From the monthly archives:

May 2008

IPS Office Mutterings…

May 27, 2008

If you were a fly on the wall in the US office, you would have witnessed the following:
svnX deleting two days worth of my work (classPost.php) with a single miss-click…
FileSalvage finding classPost.php enabling me to restore it…
Chicken and egg scenarios in ipsRegistry.php finally fixed. We hope…
Tweaking the IP.Board 3 template tag format to make it [...]

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New Sigur Ros Album in June!

May 27, 2008

Out of nowhere….
“sigur rós’s fifth lp is called “með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust” (with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly). it will be released june 23rd worldwide (june 24th in north america) and will be available to pre-order on sigurros.com on june 2nd.”
(Source)
How exciting! It’s the first album to have a [...]

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IPB 3: Making Templating Easier

May 15, 2008

Originally posted at IPS.com
HTML logic has been a feature of Invision Power Board for quite some time now. Although we didn’t make much use of the ‘<foreach>’ tag so that skins could be backwards compatible, we did make good use of the <if> <else /> logic. Now that we have a clean slate with v3.0, [...]

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IPB 3: Creating a new framework using PHP 5

May 14, 2008

Originally posted at IPS:
One of the biggest discussions we had during Invision Power Board 3.0’s planning was whether or not to drop support for PHP 4 and require a minimum of PHP 5. The advantages of using only PHP 5 were numerous and we really felt like we could increase security and efficiency by taking [...]

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Random musings of an 8 week old dad

May 12, 2008

I still find it hard to think of myself as a dad. It’s easier to accept that I’m a parent. I imagine that you don’t feel like a dad until you can interact with your child and somehow begin to guide them along their path.
It’s very easy to get lost in the day to day [...]

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