Its been a while since I did a ‘review/plug’ of a fellow blogger, this time its the turn of Josh Buckley.
I recently starting reading Josh’s blog after Jon Wheatley mentioned him on his video blog a few times.
So who is Josh Buckley? He is a 15 year old, internet entrepreneur from England, UK. He has been interviewed many times, just recently he was interviewed by retire@21, the interview can be found here. To find out more about him visit his blogs about page.
Just 2 days ago Josh set out to have his redesigned blog up within 24 hours and I can happily say he managed it and it looks superb. Its a vast improvement on the last design and just makes the blog so much nicer to read.
I haven’t really spoken to Josh, apart from a few quick emails back and fourth after commenting on his blog for the first time. He even managed to call me James in one of them. However if you need someone to look up too then Josh is the guy, his blog is a good read too!
Visit Josh’s Blog.
Last year I went to the Internet World exhibition in London, and while I was there I found a neat little site that was launched at the show. The site allowed you to download a toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer then you were able to bookmark sites using the toolbar using ‘Jumptags‘.
This toolbar allows you to search your tags, so if you typed in forum you would get all the sites that you tagged with the word forum, you can then click on the site you wish to visit and it would take your browser to the site. I then stopped using the toolbar after upgrading my iMac and Macbook.
Just yesterday I received an email letting me know about a new feature of the site, it allows you to add a tag cloud of your Jumptags to your website. I have created a new Jumptags account, and have added this tag cloud to my sidebar. I will be adding more Jumptags as I find sites that I like. I think this is a pretty neat feature, it allows any visitors to my blog to see sites that I am interested in and that they may also be interested in.
For more information about Jumptags go and read their blog, more importantly read this for an understanding of why Jumptags is beyond social bookmarking.
To try Jumptags for your self go and visit their site and sign up.
As my CMS of choice is e107 and I am happy to announce that v0.7.11 was released yesterday. This release will most likely be the last release of the 0.7 branch. Its is a bugfix release like the past few releases. Unless a security issue, large bug or anything else crops up that requires attention this will be the last 0.7 release.
The e107 development team are now going to focus on 0.8. Instead of working on both the 0.7 and 0.8 branch’s, they can focus on the one and devote there efforts solely on 0.8. Currently there is no idea when 0.8 will be out, i’d take a guess at a few months till see see it been released.
In the mean time you can of course grab a copy of the CVS files. My CVS updates will resume soon when I am back in Birmingham.
You can read the developers roadmaps here.
If you running e107 and want to update or want to try e107 for the first time go here.