Monthly Archives: May 2003

I’ve updated this site to the latest release of b2++, you can take advantage of the new features by choosing another blog template from the “Template chooser”. Then go into b2options and enter your blo.gs ID. Your favourite blogs will then be listed, sorted by update time!
Even if you’ve no interest in blo.gs, the new release has a number of other updates you might like!

New version is available for download. This release has a blogrolling plugin that uses your blo.gs favourites to build your site links! I’ll update this site in a day or so and show off a demo of it!

Spitfire asked about blogrolling support in b2. I found Phil Ringnalda’s work on building a blo.gs parser and integrated it into b2++!
It’s not available here yet, but when it is, all you have to do to enable support for it is add the following to your blog template:

{blogroll blogID=”999″ blogteststring=”Somestring”}

I have the following in my template:

{blogroll blogID=”1927″ blogteststring=”Keith”}

Read Phil’s page above for a more detailed explanation of those parameters!

A number of users have told me that posting to b2 is sometimes really slow. I suspected it was because b2 pings weblogs.com and blo.gs, and this post shows that it is a problem with weblogs.com
PHP Traveller documented a way for PHP to execute commands after a browser session/request is completed. It looks like a feature that isn’t very portable across PHP versions so probably not a reasonable solution for a publicly distributed application.

Mathew outlines his requirements for a weblog. Certainly worth reading, and contains lots of good ideas. Sam Ruby questions “the need for a database”, but I think it’s practically impossible to create a decent weblog or information storage/retrieval system without one. You’ll only end up implementing those functions of the database anyway, even if by hand, ftping files up to a server and changing links, etc.