Ouch. Sorry, I forgot.

Happy Easter.

Erm… so late…

I’ve update slimbox to 1.3 in FP Crescendo alpha, but I’ve forgot to update its CSS with the last version (required)

You can download it here
http://www.nowherela … .it/misc/slimbox.css

and the ovewrite the one you find in fp-plugins/lightbox/res/

bye :)

yep, FP will stay db-less, in php and free.

For now :P

As you know FlatPress uses Flat-files to store its database.

By the way is obvious that not using a database has its drawbacks.

Most people think that FP will always be slow and that if you know you’ll have a lot of traffic, flat files will be your bottleneck.

At this time, storing a file on a HD is quite as safe than storing a record in a DBMS, as anyway your data will always end on a mass-storage device.

So, this is why we’re saying to go to hell to all the people which can’t afford a good quality paid-hosting.

Guys, you’re old, get in sync with the new web two-point-oh age!

I mean, seriously, what’s your problem?

From now on FlatPress will become an over-bloated full-featured piece of software; it will support instant messaging trough the control panel and Voice-over-IP international calls. Moreover will download news from the most relevant and reliable sources (such as digg) and show you them in a fancy fashion (pink background, with hearts all around the corners).

The new project will be called FlatPress 2.0 and will be based on Microsoft ASP .NET.

Oh, and it will be closed-source.

–
NoWhereMan,
April 1st, 2007

:D

Good news for our (many!) German friends!

Christian, also known as tafkas, has managed to finish a
complete translation for FP-0.703-alpha.

Awesome! Many many kudos to tafkas, who is also largely spreading the FlatPress word[1] :D

Get the German translation here

Setup issues

In the meantime tafkas (isn’t he a good guy?) also helped me with the “can’t setup” thingie that some of you had.

Open up your defaults.php and change this line

define(’BLOG_BASEURL’, ’http://’.$_SERVER[’SERVER_NAME’].
  (($_SERVER[’SERVER_PORT’]!=80)? ’:' . $_SERVER[’SERVER_PORT’] : '’) .
  BLOG_ROOT);

into this

define(’BLOG_BASEURL’, ’http://’.$_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’] .  BLOG_ROOT);

What’s changed ? This way you’re not using anymore SERVER_NAME but HTTP_HOST; server name is more reliable than http host, which relies on the info you send through your browser to tell PHP what’s your own webserver hostname (what a mess, huh?).

Well I need a that info to be correct so that I can generate correct links for the blog and especially have valid form POST handlers.

Well, the problem is that there’s no HTTP_HOST in IIS, so… I think I’ll have to re-add a step in the installer; I’ll see.

Another thing I’ve read is about people who can’t install and that maybe were offended by the FP installer :P

Guys, seriously, what’s so bad about reading the instructions?

It clearly says that you have to click finish to BEGIN :D

Sorry for the joke, it was intended as a measure to prevent people from just blindly clicking next/next/next in the first versions, as you really needed to read. At the moment it wouldn’t be needed anymore, but I find it funny; just think of this: personally sometimes I click the wrong button myself :D this just shows how little we care about things we’re supposed to care about :P

If I’ll have to add this hostname thing you should really pay attention when you install, so do I really have to remove it? :( It’s so funny, LOL

The point is: the more people install it successfully (having read the instructions) the less will be reporting the results of an unsuccessful installation as bugs :)

bye

PS: the exam went well :D

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[1] I was sayng “the ‘FP’ word” but it would have sounded like a dirty thing, LOL