Playing with Facebook comments

It's long time since I disabled comments on my site. I'm testing the Facebook comments plugin now to see if that is a viable alternative. Sure, it only allows to comment if you are signed up at Facebook, but that's still better than no comments at all. Or is it? more...

Feeds enabled again

I had to temporarily disable my website's RSS feeds for a few days, because the virtual host of janschneider.de had taken the whole web server down a few times, due to memory leaks in the installed PHP version. I upgraded to a newer PHP version and installed PHP as a FastGGI module (for the first time). Hopefully everything is smooth and stable again now. more...

Google Co-op search engine integrated

I just replaced my website's search functionality, which was already built on Google, with Google's new Co-op service. I have mixed feelings about the outcoming. more...

Website refactored

During the last few weeks I have revamped most of my website's backend. The new version is online now, and you hopefully don't see any difference, because that was not my intention. Instead I replaced the original CMS with my own scripts and modernized some other stuff. more...

Feed format changed to RSS 2.0

During some work on my website, I seem to accidentally have changed the news feed content a bit, which caused all my old news entries to appear as new stories on Planet PHP. more...

Comments enabled again

I have enabled comments on the news pages again with a basic comment spam protection. more...

Story views embedded in website

As you may have noticed already, the views for the full stories are not opened in a separate window anymore but embedded in the general website layout. more...

Guestbook

A guestbook has been added to the website. Of course powered by a Horde application. more...

New homepage online

Today I have put the new homepage online. more...

janschneider.de being revived

The long overdue redesign of my homepage is slowly leading to results. While there is still lots to do, I feel confident enough to put the new site live. more...