bbPress 0.9 Released

The bbPress folks have released version 0.9 of their forum software.
It looks like the primary reason for the upgrade is so that those that have integrated bbPress and WordPress can upgrade to WordPress 2.5. There are also several new features including an installer, more RSS feeds, and Gravatar support. The bbPress [...]

Habari 0.4 Released

Version 0.4 of Habari is available for download. For those that have never heard of Habari (including me) it’s a new blog platform. From looking through their wiki it looks pretty slick.

GoCodes redirection plugin

Have you ever needed to give out a URI from a blog post? Sure, you can do it, but the URIs are usually pretty long. And forget about it if you’re saying it over the phone or on a podcast. A Wordpress plugin called GoCodes looks like it may be able to [...]

phpSpeedy claims seem exaggerated

A web buddy of mine sent me a link to phpSpeedy via StumbleUpon, and asked me what I thought of it. It seems like a good idea for a topic, and a waste if I just replied in email, so I figured I’d write my thoughts here.
What phpSpeedy claims is that it speeds up [...]

Passive FTP problems with PureFTP, cPanel, and APF

A few months ago I moved all of my domains from a sad little VPS over to a dedicated server, and it made a huge difference in how well my sites worked. The only catch is that FTP connections were flaky. What I found is that setting the connection to Active would work, [...]