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subnet: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/03/01/joost-beta-invitations-available/#comment-88156" title="View the entire comment by subnet">@jack signup for joost is public now for everyone!
Jack: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/03/01/joost-beta-invitations-available/#comment-88155" title="View the entire comment by Jack">Could you please send me a Joost Invite? We would
Gracie: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/04/14/using-twitter-for-server-monitoring/#comment-88152" title="View the entire comment by Gracie">Right on track about thinking outside the box, I agree.
subnet: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/06/16/phptube-youtube-api-for-video-upload-download/#comment-88151" title="View the entire comment by subnet">hi again, just wanted to let you know that 0.1.7 seems
subnet: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2008/04/28/microsoft-live-mesh-impressions-invitations/#comment-88149" title="View the entire comment by subnet">Hi Mark - meanwhile Mesh is public, you won't need

beta: phpBB 3.0 Beta 1 released

Tags: beta, php, software

the phpBB-team released the first public beta of phpBB version 3.0 (’Olympus’) this saturday. phpBB is probably the worlds most often installed opensource bulletin-board system and therefor also an inviting target for automated mass-hacks. besides tightening security, new features in 3.0 cover many things previously accomplished by external extension as well as loads of new stuff: attaching of files and inline-media to posts, more flexible user-profiles, improved user-management, better performance due caching and support for Oracle-databases (here is a list of the Olympus feature highlights).

my first impression after a quick test-installation of Olympus: many of the new features are useful (I especially like the new administration-panel) and will make everyone hosting a phpBB-board want to upgrade soon. let’s hope that the phpBB-team will offer good migration-tools, otherwise the transition to 3.0 could be painful…

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