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WordPress meetup!

Matt from WordPress was holding a casual WordPress meetup in Paris today. I thought I should drop by and say hello... Meet the legend, you know! (Do you realize WordPress and b2evolution actually both spun off the b2 blog software at the same time?)…...

September 30, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Sitemaps priority is confusing

When looking at the sitemaps protocol which is now endorsed by Google, Yahoo and MSN, I can't help but crying about how obscure the documentation is, especially for the element. Please note that the priority you assign to a page is…...

March 20, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

Redirecting old posts

One of the cool things you can do with b2evolution 2.0 is redirect older posts to a new URL. I've put this to use by redirecting some of my first English posts on fplanque.net to fplanque.com. Here's an example:…...

March 12, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

English only - moving

So... this is like my first post in my brand new b2evolution 2.0 English only blog. One of the nice things when you start a new blog is that you can write sentences like the above. Sentences that are almost impossible to read. Worse: sentences no one…...

March 11, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

Looking for a new hosting company?

As part of the b2evolution project, we spend a lot of time evaluating hosts for our users. We think we have finally reached a decent shortlist of companies providing the best service for a reasonable price. If you're currently looking for a host, you…...

August 14, 2006 · 1 min · François Planque

Rasmus on templating engines

At PHP Forum, Rasmus said this about the "templating engine question coming back every year": PHP *is* a templating engine by itself. Adding another templating engine on top of it just doesn't make sense. The only situation where it makes sense, is…...

November 16, 2005 · 3 min · François Planque

New feature: send message to author

Okay, I just put up this new feature from b2evolution/Phoenix on my blog: next to every post and every comment, you'll see a little envelope. When you click on it, you're offered to send a message to the author. The message gets sent by email, but you…...

October 12, 2005 · 1 min · François Planque

The illusion of DataBase Abstraction Layers or Classes

Many people think that DB abstraction is cool. I get emails about this topic all the time. People suggesting we add a DB abstraction layer to b2evolution, or offering to do so themselves. So why haven't we added one yet? Well, simply because DB…...

April 12, 2005 · 6 min · François Planque

There's more than the code...

Oh well... I think it's been too long since I last read some great wisdom like the one on Joel on Software. I read this really insightful peace today about all the important things beyond just the actual software code. Here's a funny quote: Human…...

April 11, 2005 · 1 min · François Planque

There's more than the code...

Oh well... I think it's been too long since I last read some great wisdom like the one on Joel on Software. I read this really insightful peace today about all the important things beyond just the actual software code. Here's a funny quote: Human…...

April 11, 2005 · 1 min · François Planque