Hey all, 

It's with a fair amount of relief and sadness that I'd like to announce that my Stalker, TalkToMe & JoomPing extensions have now found a new maintainer, Alain Rivest.  Fortunately, Alain seems to have settled in quickly enough, and a J1.6 version of Stalker is already available!!  You can go ahead and download the new versions from http://aldra.ca/

So thank you all for your kind words and support over the development of Stalker, and making it a lot bigger than I ever expected it to be!  And of course, a huge thank you to Alain for continuing with the projects!!

It's been a great ride, I've learnt a lot along the way, but I have to concentrate on some 'real' paid work for now!

All the best
Nick 

After a few weeks of procrastinating, I've finally come up with the decision to put an end to the support and development of my Joomla extensions.  It was a very difficult decision to make, on the one hand, I really enjoyed developing them, but on the other, my income has taken such a hit that I really need to put all my time and effort into building up my paying work.  60% of my Inbox is emails about Stalker & K2DynaMap, and it's becoming harder for me to concentrate on the important work... the stuff that pays the bills! 

I'd much prefer they didn't vanish into thin air, so if there is anyone out there willing to take on the projects (mainly Stalker, K2DynaMap and TalkToMe as they're widely used), then please shoot me an email via the contact form, and I'll send over the code. 

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who has supported the projects to date, and hopefully I'll be able to find someone to continue further development of them... watch this space!

After a marathon slog, and some rigourous user testing (Thanks Stavros & Ken), K2DynaMap 1.5 is now available for download.  This update see's the whole Map generation code re-written to use Google's latest Maps API v3.  I wasn't happy with the old library that I'd used, and there were too many limitations, so I bit the bullet, and hopefully what's come out the other side is hugely improved!!

There are a stack of changes, including Geocoding options for adding markers to K2 Items (yes, no more having to work out the Lat & Long!),  much improved marker's (including custom icons), better tab handling where there are more than one marker on the same geographical location.  There are lots of bug fixes, and several new ideas forming! 

All updates are listed on the Download Page,  well, the ones I COULD remember, so go have a look and try out this new version!  

I'd also like to throw out a big thank you to Stavros who really threw me some curve balls!  Thanks for your patience & help mate! (see K2DynaMap in action at http://www.go-out.gr/).

Stalker 1.2.3 is now available for download.  Hopefully, the next release will bring Joomla 1.6 compatibility!

This version mainly fixes up a couple of issues:

- Icons now have their width & height set by styles, to try and fix up problems where third-party style sheets mess with the icon sizing

- Removed the LinkedIn Group network, and updated the LinkedIn parameter, so that you can add the relevant prefix in, i.e. in/ company/ etc. If you used LinkedIn before, you'll need to add in/ in front of your Id.    

- Fixed an error message that was appearing in the plugin 

- MeFeedia has been added as a new network

- The JomSocial & Community Builder plugins can now select an iconset to use.

Head on over to the download page to download the latest Stalker

K2DynaMap has finally been updated and released.  I've actually skipped over a few versions here on the website because the updates were coming in thick and fast.

There are a lot of bug fixes, many new features and a new module.  It's now possible to list the results under the map, search for items via a search field, filter by category and even filter on more than one Extra Field. The Module now has a field for header text, and can also highlight the current marker in a different colour if it's being displayed on a K2 Item page.  In addition, because of this change, there is a new option in the plug-in that can hide the plug-in map if required. 

Anyway.. all the updates are listed on the Download Page,  so check them out.