So you may have noticed the new design utilising some interesting graphics related to both my alter-ego jWarlock and my Scottish heritage.
But more interestingly you should have noticed the inclusion of some jQuery extensions being used to hide the Facebook Commenting section into a lightbox system.
Take a look, open the full article view and click on the 'Facebook Comments' link at the bottom to get some new ideas of how to position your commenting 
I have had a few people email me recently about configuration settings for the jwFacebook Comments plugin. To be honest it has been a great deal of time since I wrote the plugin, and time is a premium for myself right at the moment.
However I have taken a few screenshots of the Facebook App settings I recommend (if you are using the plugin without a true Facebook App running), and a few screenshots of my own plugin configuration (which you see running here on this site).
A fair few Tweets have been flying around recently around the Joomla Core Team's progress on the Joomla 1.6 Alpha release.
It just so happens you can download it now, however there are errors. But it will give those of us who are curious to see what is and isn't working a whirl.
The most notable thing I can note on at the moment is the inclusion of the ACL layer. Meaning, you can now set permissions for individual user groups - in effect User Group A can access Virtuemart, and User Group B cannot.
Very cool stuff, and I will be keeping an eye out on it for future developments.
I have finished a base up rewrite for the jwFacebook Comments plugin. This new rewrite gets the plugin ready for integrating the jwFB component I am working on (in effect the component will bridge the gap between what you see already, and what the Facebook API does).
Also.... I have fixed the Allowed Sections and Allowed Categories logic, and the { jwcomments-off } is also working too!
I'd like to take this opportunity to as well to thank everyone for supporting the project. You know who you are ;-)
The whitelabel version of this plugin is also available for the support subscribed people too.
There is lots more to come :)
It has been a while since I last updated something on the jWarlock website, and for the most part it is because I have been busy working, and then on the side working on my physical fitness.
So what is the long end of the story?
Over the last few months I have been looking through the JED and noticing there is a lack of good GPL Banner Management components for 1.5 (That are non-commercial and GPL).
So to throw the cat in the pigeons I have opted to recode BannersManager to comply with Native Joomla 1.5. So there is no more need to use the Legacy Mode in 1.5, and it is also another step closer to a 1.6 port since I have removed all the 1.0 codebase!
It is currently available in the downloads section under Joomla 1.5 Foward Porting.
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