YaBB, an extremely popular and secure forum software, written entirely in Perl, released a new version on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. Exactly two years after YaBB 2.1 was released, YaBB 2.2 has come on full-force.

From the official announcement on the YaBB Support Forums:

YaBB 2.2 - small numbers don’t mean small changes

Below is a list of just some of the things changed for this release. The list will be updated over the next few days. There are so many improvements, it’s a project just to list them all!

Feature Additions:
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Allow members to choose non-administration membergroups in their profile
Private Messages Buddy List
Buddy list integration in view profile and topic displays
Added a:visited CSS style and various other missing or previously hardcoded styles
Carbon and Blind-Carbon Copy address boxes in Private Messages
User Panel - buddy list, private messaging center, profile, etc.
Admin option for who can see the members list
Private Message ignore list
Forward Private Messages

The full list of feature additions, security fixes, bug fixes, etc. is available in the official announcement.

My supervisor at work sent me a link to the following video the other day. It starts off kind of boring, and it’s a bit long, but it does get much better as the video goes on. It’s a great video for graphic designers. Enjoy!

http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/

Well, it’s halftime of the “biggest regular season game in history”. Unless the Patriots come out of the locker room in the second half as a completely different team, I don’t see things going their way tonight. They have been playing poorly, given up a huge interception and been penalized for over 100 yards in the first half. In the last 30 seconds of the first half, they gave up a huge play, allowing the Colts to score a touchdown and take the lead.

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This is just a quick post to say that I went to a pretty good conference today. I am rarely able to find conferences that are worthwhile for me, but today I happened upon one.

Generally, being that I am a Web developer, I find that conferences are skewed away from my particular interests. For example, I was looking at a conference that is supposed to occur this month. The conference itself is a 5-day event in Nashville with over 100 different sessions.

Unfortunately, however, all but one session is skewed toward either IT professionals or faculty. Only one single session is geared toward Web developers. It’s hardly worth the extravagant cost of admission to go to a conference like that.

As I said, I am a Web developer. I am not an IT professional, nor am I really a marketing professional. Unfortunately, though, 99% of the “Web conferences” I have looked at are geared toward one of those types of people. Very few are geared towards those of us working on developing the Web sites.

Today, though, I was able to network with some good individuals and was able to participate in a roundtable discussion about dealing with Web 2.0 interfaces like MySpace, Facebook and SecondLife.