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2021-12-22 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:31:03 + (UTC) D Blakeley wrote: > Hey guys, > As some of you know I'm not programmer so anything I say about this should be > taken with a grain of salt lol. However today I noticed some panic in the fan > game community regarding fan games made with Java due to a 'Jav

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2021-12-22 Thread Stian Grenborgen
> [...] 'Java Log4j exploit' [...] No worries, we are not using Log4j :-) Best wishes, Stian Grenborgen ___ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers

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2021-12-22 Thread D Blakeley via Freecol-developers
Hey guys, As some of you know I'm not programmer so anything I say about this should be taken with a grain of salt lol. However today I noticed some panic in the fan game community regarding fan games made with Java due to a 'Java Log4j exploit' recently discovered and doing the media rounds. Th

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2020-04-27 Thread Michael Berger
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2014-12-29 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I will be honest html5 isnt as bad as it used to be that someone who doesnt know any web coding can easily pick it up. On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 07:33:35PM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 10:44:28 -0800 > > Bryce Harr

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2014-12-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 07:33:35PM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 10:44:28 -0800 > Bryce Harrington wrote: > > WordPress is awesome, but isn't it a bit overkill for what freecol.org > > needs? There aren't that many pages, and they aren't updated that > > frequently... > > T

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2014-12-29 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 10:44:28 -0800 Bryce Harrington wrote: > WordPress is awesome, but isn't it a bit overkill for what freecol.org > needs? There aren't that many pages, and they aren't updated that > frequently... That is my thought, although there is some truth to the idea that if it were les

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2014-12-28 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
As mentioned in the other thread. A github repository for the website plus simple html5 and css3 would be more then enough, but we should also target mobile devices as well as people might use them to file bugs or look up things. If you guys agree and someone sets up the repository on github or whe

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2014-12-28 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I think though we are going to end up going in a vicious circle here. All CMS's available have their good and their bad. On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Caleb Williams wrote: > I for one, am in favor of having at least some type of simple backend > available to site admins to make quick and sim

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2014-12-28 Thread Caleb Williams
I for one, am in favor of having at least some type of simple backend available to site admins to make quick and simple changes (such as adding or editing news, adding release information) in such a way that doesn't require coding. While we currently have several interested parties with HTML/CSS kn

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2014-12-28 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I think here some html5 css3 would be more then enough, but I think its also essential to make the site responsive. On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:19:03PM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:23 +0100 > > Jonathan Aqui

Re: [Freecol-developers] (no subject)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:19:03PM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:23 +0100 > Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Wordpress is super easy to update > > Yes, good. I salute your enthusiasm but please understand my caution. I > just looked it up, and wordpress has 740(!) CVEs i

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2014-12-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:19:03PM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:23 +0100 > Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Wordpress is super easy to update > > Yes, good. I salute your enthusiasm but please understand my caution. I > just looked it up, and wordpress has 740(!) CVEs i

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2014-12-23 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Wordpress as of v4 has a self update feature which is very nice. I am quite versed and still learning lots of new things about web design. I can code something from scratch where it can be a bit more dynamic and take advantage of a responsive design so it can be viewed on mobiles and tablets too

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2014-12-23 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:23 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Wordpress is super easy to update Yes, good. I salute your enthusiasm but please understand my caution. I just looked it up, and wordpress has 740(!) CVEs issued since 2003. I knew it was going to be bad, but that is abysmal. To ma

Re: [Freecol-developers] (no subject)

2014-12-22 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Wordpress is super easy to update On 22 Dec 2014 22:10, "Michael T. Pope" wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:53:39 +0100 > Stian Grenborgen wrote: > > I have converted the entire site into a static version. Dynamic content > > (such as operating system detection, polls etc) have been removed. > > T

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2014-12-22 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:53:39 +0100 Stian Grenborgen wrote: > I have converted the entire site into a static version. Dynamic content > (such as operating system detection, polls etc) have been removed. Thank you. I think that was needed. > New content can only be added manually. Adding a new

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2014-12-21 Thread Caleb Williams
Nice work. It's a shame that this happened, but I'm glad were're up and running with something now though. Hopefully 0.11.2 will come along shortly as I think there have been a number of changes that benefit end users nicely. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Stian Grenborgen < stian...@student.ma

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2014-12-21 Thread Stian Grenborgen
On 2014-12-17 06:15, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Hey Stian is it possible to get a copy of the place holder please? It's just a plain HTML page (just like the static site now on freecol.org). You can download it, and all images and CSS, by using "wget". Best wishes, Stian -

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2014-12-21 Thread Stian Grenborgen
On 2014-12-16 23:05, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:25:37 +0100 > Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >> I can put together a quick place holder page if you like. > > At the top of the thread Stian said that there is a place holder there > already. I would like to see other parts of the st

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2014-12-16 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Hey Stian is it possible to get a copy of the place holder please? On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Michael T. Pope wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:25:37 +0100 > Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > I can put together a quick place holder page if you like. > > At the top of the thread Stian said that

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2014-12-16 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:25:37 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I can put together a quick place holder page if you like. At the top of the thread Stian said that there is a place holder there already. I would like to see other parts of the static content restored soon, in particular the stuff tha

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2014-12-16 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I can put together a quick place holder page if you like. it wont be pretty but it woudl be better than nothing. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Michael T. Pope wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:29:26 +0100 > Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >[Much discussion about webpage redesign] > > I think this

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2014-12-16 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:29:26 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >[Much discussion about webpage redesign] I think this is getting a little ahead of events. I am delighted that people are interested in helping with a nice new web page, but right now it would be good to quickly recover a simple static

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2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
2nd point you dont need anything special simple hyper links to where the software is will work in terms of downloads. Point 4 im sure there is something that is floating around on the internet that can be reused and adapted for our needs. Or for the news we could use something like wordpress and ma

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2014-12-15 Thread Caleb Williams
Sorry Jonathan, I didn't mean to imply that you'd be contributing money, but rather time and expertise. The same with you Jonas. In my case, for better or worse, all the PHP coding I've ever done is to create websites that don't rely on a backend, but can only be changed through coding, so I perso

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2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I would not be asking for money to do it, i would do it to hone my skills in web design as well as the ability to give back to the community. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Caleb Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:02:48 -0600 > Caleb Williams wrote: > > > Out of the frying pan and int

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2014-12-14 Thread Caleb Williams
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:02:48 -0600 Caleb Williams wrote: > > Out of the frying pan and into the fire? > > That really depends on getting the theme right. Sorry for being obtuse. I am involved in computer security professionally. Both Joomla and Wordpress have very poor reputations in that field