Nerd Life

Just realized I barely haven't posted anything to this blog for the whole month and this is my last chance to pop up on the calendar page for May! :P

So what has happened for the last few weeks?

Well, for the most part we polished and we released the much anticipated b2evolution 0.9, got a lot of feedback and made it even better (0.9.0.5 so far).

Incidently, at the same time, as you must have heard by now, Movable Type changed their licensing scheme, disappointed a lot of their users, created a tidal wave of blogtool evaluating, comparing and switching all over the blogosphere. With slashdoting and everything. |-|

Funny actually, because the new license isn't really that much different from the previous one. Looks like people just opened their eyes and suddenly realized what it really was about! :>

At least, with a license like b2evolution's GNU GPL, users can rest in peace. (It's so Free actually, commercial companies like SCO would like to get if off the surface of the planet! >:-[ But since it's being used by tens of thousands of free open source projects, I really don't see this happening anytime soon... :>> )

Well, anyway, I think one of the most interesting "replace-your-MT" comparisons was provided by Owen in his - now famous - Blog Software Breakdown [Page gone].

Owen eventually decided to go with WordPress for himself and explains his choice. Interesting. Of course I wish he'd gone with b2evo, but I guess he didn't need the extra functionality. It's never too late though! ;D

Anyway, I hope Owen is going to maintain his chart in the future because it's a valuable resource... as long as it's not outdated. ;)

Well, apart from that... the world is still screwed as usual in its grotesque pattern of self destruction... but that's a topic for another day!

Today I thought it was time for me to catch up on Atom and add support for this format to b2evolution.

Okay, done. Here's my Atom 0.3 feed. And it validates too.

But I had to leave out a link to comments as well as my categorization! There's no support for these in the spec yet. What a shame! :no:

And finally, the biggest frustration: checked out my feed in the popular SharpReader aggregator... and it turns out it doesn't support "multipart/alternative" content. Bleh! >:XX So I had to leave that out too...

So at least, we have b2evolution supporting Atom in croncrete terms now... but if you ask me, RSS 2.0 is still the most useful syndication format! :roll:

Thanks to Travis [site gone] and Jason [site gone], b2evolution.net has found a new home... well two new homes actually! So once we're done with the set up, the site will be back to stay for good! ;)

Also, all the contents, especially from the Forums, will be back just as they left! B)

Thank you guys for your support! :D

Oh wait! Just got a third hosting offer! Hi Ben! This community really rocks! :yes:

Update: 3 a.m. everything is running again. Gonna get some sleep. See you other there...

Some people suggested I consider hosting b2evolution.net on SourceForge. While I'd like to, their acceptable use policy is in several ways too restrictive, essentially here:

You may host a small demonstration site for your software, provided it is not resource-intensive, does not violate our Terms of Use agreement, and does not require outbound connectivity. Users should not be permitted to modify data in your demo site. You may use your project web space for software testing, so long as the testing is performed only by a small group of people (this is not an appropriate place to host a production test involving large groups).

bevolution.net usage stats

In order to possibly arrange for new hosting a few people have asked for bandwidth and space requirements.

I posted a webalizer bandwidth usage report here.

Regarding diskspace, the site takes approx 10 MB and the mysql databases about 70 MB, however most of this is stats and we can seriously cut down on it if needed.

A few more observations:

• Relatively stable over all week days (Wed, Thu, Fri are most busy, Sat least busy).
• Relatively stable over the whole daytime (US afternoon is the most busy).
• Downloads (heavy files) are carried through SourceForge.
• All mysql databases could be melted into one if needed.

Finally, we'll be glad to carry a banner/logo on the site for the new generous host. ;)