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The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

EE 1.5 released

EE 1.5 is out and it’s a big change. THere’s a simple commerce module (included for free), which would theoretically allow me to sell anything in a storefront or if I wanted on a per blog entry basis. Interesting, but I don’t have a use for it yet since my KOrean Podcast project seems to have petered out. Anyhow I’m very excited about this new version and will update, though that’s not a priority right now as I’m still not actively blogging. The change log and official announcement are copied in the extended entry.

Expression Engine Wrote:
We are pleased to introduce ExpressionEngine 1.5, the Simple Commerce module, the Discussion Forums module 1.3.1, and the Wiki module 1.1.

ExpressionEngine 1.5 is a major release bringing integrated commerce to ExpressionEngine along with an additional 70 features and enhancements.

Protected RSS feeds, a Bulletin Board for the Private Messaging system, and a flexible Member Import Utility are just a few of the powerful new features included with ExpressionEngine 1.5.

The Simple Commerce Module fully integrates the purchasing power of PayPal into your existing ExpressionEngine site with this easy to use, flexible solution.

Customizable email notifications for each product, member group assignment upon purchase, built in encryption, and automated purchase tracking through PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification service give you the power you need to run your own store.

The Simple Commerce Module is included free with ExpressionEngine Personal and Commercial licenses.

The Discussion Forum Module adds user-side theme switching along with a host of minor enhancements. The Forums Module offers two professionally designed forum themes, and a barebones developer theme to help you create your own forum themes.

The Wiki Module now features Namespaces, which allow you to better organize and manage content on your wiki.

For a full list of the new ExpressionEngine 1.5 features and enhancements please read the change log.

For a full list of the new Discussion Forum 1.3.1 features and enhancements please read the change log.

Releases can be obtained from the Download Area.

Changelog
Release Date: August 31, 2006

Added a Simple Commerce Module.

Added a new, powerful Template Preference Manager where you can update preferences and member access permissions for multiple template simultaneously.

Added HTTP Authentication option to Template Access page. Enabling this feature has some security considerations. Please consult the documentation before using this feature.

Added a Bulletin Board to the Private Messaging system and a CP Homepage option to display recent bulletins

Added a Member Import Utility that imports members from a special XML format, as well as assists in creating an XML file from a delimited text file.

Added Reverse Relationship ability to Weblog Entries tag

Added Multiple Category Group support for Weblogs

Added Namespaces support to the Wiki module and the ability to embed articles within other articles.

Added a Login as Member option under the Member Administration menu for a member. Usable by Super Admins only.

Added ability for members to delete their own accounts (and all associated content).

Added ability to export a template as an editable file from its Edit Template screen.

Added new email notification and templates for when a Private Message InBox is full

Added the ability to Private Message a user from their public profile. Requires the updating of themes. Please review the Version 1.5 notes for details.

Added File Properties, File Pre Formatting, and File Post Formatting to the Upload Directory preferences

Added a new Template Type: XML. Outputs the page with XML HTTP headers.

Added the ability to use {related_entries} and {reverse_related_entries} tag pairs to the Search Module’s search results tag. Usage is identical to the Weblog module.

Added a Text Direction option for Text and Textarea Custom Fields to make EE more compatible with Right to Left languages

Added ability to resend Activation Emails, if used on your site, to Pending members when viewing that group in the View Members area of the CP

Added ability for extensions to have their own built in settings form function, settings_form(), as well as their own built in settings saving function, save_settings().

Added a Default Entry Title and a URL Title Prefix preference to the Publish Page Customization screen for Weblog Management.

Added Instructions option for Custom Weblog Fields so that Admins can describe how to fill out a custom field to their author’s on entry submission pages

Added ability to empty the cached Relationship Entries (Utilities -> Clear Cached Data) and then have the Weblog Module recreate the cached entries when requested

Added a Template Parser Debugging log that one can turn on in Admin -> Output and Debugging Preferences. Also, spiffed up the display of the SQL Queries when outputted.

Added button to Alphabetize Group Order when modifying the template group order

Added new template variables for some standard date formatting strings. Please see the User Guide for details on using these new variables.

Added ability for nested category folder creation in the Image Gallery when creating a new category, allowing more organization of images on the server.

Added an ‘Exact Match’ checkbox to the CP Homepage’s Member Search

Added the ability to specify a custom field group, status group, and category group when creating a new weblog

Added a direct link to view the members of a particular group from the Member Groups area of the CP.

Added a Group Description to Member Groups

Added category_group="” parameter to Weblog Entries tag

Added category_group="” parameter to Weblog Categories tag

Added show_group="” parameter to the Weblog Entries tag’s {category} variable pair.

Added Inclusive Category support to the category="” tag.

Added ability to specify multiple orders in the orderby="” parameter and corresponding supports in the sort="” parameter for the Weblog Entries tag

Added require_entry="yes” parameter to tag.

Added Sean. variable to Comment Entries tag

Added {entry_id_path=""} variable to Category Archive tag

Added new extension hooks: form_declaration_modify_data, form_declaration_return, cp_display_page_navigation, weblog_entries_tagdata_end

Added two new variables for Gallery Entries and Gallery Comments: {count} and {total_results}

Added a flag to the Spellcheck feature to ensure that the necessary abilities are available. If not, no Spellcheck link will be shown to user.

Added a new core class, EE_XMLParser, to aid in handling and creating XML data

Added a new configuration option, $conf[’include_seconds’], that when set to “y” seconds are included on human-readable dates in the Control Panel forms

Added Member Searching to the Member List part of the member area

Added DST setting to Moblog module and Metaweblog API entries based on the site’s current daylight savings setting

Added security option in Control Panel Session and Security Preferences: XSS filter images

Added various audio MIME types to the default allowed file types for File Uploading

Added an indicator to the Template manager to indicate the Template Group for the default index page of the site

Added an alert message to the Spellcheck when it is not functioning

Added more detailed Breadcrumb navigation to the Admin section of the Control Panel

Added error checking for reserved words in weblog custom fields and member custom profile fields.

Added an alternate syntax for global variables (prefix standard member globals with “logged_in") that is suitable to use in conditionals inside the Weblog Entries tag or other tags that process member information.

Updated the Weblog Module’s Categories and Category Archive tags so that if the show_empty="no" parameter is set, then entries that are closed or expired are now excluded (for you Kurt).

Updated the Weblog Module to allow conditionals for all categories in all tags

Updated the Stats Module to allow conditionals for its standard variables

Updated the Typography class to have popup links using window.open instead of target="_blank". Popup links are now disabled by default.

Updated the automatic url_title creation function for externally create entries (Moblog, APIs, Import Utilities) so that accented characters will be converted to their non-accented counter parts.

Updated the word wrap function in the email library so that the newline character specified in the class is used.

Updated the Image Gallery’s view entries page to allow the selecting of more than one entry at once with new options like opening and closing along with deleting of entries.

Updated the Moblog Module so that Admin notification emails are now sent when a new weblog entry is posted

Modified the weblog category="” parameter so when excluding categories, entries without categories assigned will not be shown. Added new parameter uncategorized_entries="” to disable this.

Modified the View Entry page in the Edit section of the Control Panel to order custom field by field order, consistent with other areas of the control panel.

Modified Private Message Send and Storage limits to be Member Group preferences instead of global settings.

Modified the Search Module so that searches with no results are stored so that the can be used on the template specified in the no_result_page="” parameter

Modified the Multi-Entry Edit ability so that if you have done a search, then after editing your entries you are returned to that search.

Modified Private Message and Discussion Forum file attachments to use a hashed URL so file attachments have URLs that are difficult (nigh impossible) to guess.

Modified the Image Gallery and Image Resizing Preferences to allow a hyphen/dash as a separator character along with the underscore.

Modified the install file so that it puts in a full server path for the captcha directory

Modified various database fields to accept more data, specifically those related to email caching and template storage.

Modified the Localization of dates so that templates with the type RSS Page use English only, which is the standard.

Modified path.php global variable sanitization for increased security.

Modified the incoming Trackback code to have better character encoding handling

Modified the Template loop prevention code to be more intelligent and allow multiple embeds of the same template in a page

Modifed the {wiki:files} function to accept orderby="” and sort="” parameters, and modified the wiki themes to show the 10 most recent file uploads properly on Edit Article pages.

Modified Install Wizard so that by default error reporting is only visible to logged in SuperAdmins for new sites.

Modified the {embed=""} tag to allow the use of other variables as embed variables: {embed="site/embed" foo="http://wiki.eflgeek.com/index.php/any/thing/"}

Modified the http://wiki.eflgeek.com/index.php?css= variable to allow use of quotes, making it more consistent with http://wiki.eflgeek.com/index.php/ variable parsing.