PHP Forum Software Showdown Part 4: MyBB

• November 22, 2006
• James Skemp

This time, we'll be looking at MyBB. “MyBB is a powerful, efficient and free forum package developed in PHP and MySQL. MyBB has been designed with the end users in mind, you and your subscribers. Full control over your discussion system is presented right at the tip of your fingers, from multiple styles and themes to the ultimate customisation of your forums using the template system.”

In this article, we'll be installing MyBB version 1.2.1, which is the latest version, as of September 27, 2006.

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PHP Forum Software Showdown Part 3: Simple Machines

• November 21, 2006
• James Skemp

Curiously, in late-September 2006, Simple Machines Forum turned three (it had been three years since 1.0 beta 1). That's curious because the current stable version of Simple Machines is 1.0.9, and there's a 1.1 RC3 out as well (as of late-October 2006).

In this article, we'll be installing Simple Machines version 1.0.9, so we can compare it to the other PHP forums that we've installed, or will be installing.

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PHP Forum Software Showdown Part 2: Vanilla

• November 20, 2006
• James Skemp

While the Vanilla forum's are fairly unknown, it's been around for a little over a year. “Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.” The version we'll be installing, 1.0.1, was released in late-August 2006.

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PHP Forum Software Showdown Part 1: bbPress

• November 19, 2006
• James Skemp

A relative new-comer, bbPress “is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress”. The first public version, 0.72, was released in mid-October 2006, and the version we'll be installing, 0.73, was released a couple of weeks later. Downloading bbPress is fairly easy, since there's only two options – one for the installer in .zip, and one in .tar.gz.

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PHP Forum Software Showdown

• November 18, 2006
• James Skemp

Hopefully by the end of the month, I'll have posted six reviews for six different pieces of forum software, that run on PHP (and MySQL).

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Three reasons Microsoft Firefox is a hoax

• November 14, 2006
• James Skemp

Three reasons Microsoft Firefox is a hoax, in order of when I spotted them. 1) "it's better now ... like seriously ..." 2) Site Ground banner in the bottom left corner. 3) Create a better video, eh? Microsoft doesn't need to reuse the same video they used elsewhere. 4) Free email address?  How 90s/early 00s ... The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/14/ms_firefox/ Microsoft(R) Firefox | We've Made it Better

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ColdFusion MX 7 hosting, for free?

• November 12, 2006
• James Skemp

On this site, I have a number of articles discussing how to setup ColdFusion MX, both version 6.1 and version 7.0. These tutorials will get you up and running on your own computer, but there's no information on how to continue on to a real, live, host.

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It's time to grow up - Why IE 7 means we all win

• October 25, 2006
• James Skemp

Earlier today I ran across an article titled "IE7 vs. FireFox: Why Microsoft Lost the Battle," which stated at the end that "All in all, IE evolution is not impressive at all. It will still have one advantage though: after installing/reinstalling XP or Vista, IE7 will be the first and only browser used to download Opera, BonEcho or FireFox…" Unfortunately, this article, as well as the numerous other articles that state that Microsoft's IE 7 is 'too little, too late,' are way off base, which is quite the good thing.

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WinMerge 2.6 released

• October 16, 2006
• James Skemp

The very helpful, and always cool, WinMerge has been updated to version 2.6. Grab it while it's hot.

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Photoshop is fun!

• October 5, 2006
• James Skemp

Duh. Unfortunately, much like Google Video, you can get sucked into the program and end up spending hours (2 and a half in my case) goofing around, getting nothing of real value done. Of course, that begs the question of whether experience, as experience, is of any value. Do we, simply by experiencing, benefit? I suppose when it comes to use a technology, like Photoshop, any experience is a good experience.

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