It has come to my attention that some debug code was left in WebCards release version 1.2.

This problem applies only to version 1.2. All other versions are unaffected.

This is not a security bug but a major usability problem. The problem results in the contents of your language directory sometimes being printed at the top of each page.

I have updated the main WebCards release package for version 1.2 to address the problem. You can either download the new package and replace the file index.php or follow the instructions below to update your own installation of WebCards. The only file that needs to be replaced is index.php.

To update your WebCards installation

Open up the file index.php in your text editor.

Locate the block of code around line 1473:


while($file = readdir($dp))
{
echo $file;
if($file!="." && $file!=".." && $file!="index.html" && is_dir($conf['dir'] . "lang/" . $file))
{
$lang_style_changer .= "<option value=\"" . $file . "\">" . $file . "</option>";
}
}
$lang_style_changer .= "</select>";


Simply remove this section

echo $file;

Re-upload index.php and the problem will be fixed.

Has WebCards been particularly useful to you? Have you seen an increase in visitors since you installed WebCards? Why not give something back to WebCards?

Why not make a donation to help support the website running costs? I have recently revamped the donation page to make it easier to show your support for WebCards. Every penny you can donate counts.

Do you have a WebCards installation you are particularly proud of? Send the link and I will add it to the WebCards Gallery

I have added a new feature to the next WebCards release: HTML email notifications.

Through the admin centre you can choose to send your notification, reminder and acknowledgment emails in HTML or plain text format.

Many users had been requesting the ability to send HTML emails and making it optional gives you the best of both worlds.

You can test out the new email format over at the WebCards demo version.

Let me know if you have any comments or encounter any errors using HTML emails.

I always had my doubts about how this would turn out after the last few seasons of The Simpsons went so downhill.

The storylines recently have been so poor that I was worried this movie would just be another episode that was a little longer. I am glad to say that I was wrong.

This is a full-blown epic story. None of this could have happened in the TV series and there is even some minor nudity and some jokes that I don’t think they would get away with on the small screen. It has a PG certificate in the UK and they certainly push that to its limit.

I won’t give away everything, but the story is based around Homer becoming the most hated man in Springfield due to doing something terrible. This causes the whole town to be isolated from the rest of the country. Everybody wants Homer dead but the family manage to escape to Alaska where they face a huge test as a family group and it’s a race against time to save Springfield.

A minor drawback was the lack of characters. Many of the inhabitants of Springfield only feature briefly or not at all. Not a huge problem, however, as there are hundreds of characters to feature and there was not enough time to squeeze them all in.

There is a lot of good humour here and some current-affair stuff too. Arnold Schwarzenegger is president of America and the is a parody of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” by Lisa.

I was also impressed by the cinematics. The animation doesn’t differ from TV but there are some excellent pans and swoops that really add to the effect.

I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. It isn’t breathtaking but it also wasn’t just a “longer TV episode” that I had worried it may have become. And “spider pig” is very funny too.

The first thing I have to say about this film was that I was never going to like it. I didn’t really enjoy the book as I didn’t feel there was any real progression to the story and the ending was a little anticlimactic.

My overall impression is that the film needed to slow right down.

The book was very long, but so was The Goblet of Fire and I enjoyed that adaptation. All the important scenes were just crammed in and it felt very choppy. There was no time for any of the scenes to develop and many of the characters were barely in it - I am particularly talking of Bellatrix, Cho and Tonks here.

I was very impressed by Imelda Staunton’s portrayal of Delores Umbridge and the scenes featuring her were excellent. I cannot say the same, however, of Richard Gambon. I always see Dumbledore as a man who is calm at all times but Gambon seems to be portraying him a little erraticley now.

It goes without saying that every scene from an 800-page book wouldn’t make it into a two-and-a-half hour film, but why not make it longer I say? Overall, these films have a great ability to hold my attention for the entire movie, but I did leave the cinema a little disappointed.

Just to let everybody know that the site has been moved to a new webhost. I apologise for any database errors you have been receiving over the last couple of days. These were related to moving over the data.

I was getting tired of the constant downtime and the final straw came when I received this email from the old webhost:

Monitored by two third party companies, ChargerTek’s Uptime has hit it’s 200th Day at 100%

Here’s to going the whole nine yards!

Stats can be seen on the ChargerTek Homepage.

An advantage of the new host is the availability of PHP5. I will be posting details of how PHP5 fits into the WebCards plan in the next week or so.