This after-Thanksgiving episode of phpBB Weekly was interesting because we hadn’t really planned as much for the episode as we should have because we were busier planning for Thanksgiving, however through debates, discussion, and question answering, we were able to take a single, short topic and extended it out to make an entire show, to our surprise.
We start the show by giving our birthday wishes to David, whose birthday will be on Monday, November 26th, and we also go over some of the new features of phpBB Weekly’s website.
Following a recent announcement on Star Trek Guide in which David updated to a CVS version of phpBB3, we question him on his motives. It turns out that there will be an eighth release candidate for phpBB3 which will be coming out very soon. We discuss the new release a bit and also take a look at what it means for the timing of the final release. As the show lingers on, we end up having a bit of a heated discussion about phpBB3 vs. phpBB2, and we also talk a bit about phpBB3’s release cycle after 3.0.0 “Olympus” is released.
At long last, phpBB Weekly #035 (originally aired on October 20th, 2007) has been released. Douglas was away during this episode taking a test, and so David was joined by his brother and co-founder of Star Trek Guide, Francis Lewis, also known as Handyman.
David and Francis begin by looking at the latest changes to the phpBB3 CVS (which could either be Release Candidate 8 or 3.0 gold), welcome Dicky, the newest member of the Support Team, and take a look at some of the hottest questions coming from the phpBB Support forum. They then talk extensively about SEO in phpBB3.
The MOD of the Week is Global Announcements for phpBB3 by barrycarlyon, and the Style of the Week is Serenity for phpBB3 by CyberAlien.
Note About Audio Quality: David apparently had some difficulty getting the TalkShoe audio stream to produce good quality, which is why this episode doesn’t sound very good. To be honest, we’re not professional audio engineers, so we’re providing this episode “as is.” However, if any of you are professional audio engineers, contact us and we’ll let you have a crack at “fixing” phpBB Weekly #035, and give credit to whoever is successful. In the meantime, please forgive us for the quality of this episode.
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