top2): Sigurd: a sprite is anything not static SRElysian: a sprite [...]

I’ve had days of downtime on all of my websites which had domains registered through RegisterFly – because of a payment dispute on a single renewal. It’s just insane. This is what happened: I had a domain that was expiring and I was unable to renew it because their system is buggy as hell. First [...]

The biggest Flash conference to hit the UK for over 6 years kicks off on Monday! The speaker list is absolutely awesome, with the top designers & developers in the world flying in to speak. Add super swag, a couple of parties and you can see that this is an event not to miss! Don’t [...]

This just in; 37signals just released their book called “Getting Real” in html format, free to the masses. Read it free online here Have been thinking of buying it for a while, but now I can read a few chapters and see what it’s about. If it’s good I’ll probably buy the paperback.