Good news for all those waiting for migrate to JomSocial, you can now download a beta version for testing.

Instructions are included in the file simply view the source code.

IMPORTANT - MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS !!

Please note that this is a beta, and still has a few issues. Also not all modules are migrated.

The following have been tested and are working

Users
Profiles
Avatars
Friends
Photos
Videos
Forums
Events

Support is also included for Modzzz Points totals

Still to finish are...

Blogs
Sites
Groups
Other Content

Known issues are as follows...

Video migration throws error message for embedded videos
Events avatar migration throws error message when moving files
Forum migration needs to be updated for latest version - it's partially working (was working okay on 1.6)
No doubt there are other issues too.

Please, please, please, report back your findings HERE so that I can improve this and hone out the issues for RC1.

There is still a way to go, but things are moving in the right direction.

Download nautilus version 0.7 (updated 21.09.11)

It's very nearly here. The Dolphin 'Fish Script' to JomSocial migration script is just around the corner.

To continue on with the theme so affectionately adopted by Boonex, I have decided to give the script a nautical name. So with respect to Jules Vernes Twenty thousand leagues under the sea I have named it the Nautilus.

For those of you who have been patiently awaiting me to pull my finger out and get the script written, you will be happy to learn that I only have a few more tables to migrate and it will be finished (after testing of course).

So, just to raise the tension a little, and build the anticipation (in the best Boonex style - LOL)

Watch this space...

Well not being able to resist the advert shown above, I decided to take the plunge and update my Ubuntu install. Generally I have been very happy with 'Gutsy' What could go wrong?

The update is very straightforward and is easily done via synaptics update manager - first you make sure that the current install is up to date and then it allows you to install the update. The whole process takes about 20 minutes whilst it downloads and installs the relevent files and then reboots.

There's  a load of updated apps which is great as some of the apps in the Gutsy repository were a little out of date, Unfortunately there is still no VMware and more unfortunately it is likely that your curent VMware will stop working as mine did - however - fear not - it is fixable - After the mandatory google - I simply reinstalled it following some instructions for 8.04 and all was good (don't forget to back up your Virtual machine files first just in case).

One dissapointment for me was the new version of Firefox - well not firefox exactly (it's even better than it usually is) but the fact that most of the extension developers have not updated thier code to work with the new version. This is a bit of a pain for me as I regularly use quite a few additional tools for web development. The biggest pain is google sync as I use it to sync my bookmarks between my machines. Firebug and FireFTP need to come to the party too.

Maybe this is an apt time to get rid of FireFTP - after all there's integrated FTP support within Nautilus  but Firebug is just too usefull a tool to do without - c'mon guys hurry it up or I will have to roll back to FF2.

As usual with Ubuntu - things simply work - there was nothing else I needed to 'fix' the update was completely painless - I'm sure that if VMWare was supported it too would have been painlessly and faultlessly updated.

So...

Go ahead, what are you waiting for?