How to make form fields hide and show WITH NO CODING
Alternative Titles: Introducing ixEdit ! / jQuery to the rescue / Amazing new tool brings loads of new features with no coding needed!
Tonight i finally got to record a video to explain my excitement with this new product “ixEdit”.
I’m not a good blogger, I’m especially not good at video blogs – but this has to be seen to be understood and the power to be shown.
I’m about to show you how you can achieve some amazing form effects with NO CODING knowledge at all ! I hope you catch the fire….
Watch the video for the full story:
ixEdit website: http://www.ixedit.com/
(Sorry for the quality – this is my first video post! and not very good after I uploaded to youtube – the original 290Mb file was good quality! 
New version of Joomla Gears Support – Turbo!
I’m pleased to announce a new version of our fantastic plugin for Joomla 1.5 that SPEEDS UP your administrator console experience dramatically! – Dont take our word for it, simply see the reviews here!
This new version adds support for Joomla 1.5.15 – remember to uninstall the old plugin, install this new version, and then click Update gears! – and remember ITS FREE!!!!!
New version of bfForms now available
Hey there, I have just released a maintenance release of bfForms for Joomla 1.5.x – our premier forms extension for Joomla.
This is not a really remarkable update, but does fix some smaller bugs and issues that keep rearing their ugly head – so I squashed them!
Enjoy! and look forward to a new release of Google Gears tonight Speed up your admin console for free with this great product!
Three.co.uk – mobile broadband – email sending issue
Just a note to all three.co.uk users using a mobile broadband dongle and having issues sending emails by SMTP…
The trick is to use THREE’s own SMTP server – but not just the normal one, the one specific to mobile broadband.
So if like me, you had issues sending emails through three, just change your outgoing smtp server to
smtp-mbb.three.co.uk
no authentication required – it just works
Hope this helps some one, as Googling took me ages
Turbo – Google Gears For Joomla 1.5 – Broken
Hi there…
I’m receiving reports that the latest release of Joomla! version 1.5.15, has an issue with the current release of GoogleGears, our free product that DRAMATICALLY speeds up your Joomla Administrator Console…
So at the moment its broken, right now I’m on a train to London with my Daughter, so cannot investigate or fix this until early next week
Thanks for your patience.
ARGH – Main Hard drive corrupt – lost almost everything
Opps…
Today I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu version to the latest, fearing I would be left behind with the new version about to be released. I still dont know what happened but my main data hard drive became corrupt and unrecoverable – only a lost+found folder!!!
So my last full backup was on the 30th June (I know I know, just had more on my mind with moving house, separation etc…)
I have lost all my new PHP code, all my Financial Accounts data (Over twelve months inputting done on monday – all lost!), all my invoices SINCE JUNE! and ALL MY EMAILS SINCE Monday (As I had a backup of my emails on my laptop as I was travelling!)
So please forgive me if I dont email you a reply – I have no idea who or what emails I have lost from my mailbox.
If you dont have a backup – MAKE ONE TODAY!
ironically I dreamed last night about my laptop being stolen and losing all that data – so I backed up the laptop this morning, but not the desktop 
Please excuse the mess around here
Thanks for stopping by, you might notice that I’m slowly rebranding my sites, blog, forms and tools – slowly.
So please excuse the mess, and if something doesnt work or you really hate it then please let me know – the contact button at the top does work – promise – and I do read the emails.
I have almost-unsurmountable personal issues to deal with presently, which have taken a hell of a lot of my time, however maybe from today things will start looking up – a new site template, some new code to write, a new place to live, a new found freedom, and a new business plan to execute. More to come…
But for now, please dont lean up against the wet paint, this is just an undercoat – the gloss is yet to come! Watch this space.
FAQ: Where did the required asterisks go from Forms?
We recently announced the release of bfForms v0.2.169 with a few new features, but one important change that has had quite a knock on effect, and customers have been contacting us
The Change Log in bfForms clearly states:
————— Blue Flame Forms (bfForms) v0.2.169/bfFramework 3.4.0 Released– [02-Aug-2009 22:30 UTC] ———————
+ NEW FEATURE !! – Pausable forms!
+ NEW FEATURE !! – My Forms view+ Allow JOOMLA_USERNAME, JOOMLA_NAME, JOOMLA_EMAIL placeholders
# Fixed referer bugs
# Fixed Horizontal/Vertical checkboxes/radioboxes
- Remove required stars in favour of an upcoming new feature for showing required fields
- IE8 IN-Compatibility with autogrowing text areas – so removed for now.
See, we have removed ALL asterisks from the code, so they dont show by required fields anymore. (Apart from textarea, but that is a mistake )
The next version will introduce a brand new, more friendly, CSS approach to marking required fields.
New version of bfForms released with new features
I have just uploaded a new verison of bfForms with a few new features, the main one being Pausable forms (or “Save and come back later” forms for registered and logged in users). As always I have released it early with sponsorship from a customer, but I have not had time to document all the features I promise I’ll commission this asap.
This release also fixes some long standing niggle bugs that were starting to annoy me, so I fixed a lot of little minute issues that you might not notice unless you found them first (Oh and a couple of biggies)
Hope you like it – another release will be made sooner with some more new feature.
UPDATE: This release also includes the SMTP fix for non standard SMTP ports and SSL
(Forgive the brief blog post – I’m battling some personal family issues and dont have a lot of time right now to expand)
New secure email sending feature in Joomla 1.5.12
A great new feature in Joomla 1.5.12 that allows you to send email over SSL SMTP breaks compatibility with our extensions (If you want to use that feature).
We are aware of the issue and will release new versions that can take advantage of this new feature as soon as we can. For the time being please use the other available mail options that have been available before (PHP Mail, SMTP, SMTP With Auth and Sendmail). The new SMTP over SSL feature will will incorporate for the next versions of our extensions.
More reading: PHPMailer version used in 1.5 does not allow secure connection to SMTP servers
UPDATE 02/Jul/09 6:47pm GMT: The additional code has now been written to support GMail/SSL/TLS connections for bfForms email sending – if you need this update before the official release please email me direct