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We moved to a new domain and host, in order to have our very own blog.
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As the development of Fireboard came to it's end, it's successor named Kunena is rising now. Some major changes:
lots of security issues fixed
better integration with Community Builder

For escaping dangerous characters in the information you put into queries you can use the following function to check and sanitarize them:
function quote_smart($value)
{  // Stripslashes

We installed the new version of Joom!fish on our sites. After a few hours our host automatically set chmod 000 on the index.php file of our Joomla! installation due to CPU overload.
After reading this post i was able to put a stopwatch on the site. It's the only type of PHP benchmarking technique that gives you consistent results. When using microtime() function results are often too different, varying from 0.01s to 2.0s per script...