phpBBHacks.com was mentioned a number of times in a new book from Packt Publishing called phpBB: A User Guide.

This book is an abridged version of the previously published Building Online Communities with phpBB. So, if you want a phpBB book, but don’t want to know some of the more intricate details (such as how to write a hack) and would like to save a little money, you may want to take a look at it.

I served as a Technical Reviewer on that book and as this book is but a shorter version of that one, I also served as a Technical Reviewer on this one. It was written by Stoyan Stefanov and my friend Jeremy Rogers (a longtime member of the phpBBHacks.com Support Team). Congratulations to them on the release and thank you to Packt for allowing me and us (phpBBHacks.com) to be a part of it.

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iFroggy Design is out of the iFroggy Network and the site has been taken down.

You could say that, up until today, the iFroggy Network site that has existed the longest is iFroggy Design. I started developing websites “professionally” for people in the fall of 1998 (before there was an iFroggy Network) and that is when iFroggy Design - or what iFroggy Design would eventually become - was started. It was called PSM Web Design. Later, it became PSM Web Development. Finally, iFroggy Design.

Developing websites was the first thing I did online as far as working for money. Soon, though, I had other ideas. I had ideas for sites of my own. And I developed them. At first, they were rough - some would say bad. But, you have to start somewhere. For a while, I continued to work for the various clients that presented themselves.

But, for quite a while now, I have been turning down any offers/potential offers, as I am focused on working for myself and my own projects (iFroggy Network) than working on projects for other people. I had been leaving it up incase a project would be offered to me that really interested me or someone was interested in having me handle a reasonly quick job for them and in the mean time, just kept working on my own. I have been (and still will be) doing some small work for friends and family here and there, but I am (more or less) completely focused on my own project these days, besides that. So, I felt that it finally made sense to take it down and take it out of the network.

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Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress is a new book written by my good friend Jared Smith and published by Apress.

I’ve known Jared for years. I met him because of phpBBHacks.com and he was one of the original members of the Support Team at phpBBHacks.com. He was there in those early days when we really had to grind (not that we don’t now) to establish ourselves and simply not die - despite what others might have wanted. He was a big part of it and I’ll always be greatful for his support during that time.

So, it’s a great feeling for me to see a second book co-authored by a member/former of my Support Team (the first was Building Online Communities with phpBB authored by my friend Jeremy Rogers, current phpBBHacks.com Support Team member).

phpBBHacks.com was mentioned quite a few times in this book (even on the back cover). I know what you may be thinking “well, Jared’s your buddy, of course.” That’s not Jared. He mentioned us because we’re the best (in his opinion), not because of me. Individuals like Jared (and Jeremy) are a part of what makes what I do worth it.

It is an honor to be mentioned in such a way in a book of this quality.

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The DrGregHouse.com News section has been relaunched as the DrGregHouse.com Blog. Basically, I got tired of the “news section” format. The activity was sporadic and it was kind of boring. So, instead of a news section, it will be a straight blog where anything related to House can be mentioned. We may even get into live blogging some of the episodes. The Comments link goes right to the DrGregHouse.com Forums and TrackBacks are enabled. For each blog post, a topic in the forums is created, so there is “some” integration, although it’s not complex.

Read more at DrGregHouse.com.

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Hello and welcome to the iFroggy Network blog. :)

My name is Patrick O’Keefe and I’ll be blogging here. I founded, own and manage the iFroggy Network. I’m 21, I live in West Springfield, Massachusets and I’ve been working online since 1998. I handle virtully all updates, maintenance, etc. across the network with a few exceptions. In addition to writing content for the entire network, I have written many articles for SitePoint (where I am an Advisor on the forums staff) and I currently blog at YanksBlog.com, MicrosoftBlog.com and my personal blog. I host The Community Admin Show on The Podcast Network, as well.

When I’m not working (which is what I do most of the time), my interests include listening to music (often times during work) (big fan of Diddy and Bad Boy Entertainment), watching TV (House, 24, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The War at Home), sports (Yankees and Dolphins), gaming (Nintendo and America’s Army - although it’s been months since I played AA :() and investing, among other things.

This blog will serve two main purposes:

1. Primarily, it will be a means of announcing iFroggy Network related news and distributing iFroggy Network related information.

2. Secondly, it will be a place where I can comment on issues related to us, our business, etc.

We’ll probably get into some off topic stuff once in a while, as well.

So, there’s the intro post. Any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks for stopping by.

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