Coding vs. Blogging :(
I have been realizing lately... it is very hard to blog while you code :(
Guess what? I have been coding like mad for the last week! :>> Reminded me of high-school days :))
Clean permalinks on the way
Okay, as I have said before, permalinks should point to single posts. I have implemented this into b2evolution today.
New permalinks look like http://fplanque.net/Blog/devblog/2003/05/20/p201. They link to a single post, including its comments, trackbacks and pingbacks.
I also took the opportunity to make them look cleaner using URL extra path info instead of a querystring. Later, I will also remove the post-number at the end and replace it with something more significant and less "crufty" as mpt would say [broken link]! ;)
News from the b2 world
Michel Valdrighi, the creator of the great b2, just posted some news today... after more than 6 months of silence... This is pretty good news to a lot of us who were getting really worried about him.
Welcome back to blogworld Michel! :) Hope you're doing fine despite your employment issues. :|
Regarding the future of b2, it seems that Michel plans to leave it up to WordPress, which is pretty good news too. WordPress seems all clean to me! ;)
What does that mean regarding my own b2evolution? Well... don't know precisely yet, except that I am running it here and that I still want more (much more:!:) than WordPress announces for their upcomming release... :P
Stay tuned ;)
Localizing b2evolution
Okay, with the first beta-testers testing b2evolution I am beggining to feel an urgent need to localize the software. I was running most of my pages with french text (like "laisser un commentaire") and the testers want english (that is at least english!) :-/
Right now I just switched back everything to english but I do need to localize this. Actually, I needed this anyway for my own site. I will eventually do it as planned and links like "leave a comment" will be displayed in the current post's language.
On blogs like this one, were posts are mixed in multiple languages (yeah I know it's a little strange, but this is Europe... :>>) that means I must have several languages handy at all times.
So I was thinking about putting the strings into arrays... but this may not be as straightforward as I could have thought, as I need to take care of several things:
- Make it efficient
- Make it readable in the source code. Replacing
'leave a comment'with$uistring[49][$lang]won't do it! - Make it easy for contributors to translate the whole product
Gotta think about it some more... ;)
