The NASA LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon. No longer can anyone say the moon is a dry baron place. Not many people will realize just how big this discovery is. So big that we actually decided to post a news update. Yes, its been awhile. We have been working hard on other projects. Which has taken 1200% of our time.

So, back to NASA. This discovery proves that water is no longer to believed just to be in existence on just Earth and comets. This holds high hope that water is in existence on other rocks trotting along our solar system.

And so another conversion update folks.
The convertor is now done. The only thing we need to do is create a couple mods on phpBB to accept our IPB custom BBCode.

We are also going to create the design for the new forum before we actually convert over. Once this is done, we will update the board and you will see the new one.

Stay tuned folks, its coming...

Hello folks, its time for another forum convesion update.

I am pleased to announce that the convertor software is going quite well. The convertor now converts the data into a workable format for phpBB. At this point, we could go ahead and convert the board. However, there are some misc. things that we would like to continue on with the software. There are some bugs that need to be worked out.

BBCode from IPB sucessfully converts to a phpBB compatible format. Now we just need to apply that to User Signatures.
However, we need to decide the best way to convert our custom BBCode we have setup for this board.

We should see a conversion to phpBB real soon. Then its hard at work on DeoXMS again. After not touching DeoXMS for a good 6 months now, I fired her back up and she still runs beautifully. I reworked the file stucture and working on reducing redundancy. Also, since we will need it, we are going to quickly adapt phpBB integration. IPB 1.x integration will no longer be supported and we will try to create integration for IPB 2.x and 3.x. However, we do not have the means to test it.

From there, integration support will be solely reliant on requests.

Of course, we will be supporting with integration with DeoX Forum. Since DeoX Forum uses the same framework as DeoXMS, it will be tightly integrated. Or if the user prefers, partially integrated or completely seperated.

With that said, there is a lot of exciting work going. Its just a matter of getting it to you guys.

CAPTCHAs are very annoying, its been said time and time again by probably all users and every single developer. Visually impaired people can't use about 99.9% of them and neither can regular users in most cases.

I know I am constantly re-entering into CAPTCHA only time find that I am still wrong and sometimes even when I am right. (CAPTCHAs are also known to cause cancer, high stress, cigarette addiction, strokes, cerebal hemorrhages, and lower the resale value of your house and car... maybe.)
CAPTCHAs are also known to only stop actual users and not bots. So the viable solution would be stop using CAPTCHAs and develop something else. Unfortunatly, for the site owner, bots are becoming more and more sophisticated. All because naughty naughty spammers seemingly have no life. Really, they are not achieving anything except annoying site owners.

With all that said, DeoX Designs is commited to stopping spammers and bots dead in their tracks and will be developing a solution for this. The idea will be that no actual user will even know the system even exists. Therefore they can do what they came to your site for.

Instead of the usual system, verifying that the user is human, the system will check if the "user" is a bot. The end user has no idea the check is even happening, and as well, will be no security risk to them. Although, on legality, there may need to be a notice to the end user that a check is being performed.

We shall not punish our users because spammers try to destroy a site owners life. Instead, we shall punish the spammer.

We will keep you updated on our efforts for turing spammers and celebrate when we accomplish the goal.
The whole idea will be based on a solution that once successful, no one can crack the system and create a bot for it. Although this will be difficult, it is the ultimate goal.
In which case, then we only need to take care of human spammers. Which are much easier to handle than bot spammers.

DeoX Design Team

As you can see, we have updated the main site look. We felt the old design was getting old and outdated. So we went ahead and created this new look.

The new design is a more professional look going along with our new professional focus.

We were going to wait till we converted the forum to go live with the new design along with a new design for the forum.
However, we just couldn't wait to show you our new look.

Over the next few weeks; we will be tweaking the layout to make it more user friendly, as well, to get ready for some new functionality.

DeoX Designs Team