Events 2.2.4

Small update to comply with the new editor in WordPress 3.3.

Events no longer uses it’s own custom editor but uses the WordPress API for rich text editors. This allows you to use more styling and markup similar to writing posts.

Changelog:
2.2.4 [Dec 18, 2011]
[fix] Rich text editor for adding and editing events

Download:
Version 2.2.4

Get AdRotate back online!

A week later AdRotate is still not available via the WP repositories.

We posted 3 tickets on wordpress.com asking what the status is and also filed complaints in those tickets. All have been ignored so far.
We’ve spend hours searching for a way to contact anyone related to the repositories. No contact information is available.
We’ve tried to contact support people from wordpress.com directly, they have no listed information to contact them outside the ticket system that we could find.
We’ve tried re-registering the plugin in the repositories. The name has been taken (obviously!)

We posted on the overcrowded WordPress forums (here) earlier today in the hopes someone will pick up on it. We have little hope.
We’ve emailed Matt (the main WP guy) directly. His site says he’s busy and replies are slow. We have no hope that he’ll get back to us in time.
We’ve posted on Matts Facebook wall complaining about the sad state of affairs. We expect little of this.

So now we ask you! The user. Should we stir the beast some more? Just sit angry and wait? Could you make some noise? Post on your blogs, your twitter, your Facebook…
Ask for a better support platform, notifications and most importantly to get AdRotate back in the repositories!

This is getting really frustrating. Countless hours we have spent to make this great plugin.
All to be squashed by one guy who can’t find a forum. A guy who isn’t even related to us, to automattic or anything near it.
Don’t let this be the end of AdRotate and make some noise!

Thanks in advance for any efforts!

Late night adventures with professional morons!

So last night Rab Simpson opened a thread on my forum asking me what happened to AdRotate. Where is the plugin page?

A short investigation showed that the plugin had disappeared without a trace and all other pluginpages were intact.

A little while later someone who calls herself SecNews posted a bug report. If there was a fix yet. We worked together and she was the first who received the updated version late last night. Which she was very thankful for even though her server was unaffected :).

Anyway. Me unaware about a SQL exploit followed up on her link and saw the bug report. It’s likely this caused AdRotate to be taken away from the repository.
Noting it’s a similar bug as posted a while ago by the same troll who is not man enough to contact a developer in person i got a bit angry and wrote a “not-so-nice,-i’m-angry” email. And the following spur of rude unprofessionalism followed.

It’s so pathetic that i couldn’t stay angry for much longer. However, AdRotate is still not available via the official channels which is very very fucking annoying. All because some dumb-ass won’t email me and just acts without thinking.

Anyway, read the spur of emails we exchanged in rapid succession. The oldest email is at the bottom so basically they’re all in reversed chronological order. I left it like this because otherwise it would look doctored… This is the unedited cope/paste of my email history. And credit where credit is due… So i left in his full name, website address and Email for your enjoyment.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Arnan de Gans | Telltales Forum wrote:
well let me spell it out for you:

1. http://telltal.es/
2. http://telltal.es/projects/
3. http://meandmymac.net/contact-and-support/

Number 1 and 2 are clearly listed on www.adrotateplugin.com and if you go through the plugin repository you can easily find number 3.

I don’t see the difficulty in getting in touch. Especially for things like this.

Anyway, i told you this last time. Clearly you can’t read or think before you act. So lets not waste each others time.

I have a bug (typo) to fix and you can shut the fuck up.

Regards,

Arnan de Gans

arnan@telltal.es
www.telltal.es

On 15 nov. 2011, at 22:41, Miroslav Stampar wrote:
Well, as I am an idiot I can only say that I hope that the last laugh will be yours.

Also, don’t blame me for more of “Wtf guys! What did i do this time!” as there will be more.

From my own experience people like you that are not brave enough to put any kind of contact information are pricks. I’ve tried to contact you in two separate occasions but you obviously don’t know how to type your fucking email address at your shitty “myshittyemacandprickmyself.com”

Kind regards

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Arnan de Gans | Telltales Forum wrote:
Except there is no premium version… can’t even get that right :)
Also, this whole thing… Not very professional from your side. Whereas you claim to be professional on your website.

Anyway, next time use the forum or bugtracker… They’re there for a reason.

*laughs*

Regards,

Arnan de Gans

arnan@telltal.es
www.telltal.es

On 15 nov. 2011, at 22:29, Miroslav Stampar wrote:

i’ll report each and every vulnerability i found in AdRotate and you’ll regret for this for this. i hope you’ll see it in number of bought licenses for your “premium” version.

kind regards from “idiot”

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Arnan de Gans | Telltales wrote:
Ah yes… that again.

Too dumb to find my forum, bug tracker or contact page…

Regards,

Arnan de Gans

arnan@telltal.es
www.telltal.es

On 15 nov. 2011, at 22:19, Miroslav Stampar wrote:

you fucking idiot don’t know how to use wpdb->prepare

you should put:
$wpdb->prepare(“SELECT `link` FROM `”.$prefix.”adrotate` WHERE `id` = ‘%s’ LIMIT 1;”, $ad)

instead of:
$wpdb->prepare(“SELECT `link` FROM `”.$prefix.”adrotate` WHERE `id` = ‘”.$ad.”‘ LIMIT 1;”)

you mother fucker!

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Miroslav Stampar wrote:
sorry, i’ve almost forgot, fuck you too idiot!

kind regards

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Miroslav Stampar wrote:
Are you some kind of a shitface?

I’ve tried to contact you but you dipshit don’t have anywhere a contact form.

Kind regards

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Arnan de Gans | Telltales wrote:
Will you stop reporting my plugin and just contact me directly if you find a bug?

Now the plugin is AGAIN removed from the repositories… Idiot!
Stop screwing around, last time your *hack* didn’t even work. And now you come with this same shit again?

Regards,

Arnan de Gans

arnan@telltal.es
www.telltal.es


Miroslav Stampar

http://about.me/stamparm

And somewhere in between this uncanned rage came a personal threat, i guess it’s an e-threat…

for the record you mother fucker

http://secunia.com/advisories/46814/

and Secunia don’t post UNCONFIRMED vulnerabilities!

i would rather kick you in your big mouth and break your legs

fuck you and kind regards

Obviously such deranged idiots who call themselves professionals can’t be taken serious. Even though his bug report was real… Still, if this is professional; I must be a “elite-masterchief-epic-win-guy”. And even i can be an ass. As my initial email suggests, and even that wasn’t so bad i think.

Oh well, let’s just hope AdRotate is back soon!

Meanwhile, the bug was fixed very soon after the first report. The thread was extremely low. And the WordPress peoples are dicks for taking the plugin offline without telling me. Also they’re dicks for not offering any way to contact them in cases like this. Yes i’m angry with you still!

But at the end of the day… I play Skyrim! And Skyrim… Makes it all good.