As I sort of dropped the ball on the development of b2evolution CMS after 18 years, I'm left with a quite a few websites running on unmaintained software... Surely, relying on (de facto) outdated server software is a big no-no for anyone working in I.T. Yet, I kept pushing the ball down the road... with no real plan in sight... Maybe I was subconsciously waiting for everything to break down...
I first started tinkering with the original b2/cafelog software in the end of 2002, as the original author, Michel V. had stopped maintaining it. Then, in early 2003 it became apparent that I was going to fork it and start maintaining something of my…...
2014. Time to wake up, eh? First off, why have I been blogging so little in the last couple of years? Guess it's a combination of: Too much work Having a real life (which I might not have had a few years back...) Google did a great job at scaring me of…...
Tested with MAMP 1.7.2, b2evolution 3.2 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 :Download and install MAMP (Free) into the Applications folderStart MAMP and make sure you get the MAMP start pageDownload b2evolution and unzip it into /Applications/MAMP/htdocsPoint…...
b2evolution 3.2 will be shipping with an enhanced twitter plugin based on Lee Turner's twitterlution. The twitter plugin for b2evolution allows to ping twitter in addition to other ping services. It will tweet the title of the new post and it's permalin…...
Lately I have been re-testing most of b2evolution's hosting partners... As the number of hosting test sites grows though, it takes days just to update the testing software on all of them. I guess I'll have the automate that ;) But that's nothing compa…...
b2evolution is available as a Gentoo Linux package.
There's always a nice feeling to stumbling upon a post about switching from WordPress to b2evolution... Andreas says: Finally, today I dumped my WordPress installation and switched to b2evolution. Playing around with b2evolution for the last few…...
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:…...
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…...