phpBB Weekly

Just a heads up for those of you who may be interested that I will be interviewed on WordPress Weekly this Friday, January 9th at 8 PM EST (0100 UTC on Saturday 1/10). Like our show, WordPress Weekly is a live podcast recorded on TalkShoe by Jeff Chandler (Jeffro2pt0), a good friend of this show, and he does a really good job with WordPress Weekly. We’ll likely talk a bit about phpBB Weekly, discussions on phpBB vs. WordPress from a code and/or interface standpoint, and maybe some of my experience with personal blogging (a subject that has nothing to do with phpBB whatsoever).

As a TalkShoe-based podcast, you can join-in to WordPress Weekly the same way you join in on our show (just use Call ID 34224 instead). Just wanted to mention it in case you’re interested in listening in!

Just a reminder, phpBB Weekly will NOT be live on January 10th or 17th. We will be releasing a non-live episode (#094) during the interim, and our next live episode will be on January 24th.
–Douglas Bell, Co-Host of phpBB Weekly

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Episode Duration: 1:25:40
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples) and David Lewis (Highway of Life)

This episode did not go according to plan. We had expected to have phpBB Developer DavidMJ on as a guest today, but unbeknownst to us at the time, he had a family emergency and was unable to make it, so we ended up coming together with a pretty good show while we stalled and took comments from our live listeners (six of whom were phpBB team members!). This episode was recorded right before the release of phpBB3 RC-6 and the ensuing chaos that has followed the release, which you can read a bit about in the previous post on this blog, and which will be discussed more thoroughly on next week’s episode. We do hope to try to bring DavidMJ on sometime in November, with more details coming soon.

In this episode we talk a bit about the phpBB Security Team and Incident Investigation Team and about what those teams do, and also briefly discuss some common security vulnerabilities common in PHP code that both the developers and MOD authors need to look out for. We do a little bit more coverage of the just-about-to-be-released RC-6, and wander off for a few minutes into a discussion of Mac security vs. Windows security. (It’s not as bad as you might think.) Then, Jeffro calls in and asks us to talk a bit more about just how private private messaging is, and we also talk about changes in phpBB3 styles vs. phpBB2 styles and possible enhancements to phpBB MODding in the long-term future.

The MOD of the Week is Notify Admin on Registration for phpBB3 by ameeck, and the Style of the Week is Playstation for phpBB3 by Scott Stubblefield.

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