Today 5 years ago, James Atkinson started a simple UBB-like forum on his own website. The name James gave to this forum was phpBB. Happy birthday phpBB!
Shocking news today in the world of Apple. Apple is ditching IBM, and moving to Intel for their future products. Quite shocking, since the Power PC chip has been the core of Apple computers for, well, ages.
Today, I stepped back as phpBB Support Team Leader. I’ve written a short announcement including some of the reasons here. I look back with a very positive feeling, and look forward with an even more positive feeling. I rest assured that Techie-Micheal will do a good job as the new Support Team Leader. And I’ll…
All you need is love. That’s today’s phpBB-related theme. Huh? Yeah, really. Because letha found her true love through the phpBB forums. She asked for support, someone helped her, and now they’re getting married! A funny way of meeting your true love, if you ask me. But if it happens, it happens. As this thread…
Marjolein made a new design for her website. And of course, I turned it into HTML. This design uses two stylesheets, one for Internet Explorer, and one for real browsers 😉 . Anyway, A simple browser check is easy in PHP, but we’re also using Nucleus for her weblog, and in the skinning system Nucleus…
Some of you may know that I’m a big fan of laidback electronica. Nice stuff to relax to. In that vein, I can recommend Brent Mottley’s ‘treeline’. Great laidback music to chill to. Unfortunately the people at Hippocamp seem to have some server trouble at the moment, but linking to archive.org directly works fine 🙂…
Until yesterday, I was a happy user of Fluxbox. A lightweight not-too-graphically-oriented window manager for X. But yesterday, zeroK pointed me to Openbox. Right now, I’m running Openbox. And I’m quite happy. Graphically, it is very similar to Fluxbox. However, instead of flat files with a specific syntax for configuring the system and menu, Openbox…
Well, we’ve just Rebooted the WebKoffer website. After a few months of black-on-white standard design, we now have a real design up! Over the next week’s, we’ll still be tweaking it a bit, but this’ll give you a good impression of how it’s going to work!
Amongst the tons of plugins for web developers, there is a new one. The Zend Studio Plugin integrates some Zend Studio functionality with the browser. Of course, only useful if you use Zend Studio for your development, but since I do, I’ve just installed the plugin.
I hereby declare today Thinner Day. I’m going to load all the mp3’s I have from the Thinner netlabel into a playlist and just play their music for one day. 🙂 And I suggest you do the same. Because the music released on Thinner is worth it. Bigtime.