I’ve never really been one for keeping a personal blog. I don’t like the thought that literally anyone could be reading what would essentially be a run down of how I’m feeling, what I’m thinking about and so on. If I wanted someone to know – I could just tell them.
Sure – I’ve made a few blog posts on this very website, about speeds on IPStream Max, the way our IVR works, and so on, but I’ve never really been inclined to keep my own one until now.
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Zemanta is a British/Slovenian startup which has developed a plugin for Wordpress to suggest relevant links, pictures, and tags by analysing the content of a new blog post before it is published. Zemanta was one of the 6 winners of SeedCamp last year and recently announced a $1.5M seed round so someone clearly believes in their product. More…
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!
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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