Phorum

During the last couple of days I did some experiments with IPv6 connectivity / applications / configuration. For nearly two years I already got two sixxs.net tunnels. One for a server and one for my home connectivity. I never got aiccu working on Mac OSX so the home tunnel was down most of the time. Finally it got [...]

Merely as a note to myself I just looked around the Gentoo bugtracker to learn about the current state of MySQL in Gentoo. So far I found two related bugs: About 5.0.x http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279493 What I learned from this bug: Recent ... [More] dev-db/mysql versions contain most of the percona patchsets already (neat!). Dunno about xtradb so far. […] [Less]

Merely as a note to myself I just looked around the Gentoo bugtracker to learn about the current state of MySQL in Gentoo. So far I found two related bugs: About 5.0.x http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279493 What I learned from this bug: Recent ... [More] dev-db/mysql versions contain most of the percona patchsets already (neat!). Dunno about xtradb so far. […] [Less]

Merely as a note to myself I just looked around the Gentoo bugtracker to learn about the current state of MySQL in Gentoo. So far I found two related bugs: About 5.0.x http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279493 What I learned from this bug: Recent ... [More] dev-db/mysql versions contain most of the percona patchsets already (neat!). Dunno about xtradb so far. Latest in tree is 5.0.84 which [...] [Less]

Long time no post but thats some stuff lingering in my head for a while looking at the mysql ecosystem lately. For a long time I had to stay with MySQL-4.0 (sick I know) but there’s a lot of software to adapt to the new version(s) but lately I’m pushing it more and more into […]

Long time no post but thats some stuff lingering in my head for a while looking at the mysql ecosystem lately. For a long time I had to stay with MySQL-4.0 (sick I know) but there’s a lot of software to adapt to the new version(s) but lately I’m pushing it more and more into […]

Long time no post but thats some stuff lingering in my head for a while looking at the mysql ecosystem lately. For a long time I had to stay with MySQL-4.0 (sick I know) but there’s a lot of software to adapt to the new version(s) but lately I’m pushing it more and more into mysql [...]

Well, I blogged about Wordcraft the other day.  I have just been running live on the software for 4 days now.  Well, that post had no URI associated with it.  It took me two days to figure this out.  Oops.  Welcome to eating my own dog food.  So ... [More] , running this live with actual users (and a host of bot spam attempts) I am learning a lot and making a lot of commits.  So, I may very well roll once or twice a week for the first few weeks.So, with that, I have packaged 0.5.  There are 15 changes in this package.  Some features, but mostly bug fixes.  So, if you could use a simple blog, give it a try and help me debug it.  If you do, please use the Google Code issue tracker.  Maybe I can figure out how to have those things emailed to me. [Less]

So, a while back, not sure when, I was listening to the P3 Podcast and Paul mentioned his dislike for Wordpress.  He said he wished there was a simple blogging application.  I am probably misquoting him horribly.  It was an idea that I had been ... [More] tinkering with.  So, I started on Wordcraft in my spare time.  Like super spare time.  That time between the kids going to bed and me falling  asleep.  So, it took a while to get it to a usable state. Up until now, I have used Wordpress.com for my blogging.  It works quite well.  You can get started quite quickly and it does what most people need.  My wife uses Blogger for our family blog.  It is, IMO, not as nice as Wordpress.com in some ways.  But, it does allow you to edit your styles (for free) and such which is nice. So, why would I want to reinvent the wheel?  I am a control freak and rarely run other people's code.  I know, it is a character flaw.  I am working on it.  So, what did I come up with? I had some goals when I started on this. Keep it simple. Focus on what I am good at doing. Keeping it simple I use MySQL.  I didn't try to make it work with every possible database.  In fact, it only uses the mysqli PHP extenstion.  The few objects (CAPTCHA) are all PHP 5 objects.  I don't plan to worry about PHP 4.  The templates don't use a template language.  They use plain old PHP.  The are scoped to protect template authors from global scope.  There are only 6 files required to make a new template.  There are just 589 lines of code in the forward facing scripts.  The admin has 2,446. What am I good at doing? I write PHP/MySQL code that has to work fast for a living.  It is what I get paid to do.  I am not a designer.  I am not a spam catching wizard.  I don't write cool javascript widgets.  So, I focused on the PHP/MySQL parts of the code.  For templates, I used designs that are released under the Creative Commons license.  I use Akismet and the CAPTCHA libraries from Phorum for spam catching.  I used the YUI Rich Editor for the admin where I needed a WYSIWYG widget.  I even link to the YUI sources that are hosted by Yahoo.  No sense taking on that bandwidth or storage. So, what does it do you ask?  Well, here are some of the features: WYSIWYG editing via YUI. Comments with optional CAPTCHA and/or Akismet. Custom pages can be created. Tagging of posts Custom publish dates Automatic Pingback support Friendly URL support with mod_rewrite 5 Templates in first release.  Easy to build more. Email notifications to authors There are some things missing of course.  Internationalization of both the admin and templates is a big one.  There is no current search engine for blog posts.  There is no "blog roll" type of feature.  There is no date based archive.  And I am sure there is more missing.  And I am sure there are bugs. But, if you would like to try out yet another PHP application, I welcome you to give it a try.  The code is hosted at Google Code.  It is a BSD licensed application. [Less]

So, a while back, not sure when, I was listening to the P3 Podcast and Paul mentioned his dislike for Wordpress.  He said he wished there was a simple blogging application.  I am probably misquoting him horribly.  It was an idea that I had been ... [More] tinkering with.  So, I started on Wordcraft in my spare time.  Like super spare time.  That time between the kids going to bed and me falling  asleep.  So, it took a while to get it to a usable state. Up until now, I have used Wordpress.com for my blogging.  It works quite well.  You can get started quite quickly and it does what most people need.  My wife uses Blogger for our family blog.  It is, IMO, not as nice as Wordpress.com in some ways.  But, it does allow you to edit your styles (for free) and such which is nice. So, why would I want to reinvent the wheel?  I am a control freak and rarely run other people's code.  I know, it is a character flaw.  I am working on it.  So, what did I come up with? I had some goals when I started on this. Keep it simple. Focus on what I am good at doing. Keeping it simple I use MySQL.  I didn't try to make it work with every possible database.  In fact, it only uses the mysqli PHP extenstion.  The few objects (CAPTCHA) are all PHP 5 objects.  I don't plan to worry about PHP 4.  The templates don't use a template language.  They use plain old PHP.  The are scoped to protect template authors from global scope.  There are only 6 files required to make a new template.  There are just 589 lines of code in the forward facing scripts.  The admin has 2,446. What am I good at doing? I write PHP/MySQL code that has to work fast for a living.  It is what I get paid to do.  I am not a designer.  I am not a spam catching wizard.  I don't write cool javascript widgets.  So, I focused on the PHP/MySQL parts of the code.  For templates, I used designs that are released under the Creative Commons license.  I use Akismet and the CAPTCHA libraries from Phorum for spam catching.  I used the YUI Rich Editor for the admin where I needed a WYSIWYG widget.  I even link to the YUI sources that are hosted by Yahoo.  No sense taking on that bandwidth or storage. So, what does it do you ask?  Well, here are some of the features: WYSIWYG editing via YUI. Comments with optional CAPTCHA and/or Akismet. Custom pages can be created. Tagging of posts Custom publish dates Automatic Pingback support Friendly URL support with mod_rewrite 5 Templates in first release.  Easy to build more. Email notifications to authors There are some things missing of course.  Internationalization of both the admin and templates is a big one.  There is no current search engine for blog posts.  There is no "blog roll" type of feature.  There is no date based archive.  And I am sure there is more missing.  And I am sure there are bugs. But, if you would like to try out yet another PHP application, I welcome you to give it a try.  The code is hosted at Google Code.  It is a BSD licensed application. [Less]