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 Surely, relying on (de facto) outdated server software is a big no-no for anyone working in I.T. Yet, I kept pushing the ball down the road...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......
From time to time I do a little housekeeping on my blogs. Today I moved some old English posts from my French blog to my English blog. I'm not sure if it even matters, but it gives me some satisfaction to tidy things up. I do it as a distraction…...
I've just uploaded the evo-sublime theme for Sublime Text on GitHub . It is a dark text on light background theme, with vivid highlights. This is the theme I use to work on b2evolution. Installation You need to copy the color scheme into the Sublime…...
Live HTTP headers is a FireFox extension that lets you look at all HTTP headers for all requests issued by the browser. Now updated for Firefox 1.5....
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…...
Besides the basics, there's three simple things I'd expect from an FTP client: Symetrically navigate in subfolders locally and remotely with single clicks;Upload files and overwrite the server side only if the local file is newer;Search the server f…...
"People don’t recognize how important URIs are. The notion that you have a huge, world-scale, information space, and that everything in it has an name and they’re all just short strings that you can paint on the side of a bus; that’s a new thing and a go…
Most sites can be reached by two different URLs. For example http://b2evolution.net/about/features.html and http://www.b2evolution.net/about/features.html . This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, i…...
It was bound to happen. Macromedia's (well, Adobe's) Flash player finally evolved into a very complete Virtual Machine. They call it Apollo. It basically solves the same problem Java has tried to solve for years: write once, run anywhere. Though it's…...
Here's a quick list of the Firefox extensions I'm using all the time for web development: DOM Inspector IE View (One button to check the same page in IE) ColorZilla (Lets you check colors on a web page) MeasureIt (Lets you measure Elements on a…...