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Programming

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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Community Content System

June 22, 2009

If you haven’t already, check out our forthcoming Community Content System: an easy way to add pages to your website.
The core of the CCS application centers around allowing you to create pages for your website. The way you create pages and the types of pages you create will be specific to your site, however the [...]

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The final debate

June 19, 2009

I could be forgiven for getting a sense of deja-vu at the forthcoming ‘final’ release of IP.Board 3.0.0. It’s a few months short of ten years since I released an alpha of Ikonboard and since then I’ve been in this position many times.
A ‘final’ release of a new major version is an oxymoron.
IP.Board 3.0.0 is [...]

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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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IP.Nexus, revealed

September 17, 2007

.. and the wait is over!
If you’ve not already seen this, go see it now!

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