phpBB loses a great one
Posted on November 17th, 2005 in General, My Business, Personal Messages
Paul S. Owen, Lead Developer and one of the most active contributors to the phpBB project has resigned his position with the project. More information can be found in the general discussion forum at phpBB.com.
I am not sure about you, but I believe this is major news in the PHP development community. Why? Because one of the lead developers of the best free community application and the best PHP learning tool has left the project, that’s why.
When I was learning PHP, after reading Kevin Yank’s “How to build a database driven website using PHP and MySQL”, the first thing I did was download phpBB. I tore it apart. I looked at the logic, the use of OOP, the coding standards, the heavy use of as many native PHP functions as possible, it’s RegEx function use, it’s simplicity… and I found out that just about everything you need to build a great application was housed within this application. In fact, many of the development principles I follow today stem from phpBB and Paul’s code.
This is indeed a loss to the PHP community and to phpBB users everywhere. However, a fellow’s gotta do what a fellow’s gotta do so I wish Paul the best of luck in whatever he chooses to do. And I thank him. Without his vision I would never have learned to code as I do today.
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