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Those of you who have eagle eyes, or perhaps actually care for some reason, may have noticed that TalkShoe, the website that hosts the live recording/streaming of our show, not to mention our infamous chatroom, has just launched a brand new version of their website, including new features. I thought that I might share the most important aspect of what’s new, mostly the things that are important to phpBB Weekly’s listeners.

The biggest new aspect is that TalkShoe now offers a web-based version of their client. That’s right, you no longer have to download the TalkShoe Live! client in order to listen to the show live and join in the chat room. The chat room operates directly in your web browser. Furthermore, you do not have to be a TalkShoe member to participate in the chat room! This means that the entire live phpBB Weekly experience is accessible to anyone, both chat room and calling in live, without registering on TalkShoe! (Although if you do register, you’ll get a more recognizable username than Guest205, for example.)

Note, however, that the downloadable version of TalkShoe is still available (now called TalkShoe Live! Classic). TalkShoe Live! Classic provides a more robust version of the chat room and audio stream, and is also required for using TalkShoe’s free ShoePhone service. Personally, I will continue to use TalkShoe Live! Classic to ensure that I can maintain a connection to the chat room.

Nevertheless, we’re really excited about the new version of TalkShoe, and we hope that it will open up the opportunity to be a part of the show, live as it’s recorded, and also to be a part of our thriving chat room, to a much wider audience. We invite you all to try it on our next live show!

Finally, as one additional reminder, if you have any issues connecting to the live episodes on TalkShoe, we have a special support thread available.

We briefly mentioned this as a possiblity on our last phpBB Weekly episode, now I guess it’s time for me to make it official. This Saturday, we will be reining in a developer onto the program. That’s right: phpBB Developer DavidMJ will be joining us on Saturday to talk about phpBB3, I would guess. Let’s just say, I wouldn’t want to bet against those odds.

Of course, we’ll probably ask him a bit about what he does in his own life (even though phpBB team members by general rule aren’t supposed to have a personal life) and how he got to be a phpBB developer, but the two Davids (DavidMJ and our own David Lewis) will also be talking a lot about the most significant new features coming in phpBB3, including some you may not have known about. He will also be taking in-depth about the new DBAL tools (which he was in charge of designing, by the way).

Of course, please take advantage of the show being live and join in! If you have any questions that you’d like to ask a phpBB Developer, this is a great chance to make your voice heard!

If there’s a question that you’d like us to ask, but you won’t be able to be on the live show to ask it yourself, there’s a discussion topic over at Star Trek Guide where you can submit questions for us to interrogate ask him.

See you this Saturday at 12 PM Eastern time (1600 UTC)!

It’s last minute partially because I just found out about it. What can I say–David’s getting better at organizing this show than I am!

However, I am excited to announce that on this Saturday, September 8th, we will be joined by special guest Yuriy Rusko, better known on phpBB.com as Marshalrusty, Support Team Member and one of the administrators of the phpBBHelp Unofficial Support Forum. If you’ve ever asked a question in the phpBB Support Forums within the last 3 years, chances are that you know who Marshalrusty is. He will be joining us on phpBB Weekly #029 to talk about his experiences giving phpBB support, both before and after he came on the Support Team. And of course, if you join in on the show live, starting shortly before 12 PM Eastern (1600 UTC), he’ll be here to answer your questions!

Again, sorry for the last minute announcement, but I hope you’ll be able to join us this Saturday for this special episode of phpBB Weekly!