A discussion on the reasons why MyBB does not have a database import feature, including security, focus, weight and reliability.
Dennis
I am currently a software developer at A Thinking Ape Entertainment Ltd. I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science with the Software Engineering Option. I primarily speak Python and C# these days, but in the past I've also done Objective-C, Java and PHP.
Outside of work, I'm a volunteer on the youth ministry team at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, and also on the Canadian Ski Patrol team at Mount Seymour. I'm also an avid transit enthusiast/photographer.
MyBB 1.4 Released
We released MyBB 1.4 to the masses this weekend. I wouldn’t say it’s “overdue” but it’s about time we had this release out the door. We still haven’t managed to get the “self-fix” module working for MyBB to fix itself, so as usual support threads are pouring into the MyBB Community Forums. Unfortunately I was caught up in school and work to do as much development as I wanted to for 1.4, but the other developers did a great job recoding the entire Admin CP, and all the other things. Hope you enjoy MyBB 1.4.
A wreck
Ok something needs to be done to my site. Currently between work, MyBB, and other commitments I have found very little time to work on this. I have temporarily closed the forum section down (except for the plugins which are still available for download) until my new site is up. Also, I recently got a Flickr pro account where I will be storing my collections of photos.
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet
“IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet” Sounds like something Microsoft would name the next version of Internet Explorer? Well it was part of the list of possible names that Microsoft could have named IE8, but fortunately the team at Microsoft sided with sanity and chose simply “IE8.” I guess it does pay off to read the default RSS feeds that come with Outlook 2007. It gave me a bit of amusement while studying for my exams which commence in… two days.
Cheerios and Lectures Don’t Mix
So I was in my economics lecture peacefully taking notes on an interesting lecture about oligopoly by Professor Gateman as some “delinquent” (as Gateman calls them) walks in late and finds a friend who happened to be sitting on one of the seats on my row and settles down beside the friend. The latecomer is offered Cheerios from the friend and proceeds to munch and crunch on a small box of the cereal for the next half hour, not noticing how loud the crunching sound really was, not noticing how the other student sitting on the other side was covering Continue Reading