April 2005

Persistent Topic Marking

April 28, 2005

Persisent topic marking has been something that’s often been requested across various forums. Until now, most systems relied on cookies to mimic a reliable system. To a point, this is fine but the usual problems with cookies plague the system; unreliable storage, easy corruption and them not being shared across computers. IPB 2.0.0 introduced a [...]

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Well, that was a difficult day

April 25, 2005

I have decided (again) that web development can be a huge time waster. So much time is wasted chasing your tail on difficult to reproduce bugs or on bugs which are hard to debug. It gets quickly frustrating. I had two ‘biggies’ on my schedule for today. The first was a very simple report: "When [...]

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(?:Dis)?Organi(?:z|s)ed Chaos

April 22, 2005

So, it’s the day after the afternoon before. In that time, we upgraded our corporate forums, suffered a DDoS attack, send out 12,000 emails, fixed 50 odd bugs and even found time to write in a legacy mode to enable the blog and gallery to work without modification. The upgrade to 2.1 seems to have [...]

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I was here!

April 12, 2005

Aren’t semi-palindromic consecutive blog titles fun? So, IPB 2.1 continues and this last few weeks I’ve been concentrating on the ACP. There are a few reasons that the ACP has needed a darn good sorting out which I touched on during my last blog entry. In its simplest form, the back-end code needed sorting out. [...]

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Where was I?

April 4, 2005

PHP is boring. After all the fun and laughter of javascript (a.k.a pulling hair), I’m back coding in PHP on much less interesting and fun parts of IPB 2.1. I’ve had to seriously evaluate the devlopment situation and I’ve had to make some hard choices about what IPB 2.1 is going to be. I had [...]

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