Posted By Andy Frogman on March 10, 2010 | Comments: none

I’ve not really wanted to make a post here for a while. As well as being busy I’ve wanted to make sure people saw the post below. However time stops for no man, and he who stands still will one day discover that the time he thought he had has long since gone away. Enough with the philophical stuff though, no need to waste more time!

The Forum is kinda up to date.As I posted a few weeks ago now, there was an issue with UJ:F. There were problems with the template files and issues were simply building and building. Everytime one thing was fixed by Dicky or myself then another thing would break. Until eventually I decided I’d had enough and went back to basic. Dicky tells me I didn’t have to, but I was tired with chasing problems and there was no guarentee that it was going to end any time soon. So I reuploaded all the files for the basic themes, and got to work re themeing ProSilver this tiem instead of Subsilver2, and aside from some niggling issues of things I would like to see on the new theme, it’s all up to date.

Except once again, just as I finished the skin changes there was another update, and this one is primerally a theme and template update from what I can tell, and I am not int he mood to mess around with it, so I’ve left it at that.

This also solidifide my ideas about the next step in UJ Evolution. For now it’s not anything that I will be discussing on the homepage, as I am scarilly paranoid, but from my own research it’s soemthing that hasn’t been done before, or at least for this purpose and with the intentions that we have for it, it has never been done before. There are places where this new system is talked about on the forum, and for those who read the comic and haven’t signed up to the forums, I urge you to do so, because we want to know exactly what you want to see go into this new system. All the little things that have maybe annoyed you about the current system, or something that has changed that you trhink was beter the way it was before. Whatever the issues, if you are a UJ reader then we want your input!

Once againthe comic is a little late… I say a little, it’s currently a week and a day late, nearing two days. I can’t really say that this is going to change much in the near future, so I am officially announcing that the updates of UJ:History cannot be relied upon, to be weekly or fortnightly, instead it will be uopdated when it can be. I know this doesn’t seem to bode well for our faster update schedule that I have talked about in the past but there has been a fix for this that we have been discussing this past week in the team and it looks like it’s going to work and greatly help the process. Once again, I’m not going to give many details on this, this time not out of paranoia, but because this does affect certain storylines and comics that are to appear in future, and I don’t want to spoil anything.

Please don’t give up on us, we’re trying our best at the moment and we are pulling together, and there will be more content in the future.

Thanks everyone!

Category: Andy's Updates, Forum Update, Technical Updates
Tags: 2010, Andy, comic, Comics, creative, Evans, forum, Frogman, history, omni, scripting, skin, story writing, system, template, theme, update, updates

Posted By Andy Frogman on February 24, 2010 | Comments: none

One day we will remember to make the front page update at the same time as the comic update. Even if it means I need to start tazering some people.

Sorry for the delay on this latest page, again, since January there has been a log string of undesirable events, it started rather annoyingly with the forum starting to go crazy, and has rolled on continuously until most trecently tragedy has hit with the sudden death of two good friends of ours, personally and as a community. As Emily says in her post, she is amazed the page is even finished, since hearing of the recent events, we have both been rather lost, about what to say or do.

We will be attending the funeral this week, as their friends and representing the community that they have been a part of for so long. If you wish to leave any further kind words for the family I ask that you post them on the forums or here ASAP, so that I might be able to take it to the funeral with me.

From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you all for your messages and support during this time. We appreciate it and I am sure the families do to.

As what little tribute we can offer right now, we have dedicated the current page of UJ: History to Andrew and Jake, and plan to do an artwork in the near future for them, and even include their characters in the comic at some point.

The changes continue.

Recently Wordpress has put out a new version of it’s system, that didn’t like the older comicpress and it required me to update the comicpress to the latest version, which in turn is in compatable with the style I created for the comic pages. So less than 2 weeks after I had “Completed” the style for the site and comic pages and forum, this happens. Which is fine to an extent seeing as the forum went nuts shortly after. This new site style is being worked on as we speak here at a new Universe 2 page.

That was of course until a new, new wordpress came out. Now I have no idea what will happen with this new, new wordpress update and to be honnest I’m not even going to bother trying. This has pushed forward to the front of the pack the programming of what has been dubbed Ultima-Java: Omni.

The omni site will be an intergrated homepage, forum, and multiple comic hosting administration site all in one, built by us at Ultima-Java, for us at Ultima-Java and it means that we get the features we need when we need them. It also means that unlike in the past, if we are to release a new comic in the future, say for example, The Deviants. Then instead of having to build and install another site which would require a whole new set of log in and registration by users, it’ll all be run from a single controle panel. Any updates that need to be made will be made and propagated automatically throughout all the sites, adding a new comic page will be as easy as hitting a button and adding administrators, there will be intergrated chat, and for all you out there who want to post on the comics comments page, then you will only have to use your forum login, and it’s done.

We have a theroy that might allow us to also transfer all the data from the current UJ forums over to the new forums when Omni is complete.

I really believe that leaving the standard programs behind and focusing on Omni is the way forward, for starters we will be working through our own built system, so reguardless of the updates that get made, styles and systems will never become incompatable, and will give me more time to work on multiple styles, that you users might choose what you want Omni to look like.

For those of you who are reading this and are unsure, don’t worry, we know what we are doing and we promise this will be an important step forward. Also be aware that although we are announcing Omni now, it may not be available for another year or so. So we are willing to hear your questions and issues, and hopfully dispell all yourfears as well as listen to suggestions for possible features.

Finally when I say UJ is for the fans by the fans, I can say it genuinly, rather than waiting for mods and development by others, we can actually work to incorperate your ideas directly into the site!

There will be more on this as development continues here and on the forums.

Category: Andy's Updates, Event Updates, Forum Update, Technical Updates, Ultima-Java History, Ultimasoft Update
Tags: 2, administartion, andrew spence, announcement, artwork, bailey, change, chat, comic, comicpress, dedication, desktop, download, events, features, forum, funeral, history, homepage, hosting, inergrated, jake, Java, memorial, omni, phpBB3, representing, steam, support, Thanks, tribute, ujvians, Ultima, universe, update, wordpress

Posted By Andy Frogman on February 18, 2010 | Comments: 1

Today I came to the forums to find an announcement, containing news that two of our members, Andrew Spence AKA, Mengil Manflayer, and Jake Bailey AKA: Solus, died yesterday in a car accident, with a third Nathan Palmer AKA: Gryiffin in a bad condition in hospital.

The Courier Mail reported by Kristin Shorten:

TWO teenagers have been killed in a horrific head-on collision on the Sunshine Coast.

A 18-year-old boy was dead at the scene while firefighters had to cut another 18-year-old boy from the wreckage after the crash on Cooroy Noosa Rd at Tinbeerwah about 3.50pm. Both were from Tewantin.

The second boy was transported to Nambour General Hospital with serious head and limb injuries but died a short time later.

A third 18-year-old and 60-year-old with were also taken to hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries.

The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating and police are appealing for witnesses, including the driver of a silver van who may have witnessed the crash.

I don’t know what to say, but our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to them and their families now in this, a most difficult time. There are people on our forums now who are closer to the situation than myself and we’ll be attempting to keep up to date on the condition of Gryffin.

One thing I know is they will NEVER be forgotten.

Once a UJavian, always a UJvian!

Category: Andy's Updates
Tags: accident, car, crash, dead, Gryffin, hospital, lost, Manflayer, Mengil, solus

Posted By QueenQeeko on February 9, 2010 | Comments: none

So in the span of the last week’s time, myself, SAAM, Rhu and Gryffin have all had birthdays! And I know that there are more coming; seems to be a lot of birthdays in February…

Also, yesterday A Deviant Cause updated with page #27. Click on the preview above to check it out! UJ was late by a week due to some issues I’ve been having at work. It seems to be all cleared up now, so hopefully there won’t be any more delays for a good while. Still trying to put money together for a new tablet computer, looking forward to being able to draw UJ comics IN A DAY.

We’ll see you all next week with a new update!

Category: Forum Update, Qeeko's Updates, Ultima-Java History
Tags: comic, Deviant Cause, forum, frontpage, Qeeko, updates

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 31, 2010 | Comments: none

Yeah! Dat’s right! Da luvable Tekboi has returned, an’ returned in style! Tho’ I ‘ave just bin dragged out of da back room, jus’ to giv yoo lot of freeloders a bunch of bad newz. Iz not my fault this time tho’, it’s dat boss of ourz. Maybe wiv me bak, there will be less skrew upz, and more stuff doin’ wat it s’posed too!

Anyhoo… Andy’s gone an’ changed da rulez of da ooniverz again. Accordin’ to ‘im, the multee-verz was too much to handle, an’ so he’s given up on dat idea and ‘as slapped all da ooniverzes togeva in wun ooniverz.

So now dat he’z dun that, da wiki needs to be ork-mended to explain da rules of da new ooniverz insted of dat old mish mash dat was a multee-verz. It won’t take too long… after all, iz muggins’ here dat has to fix it. Nah forget dat… too much typin’.

HEY! BOSS! IT’Z BACK TO YOU!

Category: Technical Updates, Wiki Update, Yark'z Updatez
Tags: backstory, Boi, down, fix, history, Java, mythos, physics, rules, Tek, Tekboi, UJ, Ultima, updates, wiki, wikipedia