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We return from our two week vacation from TalkShoe to bring you an episode chalk full of announcements. First off, our own David Lewis is now on the MOD Team: Douglas leads the congratulations and also talks a bit about what it will mean for the show. It’s official: phpBB won the Sourceforge Community Choice Award for Best Project for Communications, beating out YaBB, Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim), and many other projects. This means that Bertie has a new Thingamagoop to play with and phpBB has major boasting rights for the next year. David and Douglas talk a bit about the other winning projects, the awards ceremony in Oregon, and thank the phpBB community for coming together to vote for phpBB. It’s also someone’s birthday today, and we report that the version number of the phpBB3 CVS has been upped from 3.0.RC4-dev to 3.0.RC4. Sure enough, less than half an hour after this show ends, phpBB3 Release Candidate 4 is released.

David couldn’t stay very long due to his job calling him away to Dallas, Texas without warning this weekend, so his planned segment on phpBB3 modules will be postponed until a few weeks off. However, Douglas talks a bit about the MOD Team’s release of MODX 1.0.1 this week, covering what’s new, and then sharing some of his opinions of MODX and where the MOD Team should focus to improve the accessibility of MODX.

The MOD of the Week is Guest See Only First Post by Wicher, and the Style of the Week is Glass by DoubleJ. If you’d like to point out a noteworthy MOD or Style for us to feature on the show, bookmark it on del.icio.us with the tag “phpbbwmod” or “phpbbwstyle” (without quotes), and we’ll see about mentioning it on a future episode!

Join us for phpBB Weekly #026 next week when Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal), phpBB Support Team Leader, will be joining us as a guest host! More info can be found on the phpBB Weekly homepage.

A big congratulations goes out to our very own David Lewis (Highway of Life), who today was accepted on the phpBB MOD Team! As a retired veteran of the MOD Team myself, I can definitely say that both the team and David are in for a big treat. As the teams are preparing for the imminent release of phpBB3, I know that David will contribute a lot to the team with his Olympus expertise.

David will continue to be a part of phpBB Weekly, and we’ll be talking a bit more about David’s promotion and what it will mean for this show this Saturday on phpBB Weekly #025. However, don’t expect this show to contain any insider-team secrets, we’re not trying to get David fired from his new position now, are we?

Now, everyone congratulate David in the usual manner!

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This special non-live episode of phpBB Weekly was originally planned to be numbered as #023SE, but we had such a great discussion that it turned out to be a full show! This episode welcomes back David Lewis (Highway of Life), this time as our new co-host. We have a very extended discussion about the release of phpBB 3.0.RC3, David’s appearance on an SEO and Internet Tips Talkcast on TalkShoe (and his mention of phpBB Weekly), and about Douglas’ trip this weekend to WordCamp, along with doing a loose comparison between phpBB and the WordPress blogging platform. Enjoy this special episode, and join us on July 28th as we return to our regular live episodes of phpBB Weekly!

Additional links:
WordCamp 2007
Colorize It! by CyberAlien
phpBB3 Changelog
phpBB3 Bug Tracker
Remember to vote for phpBB in the SourceForge Community Choice Awards!

You may know that David Lewis (Highway of Life) joined me on the last two episodes of phpBB Weekly, and to me, at least, he has brought new life to the show. Although I can certainly record things solo, there’s something about me that prefers discussing things with other people instead of just stating my own opinions, and I’ve really enjoyed having David on these past two episodes. In addition, David has an expertise of phpBB3 that I don’t have just yet, because my forte is actually with phpBB2.

And so, after thinking about it and discussing it with him, I am very excited to announce that beginning on episode #023, David will be joining me as co-host of phpBB Weekly! We will both be discussing phpBB news, and of course continuing to do our various segments/tutorials that we’ve done, however we’re going to be sharing the work. Some episodes I’ll be leading a segment/tutorial, and some episodes he will, however we’ll still both be contributing to it during the show. This will also allow us to discuss and share different ideas on phpBB news, etc.

In addition, we will still be inviting people to call in, come in the chat room, or send in e-mails to phpBB Weekly, and having David here will make it even better for us to answer questions and comments because David will be bringing a lot of his own phpBB3 expertise to the table. He will also be given access to this blog, so you may occasionally be seeing him comment on phpBB News instead of me, particularly as we get closer to the phpBB3 Gold release. Of course, I will still be handling all of the technical podcast stuff such as the website, TalkShoe, and editing.

Beyond this, the show format will still be the same. We will continue to cover phpBB News, offer segments on tutorials and comment/review things in phpBB and on phpBB.com, and continue to bring you a new MOD and Style each episode.

Our next episode will be this Saturday, July 7th, and we hope you will join us!

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In this episode, Highway of Life joins us to talk about his experience with phpBB3. He talks about how he built his Star Trek Guide Forums off of phpBB3 CVS (which is not recommended, by the way) , the differences between MODding for phpBB2 and phpBB3, and much more. We had an excellent interview on this episode which is highly recommended for anyone who is interested in learning more about what’s new in phpBB3, including MOD authors and people who are interested in building a real online community with phpBB3.

In addition, next week is the 2007 MOD Authors Convention in the #phpbb-mod IRC room on freenode.net. Douglas covers what the event will be like, how to participate, and we even come up with some questions to ask there. We will be covering the MOD Authors Convention next weekend on episode #022.

The MOD of the Week is Delete User MOD by ycl6, and the Style of the Week is ExtremeDark Red by GHS (view demo).