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Episode Duration: 1:21:27
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples), David Lewis (Highway of Life), Francis Lewis (Handyman), Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal), Paul Sohier (Paul), Phil Crumm (iWisdom), Erik Frerejean (erikfrerejean), Tom Beddard (subBlue), Douglas’ Dormitory Floormates, Adam Reyher (AdamR), Cullen Walsh (Brainy), OSCONvasion Attendees, and Lorelle VanFossen

Happy Boxing Day! That’s right, it’s Douglas’ second-favorite obscure holiday of the year (behind only Groundhog Day), underscored by the fact that it’s not even an American holiday. But that isn’t stopping us from taking a well-deserved post-Christmas break, this week. So on our third annual clip-show episode, phpBB Weekly closes out the year 2009 by taking a look back at some of our favorite moments from the forty episodes that we recorded this past year. This year saw a lot of transition for all of us here at phpBB Weekly: David and Francis moved on from the MOD Team and had to leave phpBB for a few months, and Douglas moved on to life at university for the first time. phpBB Weekly also got its swanky new website and logo and finally departed from TalkShoe as it transitioned to using uStream. We’ve accomplished a lot this year, and are looking forward to accomplishing much more as we move into the next decade.

The following clips are featured in this Best Of episode (the time in parentheses indicates the timestamp in the episode where the clip begins; these are also marked with chapters in the Enhanced AAC version):

• Episode #107: The Front Fell Off! (1:09)
• Episode #109: Hell Froze Over — Quick Reply Is Here (7:00)
• Episode #112: USBWine and phpBB Coffee Maker (17:05)
• Episode #118: Interview with Tom Beddard (21:28)
• Episode #102: BBGourmet — Cooking for Your Community (32:45)
• Episode #123: Surprise Happy Birthday (39:40)
• Episode #109: Do You Know the Way to San Jose? (41:52)
• Episode #115: Live from OSCONvasion 2009 (43:52)
• Episode #098: Singles Awareness Day, To Micheal With Love (1:02:01)
• Episode #112: Paamayim Nekudotayim (1:04:52)
• Episode #119: Interview with Lorelle VanFossen (1:09:04)
• Wrap-Up (1:20:08)
• Episode #107: “The Front Fell Off” Montage (1:20:51)

We would have liked to include some clips from these episodes as well, but did not in order to keep this episode within a reasonable amount of time (and shorter than last year’s). Nevertheless, you may be interested in checking out these other “runner-up” episodes:

• Episode #094: Fun Episode with the “Spokane Clan”
• Episode #097: Critical Episode Covering phpBB.com Outage and Cracked CAPTCHA (Jan/Feb ’09)
• Episode #111: Interview with John Wells of WP-United
• Episode #122: 3.0.6 Feature Reading Competition
• Episode #124: CAPTCHA Plugins and Trademark Fun
• Episode #125: Interview with Bernard Meldonado of Solona
• Episode #126: Micheal on His “Webapp Breakage” Video
• Episode #128: “Spam Can Ruin Your Minute” — Looking Back at Santy
• Episode #130: Interesting Discussions with Jeff Chandler of WordPress Weekly

Our 2010 season kicks off on Saturday, January 2, live yet again on uStream at 1:00 PM EST/1800 UTC! We hope you’ll plan to join us! Have a Happy New Year and a Happy New Decade!