As some people will realise (and others may not) - the Community Site is built using a collection of Open Source Software - specifically WordPress for the blogging aspect and SimpleMachines Forum for the forum aspect. There’s also a collection of Backend Plugins which we make use of which are Open Source, and some which aren’t - although these are the few as it’s mainly ones we’ve written which won’t be of any use to other people.
In this blog post I am going to be taking a look at some of the ways in which the two pieces of software we use to power the site differ and some of the challenges this has caused us.
Be warned: some bits of this post may be ‘geeky’ and technical and include code examples. Sorry!
Update: Added review of VeriSign’s offering below.
As Kelly mentioned yesterday, I have spent a few hours looking at how other sites have implemented their OpenID interfaces. Yahoo!’s new service was my favourite because it explains everything and makes it very clear and simple. On the other hand it lacks some features that I think are essential. More…
Here at Plusnet we're always trying to use clever open source things to make our lives easier. Sometimes we write our own and make other people's lives easier too!
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