PunBB -- Like It Better Than phpBB

I was getting sick and tired of phpBB. Underneath it's code, it's the craziest bunch of spaghetti code you've ever seen. And the tech support forum has some tough moderators to deal with. The support was shoddy and I didn't like it. And I got sick and tired of phpBB losing its theme settings!!!

I went looking around and found something I really, really like. It's called PunBB. I downloaded version 1.3 RC and installed it. It's a snap to install, and even easier to customize. Now, there are two drawbacks with this, but I found a way to overcome each one:

• It doesn't have Private Messaging. However, I merely installed pun_pm extension and it was working beautifully.
• It doesn't have Rich Editing. However, within 2 hours, I managed to convert it over to using TinyMCE with BBCode output.

So, anyway, I highly recommend that all your future forum choices use PunBB. It's easy to setup, customize, and integrate, and the tech support community for it is really good too.

Project Management Needs -- Use ActiveCollab

Okay, I'm sold. I'm a convert. This ActiveCollab is really neat. I'm using it on a project with a partner and it helps us collect our ideas in a central place since our inboxes sometimes get confusing to go through. We can also set up permissions in it such that our clients can interact with us but cannot see certain parts.