News as of June 11th, 2009 (Recap)

Posted by: Sam on June 11th, 2009 at 7:31 AM (BST)

Below are some news events occurring from two weeks prior to this date.

1) Stockholm was delinked due to a TOS violation, and the owner (Cybergeek)'s oline was revoked. Cybergeek has chosen to remain a member of the AceIRC chatting community, as well as Datablab.

2) sam and Vass were promoted to Network Administrator about two weeks prior to this posting. So far, they have served AceIRC well, and will hopefully continue to do so in the future. Congratulations, guys.

3) Vass developed a new server linking scheme, and with the assistance of sam, deployed it on all AceIRC servers. We now have central hubs relative to location. For example, Toronto links Michigan (hosts services), Ontario, Illinois (hosts stats), Bracknell, and California. California links Perth. Also, Bracknell links London.

4) sam linked illinois.us.aceirc.org, a VPS out of Chicago, IL, US. This server has been setup to host AceIRC's statistics engine.


Sam Ferry
Network Administrator and Webmaster
Wiki Community Admin
AceIRC

Central Hubs

Posted by: Sam on June 6th, 2009 at 12:13 AM (BST)

We've centralized our IRCd hub links to be a bit more appropriate. New changes are as follows:

California is acting as the overall "hub" for AceIRC.
  - Toronto links to California.
    - Michigan links to Toronto.
      -Services link to Michigan.
    - Ontario links to Toronto.
  - Bracknell links to California.
    - London links to Bracknell.
    - Stockholm links to Bracknell.
  - Illinois (soon) links to California.
    - Stats link to Illinois.

This is just rough, and myself and Vass are working on an improvement for the servers. Illinois was included, as it is currently being provisioned and setup (as of June 5th), and should be linked soon, as well as run stats for AceIRC, and public logs for the Datablab Community. Thanks.


Sam Ferry
Network Administrator and Webmaster
Wiki Community Admin
AceIRC

The AceIRC.org Style Dilemma

Posted by: Sam on May 31st, 2009 at 8:52 AM (BST)

Help me! I'm trying to decide what theme to use on AceIRC.org. It's always been trivial of whether or not to use a CMS, or make a static site, and then how I'd go about styling the site. So, we've used a couple different styles (with our convenient style switching system  ), and I can't decide which to use! So, I've made a poll, and I'll let you decide.

Whichever style is chosen will be our new permanent style (until we redesign). Eventually, I'd like to completely redo the site with a secure, professional content-management system, or redo the entire website with an amazing design. Also, if any of you would like me to switch the theme to the other (from orange to minimalist, or vise-versa), so you may see what the other themes look like, I'd be absolutely happy to oblige, just shoot me a message on AceIRC (in #help, #datablab, or the likes).

Have fun voting!

Also, I think it'd be helpful if I actually liked to the poll (UH DUH SAM). Enjoy: http://forums.aceirc.org/index.php?topic=65.0.


Sam Ferry
Services Administrator and Webmaster
Wiki Community Admin
AceIRC

AceIRC.org's Minimalistic Redesign

Posted by: Sam on May 24th, 2009 at 7:23 PM (BST)

After a bit of working, I got tired of orange! -- Not entirely, but I felt AceIRC.org needed a slight redesign. After the work that was done, we've still decided to use the same layout, but changed the overall design and color scheme of AceIRC.org. I changed some CSS, and whipped up a new banner, and there you have it! And thanks to Aquamin (the PHP Framework Vass made), we have an easy to use theming system, seeing as the orange theme is still there. All I had to do was whip up a few PHP functions, and everything was good to go. If I change the theme flag, the whole site's layout will change, including the logo.

Upon finishing the theme, I decided to entitle it: "Minimalist." I hope you enjoy our new look.

Sam Ferry
Services Administrator and Webmaster
Wiki Community Admin
AceIRC

Wiki Established

Posted by: Sam on May 24th, 2009 at 5:36 PM (BST)

To better assist our users with help and support topics, we've established a wiki to replace the FAQ and Commands sections on AceIRC.org. This wiki will better allow collaboration between AceIRC Staff, and allow for an all-around better experience for our users when browsing help and support topics. The new wiki can be easily accessed at http://aceirc.pbworks.com.

Sam Ferry
Services Administrator and Webmaster
Wiki Community Admin
AceIRC