Felocity

The year's been good to me I'd say. It's funny to think I've had this site for some six years and I've actually managed to keep the design down to one per year or so. Since around this time of year I like to look back briefly, I can think of several highlights of the year.

January: Okay, so there wasn't any highlights here.…

I'm excited, I get to go visit Gaia's ISP tonight. I truthfully think the thrill is more in getting to work with hardware than programming. Plus, moving thin little boxes around is always fun.

Currently, I've been doing a lot of work with the way phpbb handles its permissions. The method is a group based Moderator scheme, which then uses a different user attribute for most moderation functions. Many people know about Gaia's two moderator groups, and this is actually more in line with how phpbb intended permissions to be. Give a group power to modify forum X, give another group power to modify forum Y. The problem is, all moderation functions check to see if you are an admin. In phpbb's architecture, there is no admin "group". The only reasoning I could find for it was that it simply wasn't thought of. Many other large scale systems (Xoops comes to mind) use an administrative group just like any other group. Permissions are then applied on the group level.…