spasticdonkey writes:  

PHPBB2 Forum BBCode Modification for RavenNuke™ v2.5, which expands the standard BBCode features to allow: audio/video embeds, text formatting/styling options, image/video positioning, dynamic twitter signatures, customizable color swatches, inline ajax help, forum search "tags", modal search functions for wikipedia and duckduckgo, as well as various other features.

Improved UI and CSS layout which can be customized per theme. Four sprite powered editor themes included in sand, light blue, crimson, and black; or build your own with a little CSS know-how and the included photoshop files. Several optional addons are included to further enhance your RavenNuke™ powered site; which allows you to add code highlighting, link icons, easy youtube videos, and/or hashtags.

After an easy installation, courtesy of a comprehensive, kickstart powered install guide, you may find yourself asking, "Who needs phpbb3?"

Find it at Tricked Out News and get previews or become a fan of the mod on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AdvancedBBCodeBoxForRavenNuke

Cannot believe that I forgot to release this module to the community! It was incorporated into the latest RavenNuke(tm) 2.50.00 release but then forgotten. Well, better late than never. It has been released! Please see our on-line Change Log (or that provided within the distribution package) for details as to what was modified for this release.

For a more detailed explanation of the TegoNuke(tm)/HTML Newsletter module and a more detailed list of features, check out the TegoNuke(tm)/HTML Newsletter Wiki page.

While this module was developed on RavenNuke(tm) for RavenNuke(tm), it may be possible to use on other *nuke variants with slight variations. Come get the latest download.

kguske writes:  

nukeSPAM(tm) enables site using the RavenNuke(tm) content management system (CMS) and other PHP-Nuke distributions to prevent user registration by known spammers. It features:

• Configurable blocking via 3 public spam databases and 14 DNS blacklists
• Advanced logging, reporting and false positive resolution
• Advanced whitelist maintenance
• Administrator function to check if username, email and / or IP address are blocked

Although nukeSPAM(tm) administration automatically creates the necessary database tables, integration with user registration requires code changes (instructions are included for RavenNuke(tm) Your Account).

nukeSPAM(tm) can be downloaded here. Download requires 7-zip. Free membership is required to download.

A few bugs were reported since the release of version 1.3.1 that we wanted to clean up quickly, hence this very small patch release. Since this is just a patch release, it is a simple matter of uploading a few scripts. But, please read the README.txt and UPGRADES.txt as always and it will guide you through this quick patch fix. In addition, see the CHANGELOG.txt file will list out exactly which files were added/modified/removed.

A few bugs were reported since the release of version 1.1.2 that we wanted to clean up quickly, hence this very small patch release. Since this is just a patch release, it is a simple matter of uploading a few scripts and an image. But, please read the README.txt and UPGRADES.txt as always and it will guide you through this quick patch fix. In addition, as always, the CHANGELOG.txt file will list out exactly which files were added/modified/removed.

Guardian writes:  

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 I would definitely consider taking up Guardian on this great offer.  He's got a lot of great scripts on sale and is cooking up even more (new scripts) in the near future!  montego

Feeling generous this time of year?  Why not throw a little bit Raven's way in support of the RavenNuke(tm) CMS that many of use each and every day.  Even before RavenNuke(tm), Raven's web site has been a generous provider of community support for PHP-Nuke and other forks for many years, with very little asked for in return.  It takes money to host such a site and it takes many volunteers to help provide the support that is there freely given.  

While PayPal is always a good way to donate to many of the great community-based projects, Flattr is another great method of passing along your thanks.  I wrote an article about Flattr several months back as a news article on this site to introduce this knew way of giving.  At the time, Raven didn't have a Flattr account, and while he does not display a Flattr button, you can always donate via Flattr to RavenWebServices (Raven) directly from the Flattr website.

The really GREAT feature with Flattr is that you can also subscribe to a "Thing" - in this case to RavenWebServices - to where the service will automatically generate a click each month for as many months as you wish, essentially acting as if you had clicked to donate each month.  If you only have a little bit to give each month, why not join up with Flattr, find the few open source projects that you find useful and use on a regular basis, and show your appreciation.  Every little bit helps and if all the RavenNuke(tm) site owners would just send a little bit each month, it would go a long way.

Now, to those who celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas to you, and to all, have a Happy and Safe New Years!

montego

Just a quick update: HTML Newsletter 1.4.0 and TegoNuke(tm) Downloads 1.1.3 have been released to the RavenNuke(tm) team as release candidates.  Each contains updates for issues identified by the team. 

We are very excited about these releases as they will be incorporated into the upcoming RavenNuke(tm) 2.5.0 version.  Development, of course, will continue to progress from Montego Scripts on these two products as each has defined product roadmaps.  Click on the link and sign-in as anonymous to see any of our product roadmaps.  If you want to suggest other enhancements, please post as such in our forums and we will gladly take these into consideration.  Of course, as always too, if you find a bug, please use our forums to report them so we may correct them as soon as possible (often times giving resolutions early on in the forum threads themselves).

Regards,
montego

Back in June, I had a need to make available a bunch of game photos to my son's team parents.  I was having DVD burning issues at the time and so went looking for an on-line file hosting service which could handle a large zip file of the photos plus the download bandwidth.  Unfortunately I didn't have a ton of time to investigate and I found one which looked like it would work for me: www.divshare.com.  Bad decision... even paid for it.

Why a bad decision?  I mean, their Privacy Policy, even today, says: 

We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:

• To fulfill your service requests for services.
• To protect ourselves from liability,
• To respond to legal process or comply with law, or
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.

Hmmmm... no statement allowing for the selling of my email address to third parties.  Just so happens, I am quite skeptical about any on-line service and so I use Yahoo! disposable email addresses and I create a new one each time I sign up with a new service.  I name these disposable addresses in such a way that I can tell if they are selling my email address when I start getting emails unrelated to the service I signed up for.

What happened next?  I have received nearly 50 spam messages to that specific email address.  Now, in the grand scheme of things, given this was in the span of about 3 months, this isn't much.  However, I do not appreciate being lied to and spammers to me rank right there alongside the common criminal.  Now that I am done with my experiment of watching the spam come in, I have canceled my divshare account and deleted my disposable email address!  Bye-bye you scum of the Earth!

So, if you are a follower of this site, or happen to run across this post in your searching for on-line file sharing/hosting services, maybe I will save you some headaches by not giving www.divshare.com your information.

Regards,
montego

 

As work is nearing completion on the long overdue HTML Newsletter 1.4 version, I felt it would be good to summarize some of the work which has been done.  The 1.4.0 roadmap will show the complete list including upcoming release content (just don't hold me to the dates!), but here are few improvements worth noting:

• All of the module now, both public and admin pieces, are 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant.  In addition, many code changes were made to bring the module code up to more closely follow the latest RavenNuke(tm) coding style and standards which have evolved over the years.
• If you used quotes in your body text or subject line, and then you used the Preview function, you may have noticed that your quotes came back into your text once you backed out of your Preview.  This issue was actually resolved as a part of the above code clean-up work.  No more errant back-slashes messing up your body text!
• Another annoyance (I'm sure) fixed was the ad-hoc email distribution list getting wiped out upon return from the Preview function.
• The Fancy Content template is now truly XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant.
• And more...  see the Roadmap link above.

While I had to move out some nice new features due to time constraints and the desire to get this release into the next RavenNuke(tm) version, this is now a good clean and updated version to build upon.

Regards,
montego