Panic Button

Very soon my friends, very soon…

A hacker bot took the opportunity while I was busy with my work to break down the administrator accounts and deleted the whole database. Luckily I had done a whole backup recently, so everything should have been recovered.

But that’s not all ! I thought it was a good time to change:

• Change the webhost since sourceforge.net hosting is slow, too buggy, and simply too hard and boring (they changed 4 times the way to connect to the FTP the last few weeks, and their permission system is very ******). I decided to move to a free webhost (thank’s to GoFreeServe) to get a more reliable service. And for the moment, I’m not disappointed

• Change the design: the old one was merely the default template of WordPress. I changed it by a template I made from multiple sources (thank’s to AOE media GmbH and the Nuvola project). This should ease the navigation in the website, particularly for end-users

• Change the hierchical structure: I have ordered the organization of the website since it was a little messy. I’m sure this could be further improved but for the moment it’s well enough.

• Change the communication interface: until now, the only way to be able to communicate with us developpers were to either post a comments (which may not particularly be related to the subject) or post a feature or bug request in the Sourceforge.net trackers. But now, you have access to a whole new forum, based on phpBB3 ! Feel free to contact us via this forum, it’s made for that

• Change my planning: ok that’s not really a concrete change but the last weeks (months ?) I hadn’t the time to finish the new release of Panic Button, and that’s a shame considering 90% of the work is done. I’ll try my best to release it before the next month

Okay guys that’s all for now !

Hello
I am GrosBedo (alias GBO), and I’m the new developper of Panic Button. Firstly, I would like to thank Russel for his trust, and I hope I won’t disappoint him
I released v2.6 a couple of monthes before and I hope to do much more for the future of this project. I’m currently working hard on the new v2.7 which aim to be a great leap towards the future of this project, because it will support much more platforms than now, and will be even easier to use and configure.

As you can see, I didn’t post very much. I’m not a fan of chit-chatting and describing my whole life in a blog. But I have a profound respect for all the guys around the world who spend some of their time to help others with useful posts.
As I’m developping this new version, I’ve met some difficulties and problems where the only solution I could find was to invent one by myself. Sure I could find another easiest way, but I’m a perfectionist

I find this to be a real waste if other people run across the same problems as me and have to reinvent the wheel, or simply give up like I’ve seen many while my searches. So I will use this blog to give developpers some informations about python, resources, cross-platform development, and programming in general. You will find some scripts resulting from my searches in our sourceforge repository, under Related Scripts.

I hope this will be useful for some people. And stay tuned for v2.7 !

PS: Click here if you want to drop me a line by mail !

Panic Button’s releases have never been very frequent. This is for a number of reasons, probably the two most important being that it already does everything that I need, and a simple lack of time. However, I feel I should warn people that, because of changes in my personal life, I am likely to have even less time in future, and so development is likely to be even slower, and may halt for extended periods. If anyone reading this would like to help develop Panic Button, please get in touch.