Just over a month ago I posted an article about am ambitious project we were going to start up under the Yourasoft banner. Was looking forward to really digging into something and spending my time working on it instead of raiding in WoW all the time. Sadly, it appears I’m still looking.

With the vast gap between some of the original founders, developers, and team members of SMF and the current SMF team one has to wonder where that unused talent pool is spending it’s time and what it could be doing. After three months of discussion and planning it looks like a path has been chosen!

After several months of development, Home Office Pro 2 appears to be launching February 1st, 2010. With a nice fresh new look, full use of current technologies and massively improved usability we’re really looking forward to seeing it in action with beta taking place shortly.

Over seven years ago my friend Joseph Fung and I decided the web needed an alternative to the leading PHP forum package out there. We created a PHP fork of perl based YaBB and after working with what we called YaBB SE for a bit, we re-branded as SMF, or Simple Machines Forums, along with a new core of code written by a developer who called himself [Unknown]. After seven years…it’s crumbling…but why?

As mentioned in an earlier post, I am looking at doing a new project. It’s time for a new challenge, perhaps a new language, something to get those creative juices going again and make some creative things. However, it is going to have to be put on hold for at least a little while so I can focus my extra time on a work project called Home Office Pro 2.

The time has come for me to pick up a new project. It’s been several years since I started YaBB SE/SMF and I’ve been pretty bored as of late and dying for something new to start up and work those creative juices.