First I would like to thank my small team of private beta testers, especially MerlinBrasil, for helping and being patient will all my questions.  Blogg-X 2.0 has taken nearly every moment of my spare time for the last few months, but I think the work has paid off.

Some of you are probably wondering what happened to version 1.0, well I skipped it.  If the Joomla! team can do it so can I!  Just kidding, but with the amount of changes and new features in this version I believed it deserved the new version number.  Nearly everything has been changed both including the mambot.  This version also provides some additional security for site administrator with the requirement to verify username and password for nearly all actions.

Check out the main Blogg-X 2.0 page for all the information on the new release.  All download links can be found there. Here is the CHANGELOG.

The mambot is included in the Blogg-X 2.0 files, but is also available as a separate download.

Please remove any old versions of Blogg-X that you have prior to installing the new version.  It is also recommended that the Blogg-X folder in the "Program Files" directory be completely removed as well.

If you would like to discuss some custom modifications to Blogg-X 2.0 for your website or business please email me at sales at iobinary.com.

Please use the site forums for support, feature requests or general comments.

Lastly I will be providing an update to Blogg-X 2.0 for the impending Joomla! 1.5 release and hope to get it out with the Joomla! release or very soon after.

Enjoy...

chris 

Just thought I would give everyone a little preview of what I have been working on. Click the image for full size. This design is not yet final but most likely wont change too much. The version is mostly working and this post was created using the latest private beta. Enjoy...

chris

Just wanted to let everyone know that things are still going well with the coding for the next version of Blogg-X. I did take a couple nights off from coding because I was starting to go crazy, but have picked things up again and made some great progress. The new version will be a big step forward for Blogg-X.

Thanks...

chris

I have been very actively working on the next version of Blogg-X. I figure I have about 60% of the code complete and still have alot to finish and test. I am still looking for some private beta testers so please email or PM me if interested.

Also, keep the suggestions and feature requests coming.

Thanks...

chris

Please try this new mambot to see if it fixes your problems. I am slightly limited in the testing that I can do with this because all my installations are native english. Hopefully this will help those of you out. Please let me know the results in this thread in the forum. The new mambot can be downloaded here.

Please uninstall the previous version from your server and install the new one. The version should be listed as 0.85 Beta 2.

Thanks...

chris

I am looking for some private beta testers for the future version of Blogg-X. Ideally it would be someone that has a non-production site to test with and has access to phpmyadmin. Also access to some type of VOIP or IM service would be great. Since I develop Blogg-X on my own and in my spare time there wont be any daily builds to deal with but I hope at least one weekly. At this stage I am still working on the GUI design but I commonly become tunnel visioned on a path that may not make the most sense. Having input at an earlier stage will hopefully make things progress faster and provide a better product.

If anyone is interested please email or PM me. I will be creating a private section of the forum for this purpose.

Thanks...

chris