Merry Xmas and we have a new Forum!
December 25, 2008
I just wanted to first wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy holidays.
I haven’t been posting new blog entries … but I have an excuse! I’ve been busy working on putting up a brand new forum.
The old Java based forum was becoming a little too dated in terms of it’s features and the way it worked overall. It was showing its’ age.
Why not just update the forum software?
Believe me, I tried several times but for reasons I was not easily able to figure out, the new version of the forum just did not want to run on the live server. I could get it to work on my local development/testing machine … but not live.
So I then contacted the people who built the old forum and asked for assistance. To my surprise, they wanted 10-15 hrs of billable time to install their own forum software!
… I was willing to pay to have them do it, but 10-15 hrs to install a forum!! That’s nuts! Another classic example of Java’s tendency to over-engineer everything.
Sometimes it just makes sense to move on …
So I decided to start researching for a new forum given all the problems I was having, given that the forum had serious flaws to begin with and finally, when the people who built the thing want 10hrs+ to install it … it’s time to get the hell out!
Anyway, I researched and researched and finally found something that I liked. It is fast, modern, built with PHP and only takes 3 minutes to install … even if you never used it before!
I invite you to check it out: the new web designers forum at killersites.com.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
