July 2005

Dan Brown’s Deception Point

July 27, 2005

Unless you live in a cave (I’m not judging) then you’ve probably heard of Dan Brown. If you haven’t heard of Dan Brown then you’ve probably heard of “The Da Vinci Code”. If you’ve heard of neither then I suggest you watch less TV and stop collecting porn from the internet. (I’m still not judging). [...]

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[IPB 2.1] Template Set Differences

July 22, 2005

It’s still early days, but here’s something I’ve thrown together this afternoon. Originally, I was going to write a quick and dirty script to compare two ipb_template.xml files together and show a list of differences. I would re-format those differences and post them with a release announcement showing exactly which template bits had changed and [...]

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[IPB 2.1] API

July 20, 2005

A party inside? A persons IQ? Nope. Application Programming Interface. This exciting term encapsulates the ability to interfere with a program without having intimate knowledge of the program’s code. Good idea, I say. With this in mind, I’ve started work on IPB 2.1′s API. Now, fundamentally IPB has core classes, of which an API layer [...]

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Busy Week

July 15, 2005

Well, that was a busy week. Two BETA releases, over two dozen bug fixes and I still made time to move my blog from Typepad’s hosted service to a fresh MT installation on IPS hosting. There’s not a lot to report at this stage. BETA testing is going well and with fewer bugs that I [...]

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[IPB 2.1] ACP Permissions

July 11, 2005

I’ve finally finished this feature off. Hoo-rah. I’ve renamed it to "ACP Restriction Permissions" as it better suits the way the interface works. Basically, any admin in a group which has ACP access has full unrestricted access to the ACP. This only changes when they are added to the restrictions list. When first added, they [...]

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London

July 7, 2005

I feel compelled to comment on today’s events. I don’t want to add speculation, or claim to know all the facts. News is still coming in and there are no hard figures on the number of fatalities and casualities and it still hasn’t been confirmed, at the time of writing, exactly how many explosive devices [...]

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