VB/MySQL.com

Coming back to activity

Mike — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:29:13 +0000

Hi All;

Sorry for the low maintenance level on this site, personal matters have limited my available time. I plan to now come back to more active maintenance of this site, beginning with an update to the forums.

The forums now allow for registration without admin approval but have a new requirement that those registering must answer a simple question to submit their registration. This should hopefully allow new members to join without waiting for their approval, while also preventing spam registration.

When I return from the MySQL Conference I’ll be restoring the long-missing samplecode section to the site and restoring the three-parts of the Yatta tutorial.

One of the recent issues wiped out my copies of Yatta that were sent to me by you the readers. If you previously sent me Yatta, please re-send to mike@thisdomain.

Do You Have Yatta?

Mike — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:58:40 +0000

During the site failure the articles and source for the Yatta series was lost, so I thought I would put a call out: do you have a local copy of the articles and source for the Yatta series? If so, please comment here or send me an email!

vbmysqldirect online

Mike — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:25:19 +0000

I didn’t have a chance to restore the full structure to vbmysqldirect’s project pages yet, but I have posted an archive of the project pages to our new Projects page.

See http://www.vbmysql.com/projects/vbmysqldirect/

Mostly Restored

Mike — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:18:12 +0000

Good news everyone! At this point most of the articles are restored. I’ll be finishing the restoration of the last two or three articles soon and moving on to a restoration of the sample code and the project pages (vbmysqldirect in particular).

Thank you for waiting so far, and if you find any errors in the restored articles please let me know.

Help Wanted

Mike — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:24:52 +0000

Hi Folks;

Those of you who have been around for a while will likely know that part 4 of the tutorial had some code that became outdated when VB2005 came out of Beta. I’ve updated the code samples in the article and its zip file but lack the time right now to do a full validation due to work.

As such, I need your help. If someone out there could be so kind as to start at Part One and work through the tutorial using the current release of VB2005 to check for issues it will be much appreciated.

I’ll try to get parts 5-7 up soon and move on to the remaining article content. Then I’ll work on getting samplecode online.

Also, new content is always appreciated. If you have an article or sample you want to submit feel free to let me know and I’ll create a contributor account for you in the CMS.

I’m also looking for someone to manage the Spanish language articles and moderate the new Spanish language topic in the forums.

Thanks!

New Forums

Mike — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:37:39 +0000

I’ve installed forums to http://www.vbmysql.com/forums. Because of the new hosting arrangements and the difficulty in restoring the previous forum software, I’ve changed backends. This means you’ll need to re-register and recreate any posts you were still looking for answers to.

There’s an RSS feed for the forums at http://www.vbmysql.com/forums/rss.php.

Please Provide Feedback

Mike — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:39:59 +0000

Hi All;

I’ve restored two articles so far and would appreciate any feedback as to the appearance/style of the articles posted so far. Since I’m rebuilding site design as I restore articles, now is a good time to voice your opinion.

Site Restore in Progress

Mike — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:12:02 +0000

Due to uncontrollable circumstances, this site is down. Restoration is in progress, please be patient.