Basically, the punBB codebase is pretty ugly, and they are working on a newer version with some of the features I was hoping to add in.  Easy decision to hold off there.

*name is in flux, of course.

Basically, this will be not much more than punBB (the reason I love punBB in the first place is its simplicity). What it will do though, is make the process of installing and creating mods much easier. This will be done primarily through the ability to attach functions to the core functions.

It should basically meet these qualities: (in this order)

• Remain Lightweight
• Become much easier for end-users to install mods
• Become easier for developers to develop mods
• Retain Mod/Plugin Compatibility with current punBB

I’ll be kicking this off sometime this week, and will have an actual page up soon with more information.

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I came across this extension this morning. While editing the last post, I made a list, and tried to TAB in the <li> tags…only to jump to the next field.

Tabinta, short for “Tab In TextArea”, allows the use of the TAB key in textareas, which is lovely for those of us who cringe at the thought of unformatted code, but still love to hang out in development forums and such.

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Ok, I’ve been on a hunt for a while. So long, in fact, I think it actually qualifies as a quest.

The prey? A good PHP IDE to work in. Not just an editor, not just a project manager, but the whole deal. I need everything with the exception of local debugging. I’ve come very close a couple of times, but never can seem to get everything in one package.

Here’s my wishlist:

• Good Syntax Highlighting, customizable with regex available
• Function hinting that contains all of php’s core functions, and adds functions from the project as well
• Built-in ftp with local sync, dreamweaver style
• Project management at a simple level, not too much, just let me setup a dir as a project
• Recognition of multiple languages in one file

(more…)

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For those of you in IE, the site is messed up a little. This isn’t my template (I’m working on my own, for now this will suffice). I will try to fix this one though, as I’m pretty sure I know just what the problem is. If anyone hits this in safari, let me know if you see any problems!

*edit: Fixed… IE’s loverly 3px of ghost-padding.

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