How To Enable Nice Friendly URL in Vanilla Forum

October 23rd, 2006 First of all I want to make it clear that having a MySQL database without a password set (on your root account) is a very very bad idea. However I wanted to set it up on my home machine which has XAMPP installed.

October 30th, 2006 XDForum (example: Anaconda Forum) is a nice basic forum software which works seamlessly with WordPress blogs (download our free theme and plugins). Unfortunately it works out-of-the-box with default permalinks only.

March 3rd, 2008 We now have a forum dedicated to the viewers of this blog. Please use it to discuss technical topics of interest to you, issues that you would like me to address or by others, questions you would like to be answered.

February 13th, 2008 We have opened a forum for all our products and blogs. I haven't officially announced it yet.

July 10th, 2008 We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were: We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.

October 23rd, 2006 .htaccess is a web server directive file populalrly used in Apache Web Server in Linux / Unix environment. In windows environment there is a simple way to enable and use .htaccess.

February 21st, 2006 I stumbled upon Simple Machines Forum, from Simple Machines, which appears to be an excellent software and competitor to phpBB forum software which I use. It supports hierarchical representation of categories unlike phpBB.

March 22nd, 2008 A new forum for 3 column widgetized Anaconda Theme is now open. It is a highly popular free WordPress theme with tons of functionality built-in and a cool look.

February 8th, 2007 Few tips for Translator Plugin Pro users: 1. Use a caching engine.

March 22nd, 2008 Users, including forum admins, sometimes gets message while editing a post, sometimes for quick edits and sometimes for longer edits - "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again." This is not really an error but one of the two protection mechanisms in place in phpBB to protect your forum from spams.

October 26th, 2006 I have added a forum for our popular 3 column widgetized Anaconda Theme (for WordPress blogs). Looking forward to your participation in the Anaconda forum.

February 27th, 2006 I am happy to introduce the Unofficial Animax Forum to discuss about animax channel animes and movies. It also contains sections for other popular animes and mangas.

January 9th, 2008 Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page.

March 10th, 2008 Check out this site for nice cartoons in Hindi. Kaak is a popular caroonist in Hindi dailies spanning several decades.

May 14th, 2006 Strangely you cannot set browser window status bar using javascript (by setting window.status) in Firefox. There are two simple ways you can enable it.