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Douglas missed this episode because his return flight from Long Beach the day before suffered a seven hour delay (read more if you’re interested), effectively turning it into a red eye flight, so he slept in during this episode. TalkShoe apparently wasn’t being cooperative, but in a fairly Official Podcast-esque episode of phpBB Weekly, he is joined via a Skype conference call by phpBB team members Paul and Techie-Micheal.

This episode, like about a third of our episodes to date, is all about MODs. David, Paul, and Micheal talk extensively about MOD Development, the MOD Database, and other things MOD authors may want to know. Finally, they talk a bit about the tribulations of giving support for boards with MODs on them, and what the Support Team can and cannot do to help you when a MODded board needs help.

The MOD of the Week is Prime Memberlist Filter for phpBB3 by primehalo, and the Style of the Week is Brushed Metal for phpBB3 by Robin Huurman.

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Following a few weeks off for Douglas to go back to school and David to move house, we are back with another phpBB Weekly–and this time, David is leading off the show. Still, we have a great episode–despite an unexpected technical glitch that happened at the end of the show.

phpBB3 Release Candidate 5 has been released, and Acyd Burn has noted that it will hopefully be the last one before Olympus goes gold. But then, looking at the bug tracker, is there a chance that there will be another RC forthcoming?
This week, the MOD team asked for feedback on the new MOD Database. David summarizes a number of the comments that have been made thus far, and Douglas also offers some of his opinions.

The MOD of the Week is Welcome PM on First Login for phpBB3 by DualFusion, and the Style of the Week is Milky Way for phpBB3 by Mighty Gorgon. Plus, Handyman/GroovePlugs calls in to tell us about his Photo Gallery MOD for phpBB3.
If you have a MOD or Style that you’d like us to feature on a future episode, bookmark it on del.icio.us with the tag phpbbwmod or phpbbwstyle.

Finally, David mentions Skitch, a Mac-only application that he has been using to take screenshots and give MOD support with. Douglas wrote a review of Skitch which describes the program in more detail.

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