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So you're also 14?

Welcome to SimpleDesk, GeekMaster!

@DrHouse, there will be a tool available so you can quickly manage translations from here. Or you could do it like any other mod and edit the files manually and posts them in a board (Which will be set up once we're closer to a release).

Heh, thanks. It kinda fits me - I always walk around the house with my wireless headset. Often I forget they are even there.

Nas's is actually pretty cute. XD

I really misread that at first. "Nas is actually pretty cute".

The original one I wrote was based on when the project version started and when it was scheduled for release, then counted how many days in between and then calculated the percentage.

Using PHP's GD module, you can create images, and this is what we used.

The second revision was coded up by Nas and Arantor. This is the final one which takes into account bugs resolved/unresolved.

Attached is the version I drew up.

Not fully the one you made. I made some changes to that one as well before the latest one was created.

Psst, yer not supposed to give away the anticipated 1.0 release date

Remind me to not post things when I'm tired and inebriated

Fixed.

Fixed what? The date is still there

Not the real date.

So does some beta testers, our marketing guy and one of our project supporters (The other one's got a duck, which apparently ate his cat. ).
A random idea that started out when JBlaze and SleePy started to use cat avatars. I followed, and it kept going.

Nah, we're just nerdy. It's our hobby to do such stuff.

The captcha has been changed to "Medium" level. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Welcome!
When SimpleDesk development has move forward more, you will be able to join as a translator and get access to a tool to submit your translations.

Thanks, Sabre!

Arantor: Yeah, London really is a place I want to go to at some point. My sis and I even had a little idea of going there together when I finish school, to study. A few year left though, and it'll also take a while before I have enough money to go there (And courage to fly. That really is something I never wanted to do. Forgot to mention that in my post )

Simple Desk meetup 2010!

2010? I wouldn't think so, unless you can convince my school to let me quit 1,5 years early and then convince my parents to let me go to London alone.

I meet-up at some point would be nice, though.

As I mentioned shortly in my post, it'd be cool to start some sort of tech company. 
Not sure how much is in it here on this lil' island, though.

[Nas]

So, you've been lurking around this site, perhaps made a few nice post. You've read about the features in this coming mod, had a sneak peak on the software and admired our progress bar.
Like Arantor mentioned in his topic, we're going to post a few topics for you to get to know us. So, here's mine. Time to get to know the youngster.

Some may have read my Get to know topic over at www.simplemachines.org, but like Arantor I felt like writing a full text instead of a short interview style topic.
I'm Marcus "Nas" Forsberg, 14 years old (October 24th '95). I was born in Sweden, but my mother and her family always used to go to Åland Islands, and so did my dad when they met each other.
So, when I was only 8 months old I visited Åland Islands (Which, by the way, is a group of big and small islands in the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Finland) for the first time.
We then kept going there very often for the next few years, until August 2007 when we left Sweden and moved into our summer house in Lemland, Åland.
It was quite small so it was annoying at times, but my dad and a builder he hired built us a nice house, which was finished last year, were we now live.

I originally started to use computers for real around 2005 - 2006, and started to read up on HTML in 2006.
It was confusing in the beginning, but I learned quickly and soon I could do quite nice CSS and HTML layouts.
In spring 2008, after we moved, I was hanging around a fansite for a game I was playing at the time. The site however was closed down due to the owner not having enough time.
Some members asked me to create a new one, but I had no idea on how such stuff worked.
I began doing some research, finding and testing several sites offering phpBB hosting, but I was far from happy.
Eventually I found this good looking thing called SMF, and decided to try it out. After finally getting it set up, remember I had no idea how stuff like that works, I was in love.

While driving the support team at SMF mad with my questions, I started to do small hacks and mod installations to SMF code. That's how I began learning PHP.
I made a few mods, with lotsa errors, and now I was driving the customization team mad too. I'm lovely, eh?
Eventually I started to get the hang of it, and I also started to help out in the support boards, which was why I was invited to the SMF support team in November 2008.
I accepted, and after an one month apprenticeship I joined the full team at December 4.
As I grew and learned more, I eventually started to create some themes, and in April 2009 I made the transfer to the Customization team.
After a few months I "switched" to the modification section instead, which is where I am now.
So, that proves you can be a complete newbie but still learn and grow and eventually get involved in something as big as SimpleDesk.

December 31 2009, more than a year after I joined the SMF team, I and a few other team members were talking in the SMF team channel on IRC.
I kinda pulled the trigger there, when I expressed my interest in doing a team mod both to inspire hopeful modders out there and improve my knowledge.
Arantor and JBlaze joined in, suggesting a helpdesk, and we were set - SimpleDesk had been born.

The project is going great so far, and I'm really enjoying this.
My role is as a Developer, and I'm focusing mainly on the user interface and layout of SimpleDesk, but I do of course code other stuff as well.
I'm looking forward to the release, even to the support requests which will roll in.

Besides my obvious web development hobby, I also like to play around in Photoshop. I'm still learning but it's great fun.
You might eventually see some of my Photoshop work - Maybe even around here.

So what's for the future?
Well, I'm currently going to school, with about one and a half year left. After that I'm going to go to a school for communication and media, with a special programming class.
That'll be three years, and after that I plan to do further studies back in Sweden, and then perhaps start some sort of business here in the little community of Åland.
My big dream is to one day visit London, and perhaps even study a bit more there.
I'm really looking forward to the end of my current base-studies. The only interesting things happening there is the English classes, Swedish classes and computer science classes, which is my best subjects. I'm kinda on top of my class there.
Though, computer science - Well, not much learning there. We're going through the basics of HTML, which, as you know, I already know by heart. My teacher is even using the wrong method - Deprecated tags, nasty styles...
She told me we're not going to reach anywhere close to my level in our classes. Oh well, if anything it'll increase my average grade.

I'm done talking - Eh, writing, for now. Now that you've had a little read about me, I'm looking forward to the future events here on SimpleDesk as well as SimpleMachines.
If you feel like it, do ask questions about me if you have any. I'm open ears.
Also do keep your eyes open for more of these topics, as well as other blog posts in the coming days and weeks.

Nas

Yep, I'm 14. The youngest SD team member, and the youngest SMF team member (AFAIK). Not the youngest member on sm.org, though.

If anyone's interested, I have no problem sharing the code. JBlaze and Arantor will have to agree though since they both did a fair amount of work (JB did the actual base which I then used for the current version).

I'm still the youngest here