IPB

Thinking of switching from vBulletin?

April 13, 2010

Part of my daily routine is reading our company forums, my Twitter timeline and other forum-centric forums. There is a growing buzz of interest from vBulletin customers unhappy with the direction Internet Brands is taking the product. It seems that with each incremental ‘maintenance’ release we get an influx of new switchers and topics enquiring [...]

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Why social networking is not the end for forums

November 30, 2009

I see a lot of questions centred around social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and how it will affect forums. I also see a lot of people saying that we should focus on social networking for IP.Board to stay competitive. This crops up every few days. It’s regular enough for me to try and [...]

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PHP 5 Will Make You A Better PHP Programmer

October 3, 2008

My apologies for the overly verbose title of this blog entry. But it’s true. Embracing PHP 5 will make you a better programmer. At least, it has for me. This minor epiphany revealed itself during yesterday’s Captcha Crisis over at IPS HeadQuarters. In a nut shell, some naughty spammer defeated our CAPTCHA and registered thousands [...]

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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 [...]

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My Name Is IPB

January 23, 2007

I got this via Josh and I think it’s pretty cool. One of our customers, TelevisionWithoutPity.com was recently mentioned in a My Name is Earl episode. Television Without Pity has been lucky enough to have its fair share of “shout-outs” and references from TV shows but the one on this week’s My Name is Earl [...]

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Security, 53cu417y, security

July 20, 2006

Well, what a month.It seems that just about every hacking group under the sun has been having a pop at Invision Power Board over the last few months.I remember back in the good old days an email was sent to you informing of any potential vulnerability before it was made public allowing you to fix [...]

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Mac Format Magazine Reviews IPB

May 3, 2006

Mac Format (UK) magazine reviewed Invision Power Board 2.1.5 for their June ’06 issue and awards it 4.5 stars (out of 5). There are several features that really make Invision Power Board 2 stand out from other pre-built forums which you’ll appreciate if problems occur. People may start leaving unwanted or libellous posts, which can [...]

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IPB, IPC and IPD

March 22, 2006

So far this week I’ve managed a little bit of everything. The biggest achievement being adding the IP.Converge installer. Rikki designed and Josh wrote a fairly generic IPS installer framework which I’ve tweaked for IP.Converge. It’s a really nice system that will be used for IPB and IPD to give a familiar look and feel [...]

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IPB 2.2 Development Green Light

March 20, 2006

Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.2 has been in spec form for a few months. We paused IPB 2.2 when we worked on IP.Converge. This wasn’t done for lack of manpower – quite contrary, we have four full time developers and two part time developers – it was done so that we could see how much [...]

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[IPB 2.1] Portal Plug-ins

August 2, 2005

So, the final piece of the IPB 2.1.0 puzzle has been dropped into place: the portal overhaul. There are two major changes. One being that it’s now just another run-time module within the IPB framework. This means that there’s no separate index.php file for it and there’s no way for it to be run as [...]

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