This weekend Alex was asking me to help him with his site. He plays World of Warcraft MMO now, and also plays the Warcraft RTS game. Edits maps, unit skins, and the unit’s 3d models even. (It’s spooky, really.) So he wanted a forum and downloads area for him and his friends to go with his blog.

And thus the Weasel Boy Forum was born. Note also the new weaselboy.net url has replaced weaselboy.dejardin.org. Have to maintain our web-cred after all. :)

So I looked around a bit for leads and located the Simple Machine Forum (smf) - another LAMP open source application.

It didn’t take long before it was up and running. Well, okay it took hours. But that’s not bad and you know hours fly past like minutes when you’re in the zone. Brenda actually commented on that once - on one of the fairly rare occasions when she was working on something heads-down on the computer she was shocked that whenever she looked up from the machine another two hours had passed.

Just this morning I showed him his new, stock forum and helped him get a Warcraft theme uploaded and activated and he took over. Sounded pretty excited.