Category Archives: The Plank

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Role Badges for Vanilla 2

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Captain Thomas Mashek

We just recently posted the initial version of a plugin we are working on for the Vanilla 2 forum software. RoleBadges shows a list of badges based on the user’s roles in a forum post. As of right now, it … Continue reading →

Using CouchDB With PHP

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Captain Thomas Mashek

One of the things that is being done with our project, Scrib, is building it to use CouchDB as the back-end database. The data we’ll be storing is more suited to a ‘document-style’ database rather than relational, like MySQL (here’s … Continue reading →

Install ScummVM From Daily Build in Ubuntu

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Captain Thomas Mashek

A friend of mine asked me how to install ScummVM from a daily build. Since I myself had not done this before, I thought I would write a little tutorial. For those who do not know (and who do not … Continue reading →