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- Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:00 am
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Rewriting from ground up
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17145
Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. Iro...
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:37 am
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Rewriting from ground up
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17145
The big rewrite
You’ve got an existing, successful software product. You’ve hit the ceiling on extensibility and maintainability. Your project platform is inflexible, and your application is a software house of cards that can’t support another new feature. You’ve seen the videos, the weblog posts and the hype, and...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:33 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Can I throw away my WordPress installation?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41660
Re: Can I throw away my WordPress installation?
I also found this rebuttal very compelling: http://my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/2007/09/25/code-rewrite-yes . For a rewrite to be successful, it must be done by the same programers who wrote the original code. I don't want to hijack this thread, but quickly, the "rebuttal" you refer to is a bit confus...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:16 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Can I throw away my WordPress installation?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41660
Re: Can I throw away my WordPress installation?
The thought of a rewrite from ground up (which seems to be the idea behind 4.0) will be a massive step backwards and should be abandoned. I would think, on the contrary, that trying to go forward with the current code base (one that suffers from such essential architectural flaws as the lack of hoo...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:32 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: SEO URLs
- Replies: 92
- Views: 133066
Re: SEO URLs
Meta description is not useless, but is becoming less relevant. Google, Bing and Yahoo! don't use meta keywords at all (e.g. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html , http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-no-longer-uses-meta-keywords-tag-27303...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:13 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Provide better ALT Names on images.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 31271
Re: Provide better ALT Names on images.
Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, when I say title tag, I am referring to the title="" within img, e.g. <img src="http://area51.phpbb.com/images/area51.png" alt="Area51 logo" title="Area51 logo" /> Alt is what you see in the placeholder before the image has loaded. Title is what...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:10 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Improvement of the Ban System
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5931
Re: Improvement of the Ban System
Same rationale, even if you are banning a single IP
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:00 pm
- Forum: [3.x][Archive] RFCs
- Topic: [RFC] Human Readable URLs
- Replies: 132
- Views: 236068
I am changing the post title
I recommend this schema home - domain.com/forums/ board - domain.com/forums/forum-title topic - domain.com/forums/topic/topic-title topic - domain.com/forums/topic/topic-title/page post - domain.com/forums/post/post-title SERP - domain.com/forums/search/keywords Examples phpbb.com/community/ phpbb.c...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:26 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: "Official" integration with Akismet
- Replies: 97
- Views: 87923
Re: "Official" integration with Akismet
Perhaps it should be a mod, but it should ship with phpbb...the same way many of the captcha functions ship with it... I think Akismet's utility would increase greatly when tens of thousands of phpbb installations are reporting spammers to Akismet...so that function is no less critical for the commu...
- Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:21 pm
- Forum: [3.x] Discussion
- Topic: Improvement of the Ban System
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5931
Re: Improvement of the Ban System
Banning the entire Ips hes posted from would be cool. That way when you unban the user x, you only ban him once. You wont have to unban his user.... his mail..... his ip and blablablaah... :roll: Theoretically, yes! But you should be more careful while banning IPs and ranges of IPs and should, in f...