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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 of [...]

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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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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 really takes [...]

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