Ok, my blog is back online after about a year in the meanders of my hard drive. Most of the stuff here is probably out of date, such as the Worpdress plugins, most of them written for pre-1.5 versions. As I don't use WP anymore, I'm unlikely to come up with more stuff, unless I decide to come back to it at some stage.
I think I will now write about other things, what exacly I'm not sure yet...
I finally updated my other site, salamba.info to Wordpress 1.5 and there's no doubt about it, it's good, very good. The feature I really like is the ability for the plugins to have a configuration page. That was really missing from the previous verions.
Another thing is of course the ability to create "static" pages, for fixed content, although you need a separate template for them. This actually is the minus side for me, the complexification (is that even a word?) of the template system: much more flexible but much more work... 
" />
Super, je viens de finir un projet qui me tenait coeur, un petit
In case you're using a syndication software that can read RSS2.0 feeds, and if you don't like the layout of this blog 
I offer syndication feeds for its content as well as the comments posted on the posts. You can get feeds for the comments on individual posts from the link at the top of the comments section:
The main feeds are:
The entries rss feed
and the comments feed.
Ok, I finally got the captcha working. Wasn't that hard, but it was more the concept that was kind of eluding me... Where to send the data from the image and from the text box, how to compare them and so on.
I like the way my little script works, because if for whatever reason the commenter didn't fil the captcha field properly, they wil be sent an email containing a link allowing them to publish their own comment. I'm wondering if spammers would learn how to make their robots do that... Anyway, doesn't matter because I haven't had a *single* comment spam since I changed over from wordpress yesterday. Wait and see, I guess.
So this is it. I've been working on it for the past few days, and I'm quite happy with what I've got now. Of course, I'm sure many of you will not feel that way. I myself feel somewhat like having betrayed Wordpress...
Anyway, the move is made now and I don't think there's any going back. I feel such a freedom from being able to hack the code in any (bad) way I want, it was like a breath of fresh air for me.
There are still a lot of features left to implement, like pingback (that one is a toughie!), a proper calendar, ideally using XMLHttpRequests, comments feeds, Atom feeds and a few more things. I would like some suggestions from readers as well, to see what can be done.
For now though, trackbacks should be functionnal (feel free to test it) and the RSS feed for articles is available. I reused some code from a few wordpress plugins, and I would like to give credit to Michel Fortin for Markdown, to Phu Ly & Dunstan Orchard & Michael Heilemann for Dunstan's Time of day and Time Since, to Daryl for his Amazon wishlist plugin, although I don't know if that will stay there for long, and to Bitflux for the LiveSearch functions. Thanks go out to all of them.
The Wordpress plugins are of course still available at the old URLs, although a few of them (especially the style_chooser, since the advent of themes) are now obsolete.
Anyway, hope you like the new design and all... I am waiting for your suggestions, bug reports, rants, and so on.
Since the release of Wordpress 1.5, I've been wondering what to do with this blog.
I looked at upgrading, but that would mean a few days of work to have the blog the way I like it again. I hacked WP 1.2 so much that it would be very difficult to just upgrade and expect everything to go smoothly. Also I asked to myself: do I really need a blogging tool to do coffee as well as allow me to publish stuff easily. I guess I mean that Wordpress now has many more features than I have use for, and I don't really see the point of it.
So there you have it, I decided to design a blogging software from scratch. Yes, it takes some work, but maybe not much more as what I put in to hack wordpress. It's a great learning exercise anyway...
I just got myself one of the longest email addresses of the world, over at ABC... Whatever(via)!
I just couldn't stop laughing when I saw their 'sales pitch' on the home page, so I just had to open an account with them.
So, feel free to write me at jfoucher@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
Ooops, looks like that address is too big for my layout! ;)
Thanks to DrDave and his spamkarma plugin, I have been able to re-open comments without fear of having to moderate an insane number of them. Wordpress is quite good, but it still takes time to delete hundreds of comments.
So there you go, have fun writing real comments!
I will see quite quickly if this plugin is as good as it's supposed to be. In the meantime don't hesitate to send me a message if your comment is deleted.
This plugin allows you to show some text in 'hacker language', as shown below. The install instructions are repeated below in clear text if you have trouble reading this...
To install this plugin, download the gzip archive, unpack the hacker.php file within and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory.
Once you have done this, activate it from the admin interface.
Any text between
That's it ! Pretty useless, but enjoy it anyway...
One big limitation of this version is that you can only have one
Edit: The example doesn't work anymore because I'm not using Wordpress at this time. However, you can still download it (I hope ;).
This is Jonathan Foucher's new blog, using a home grown content management system. It is a live experiment in web application design, so things are going to break, there will be bugs and things will generally not work as expected. So good luck ;)
