Something Odd!

Damn, I thought I had dropped enough hints and mistakes in my previous post to make it clear it was an April Fools! Sorry if anyone was alarmed! Read through the post again and note some of the pure bulls**t I’ve spouted to argue why I’m giving up!
So, I’ll be around for a long while yet. Expect lots more changes from me, I want to make b2 a hell of a lot better than it currently is and that’s going to be difficult!
I’m toying with the idea of rebranding my project b2++ or something similar. The scope of the project has gone far beyond Smarty, and I’d also like to get some of the b2 hackers on-board. It may even require a new Sourceforge project as I’d like to introduce more design concepts such as OO, and some of the patterns mentioned on sites like phppatterns.com. This will necessetate making the project more complicated for developers to pick up but Rev Jim’s review (linked yesterday) is scathing and has some merit.

I’m sorry to say this but due to overwhelming time constraints I won’t be able to work on the b2 mod running here any more.
I’ve spent quite a lot of time adding new features to b2 and pushing it out there but the resulting feedback isn’t worth it. I’m concerned about remarks that “b2 is dead”, and “the code is crap” so I’m going to call it a day and work on Moveable Type instead.

First off will be a template system using the PHP Smarty Templates System. It should be very easy to integrate the Smarty PHP code into the Perl code of Moveable Type as neither are finicky about whitespace unlike a certain other language I could mention.

I’d also like to support the new IPV4 Security Flag so that Movable Type will know when a posting is simply normal run of the mill text, uninformed rant, or flame-bait material. This really will work wonders for Internet security and it’s important that all applications support it.

Also, the fact that many, many Mac users use Moveable Type has convinced me that this is the way to go.

I considered abandoning Vi, but Emacs simply didn’t have the features I wanted. I’ll be using the Linux port of BBedit instead.

revjim reviewed Cafelog/b2 here. I have to be honest here and admit I haven’t looked at, or been concerned much with the internal workings of b2 yet.
I’ve worked on adding features I saw as vital to any blogging software I wanted to use. Now that those are in place (namely various template enhancements) I have to look seriously at the backend code.
On another note, can anyone access the Cafelog forum or Cafelog itself? I suspect the domains weren’t renewed and now they’re innaccessible.

Hmm. Trackbacks are broken. See this post for an example. I’ll have to look at that. more carefully.