phpBB Weekly

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Episode Duration: 1:16:54
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (webmacster87) and David Lewis (Highway of Life)

This was a special episode for us, as we spent the episode celebrating phpBB’s 10th birthday, which officially occurred on Thursday, June 17 — the day when the first lines of code were written by James “theFinn” Atkinson that would become phpBB 1.0.0. David and Douglas weren’t quite able to give a more “dignified” celebration to the occasion, so instead they spent the episode looking back at how phpBB first got started, and then commenting at some of phpBB’s accomplishments and other notable occasions from throughout the past ten years. See below for a full list of links for the items mentioned during this episode.

David and Douglas also take a look at the latest round of changes to phpBB.com’s homepage, and comment on the state of the prosilver theme. Douglas is also very excited about the release of WordPress 3.0, which he notes has included a brand new default theme there as well. And if you’ve got some designing gumption in your blood, check out the Libertyvasion T-Shirt Design Contest where you can submit a possible design for the Libertyvasion 2010 T-Shirt and win prizes.

We’re also going to host a phpBB Weekly Straw Poll asking you to vote on which T-Shirt design is your favorite! So what are you waiting for? Go vote now!

Our phpBB 10-Year History Review: (Click the # to open the related link)

• 6/17/00: First lines of code written for phpBB #
• 7/1/00: Testing request posted to DevShed #
• 7/15/00: phpBB goes to CVS at SourceForge #
• 8/14/00: phpBB.com registered, website launched #
• 12/16/00: phpBB 1.0.0 released #
• 2/17/01: Work begins on phpBB2 #
• 11/6/01: phpBB 1.4.4 released, final 1.x release #
• 4/4/02: phpBB 2.0.0 released #
• 4/13/03: phpBB nominated for Webby award #
• 4/21/03: phpBB2 localized into 43 different languages #
• 5/25/03: First planned feature list for 2.2 announced #
• 8/27/03: phpBB Announces new “pricing” structure #
• 8/2/04: Introducing Bertie #
• 11/18/04: phpBB 2.0.11 Critical Update #
• 1/14/05: phpBB 2.2 dead, becomes 3.0 Olympus #
• 8/16/05: phpBB announces community coding projects #
• 9/14/05: Paul Owen (psoTFX) steps down #
• 2/28/06: phpBB moves from Doreo to OSUOSL #
• 4/11/06: MOD Team premieres MODX #
• 6/17/06: First beta of phpBB3 #
• 1/4/07: phpBB Weekly Starts!
• 3/18/07: New phpBB Website launched #
• 4/30/07: James Atkinson (theFinn) steps down, phpBB becomes independent #
• 5/20/07: First RC of phpBB3 #
• 8/3/07: phpBB wins SourceForge Community Choice Awards for Best Project for Communications #
• 12/13/07: phpBB 3.0.0 released #
• 7/12/08: phpBB.com Blog opens #
• 7/20/08: phpBB hosts Londonvasion 2008 #
• 12/22/08: First beta of AutoMOD #
• 1/1/09: phpBB2 declared EOL #
• 1/12/09: First RC of UMIL #
• 5/14/09: First RC of AutoMOD #
• 6/24/09: First RC of STK #
• 7/22/09: Best CAPTCHA Plugin Competition #
• 7/25/09: UMIL 1.0.0 released #
• 7/29/09: Significant changes to phpBB development, 3.2 becomes 3.1 #
• 11/17/09: phpBB 3.0.6 released #
• 1/15/10: Meik Sievertsen (Acyd Burn) steps down as Development Team leader #
• 3/3/10: STK 1.0.0 released #
• 6/7/10: AutoMOD 1.0.0 released #

Our MOD of the Week is Full Quick Reply Editor by weeb, and the Style of the Week is SoftWood by FreeForums.org. The closing music for this episode is Happy Birthday – Ian Melrose.