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Episode Duration: 1:20:50
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples) and David Lewis (Highway of Life), with guest Andy Singleton from Assembla

phpBB Weekly returns from its month-long hiatus by coolly ignoring all of the big news that has come out of the phpBB teams during our absence. (Don’t worry, we’ll play catch up on our next episode.)

Instead, we’re proud to welcome Andy Singleton, the President and Founder of Assembla to our show. Assembla is a great product for creating online workspaces for group project management, and is used by our friends at StarTrekGuide. We discuss a number of the beneficial features offered by Assembla, including their offering of free private Subversion/Git hosting, as well as using the ticket/milestone system to improve one’s development workflow, and how it can help facilitate bug and feature requests. In particular, we discuss how a system like Assembla can be useful to MOD authors, or for anyone trying to manage a project with numerous users, whether or not it involves a coding project.

The MOD of the Week is Lock Post on Report by kp3011, and the Style of the Week is poker_olympus by abble CoSa NoStrA.

Stay tuned all this summer for a great resurgence of phpBB Weekly episodes! And don’t worry, the episodes that are still pending release will come out on Thursday and Friday of this week.