Drupal is, independant of how you measure it, the leading PHP-based CMS. Whether you look at the amount of websites using it or the size of it, Drupal rocks it all. One thing that has kept me, and I guess many others, so far from seriously working with Drupal is the lack of object orientation…
phpBB. Software I’ll always have a love for. It’s not only awesome forum software (probably the de facto standard for discussion forums right now) but it’s also the first Open Source project that I truely contributed to. As a member of the Support Team and as the Support Team Leader I learned a lot about…
Hey phpBB community, It has been a long time since I logged in here (I haven’t checked, but it must’ve been years). I’ve had great years here at phpBB back in the days of phpBB2 as a user, Support Team Member and Support Team Leader, and even though I have moved on since, phpBB and…
As some of you may know, I used to be the Support Team Leader of the phpBB Support Team back in the days of phpBB2. I’ve had a lot of shit thrown my way back then, together with the rest of the support team, trying to keep up with the releases, the flaws, the patches…
Spam is a big problem, and everyone knows it. Not just the spam you get in your e-mail, these days spammers also write bots to find discussion forums and post their spam there. Quite some time ago the Support Team Leader of phpBB, Techie-Micheal, had an idea about this. He started developing the idea in…
Hmm… It looks like I am in some kind of identity crisis. Either that, or someone else is in mine 😉 Take this guy. He is claiming that I am one of the original phpBB developers, and that I’ve moved on to join the phpBB2 Plus team. I am also the author of some kind…
There have been some changes in my life. After getting my job at TomTom, I had little time left to spend online. With 8-9 hours at work, and a total of 3 hours travelling to and from work, I had little time at home to spend online. And since I have way more hobbies than…
In an on-going effort to keep a focus on security not just while coding but also in our support, earlier on we announced a special team dedicated to helping those who got hacked or otherwise affected by security problems. This team has been active mainly on the background so far, but now we’re also active…
The following is a reply I wrote to an article by Filip de Waard. Unfortunately, commenting was turned off on his weblog, so I could not comment on his weblog. Here is my comment: buggy PHP scripts like PhpBB Of course, being part of the phpBB team, I want to respond to this. Though I…
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!