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Enlightenment
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Posted on 16 April 2007 @ 21:59

edited 22:00

Anything you see on fluffles.net is developed "in house", the tracker-system, replyengine, forum module, login systems, content management system; everything. I can tell you the amount of time and effort this requires exceeded my expectations considerably, but i do think it was worth it. $:\)$

This topic will try to list any improvements made to the codebase after it's initial launch in april 2007. You're also free to comment on various development issues, but please use the sticky topics for bugreports and featurerequests.

Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

Enlightenment
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Posted on 19 April 2007 @ 01:21

I added gzip-compression to allow non-binary objects (html, css, javascript) to be downloaded faster. This saves me bandwidth and saves you time; the site should load faster.

In addition, i'm working on making fluffles.net more cache-friendly. This improves the ranking with Google and also creates a faster browsing experience. The issues of making a database driven website cacheable are challenging though. For each page, a record needs to be kept when the content was updated. But what about the update tracker on the left? That updates too, making this more challenging. It's not a requirement on the site launch, though.

Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

Johan
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Posted on 4 May 2007 @ 14:24

I see many pages do not send a Modified-header, you might benefit from lower bandwidth consumption and more cache-friendly pages if you send such a header, so browsers and search engines can check whether the page has changed since the last visit, without downloading the whole page again.

But maybe you were already working on that. $:\)$
By the way what forum software do you use, did you also wrote it yourself?

Enlightenment
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Posted on 5 May 2007 @ 14:20

I'm working on that, yes. $:\)$
But it's not easy since a fully database driven website needs it's own mechanic to determine when a page has been modified.

The forum software is a plugin for the CMS this site uses, and as such is also written by me. The forum wasn't really that hard; i found the parsing algorhitms much harder.

Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

Mike Hober
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Posted on 6 May 2007 @ 16:08

Well that surely took a lot of time. I hope it's worth it. Good luck anyways. $:\)$

Enlightenment
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Posted on 25 September 2008 @ 08:16

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Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

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