bybjorn.com | Bjørn Børresen – freelance web developer

I recently had to write a webservice in PHP that were to be used by iPhone/Android apps to post data and images to. With standard HTTP POSTS I’ve usually just created a quick dummy html to post data to the server to test, but this time I had to do some research on how to [...]

I just pushed a HTML5 template called “Minimal HTML5 iPad Offline Cache Test” to github: https://github.com/bjornbjorn/minimal_html5_offline_test Basically it’s a demo of a simple webpage that can be cached offline on an iPad. It also contains the meta tags required to make it work as a so-called “webclip”, that is you can add it to the [...]

It’s probably about time to let my subscribers know that I’ve started blogging over at the AddonBakery Blog – so all posts which relate to my ExpressionEngine Addons will end up there (instead of here). If you have an interest in getting the latest news about SEO Lite, Simple Registration, et al. you should subscribe [...]

For those who don’t quite understand the title; Automattic is the company behind the world’s favourite blogging engine1 – WordPress, and EllisLab are creators of fine products such as CodeIgniter – and, the commercial CMS ExpressionEngine. Now that you have the basics, the title will make sense later. MacDailyNews moves from EE to WP The [...]

Today cityzenllc asked a question on Twitter about setting up EE w/subdomains. The “Basecamp Style Subdomains With CodeIgniter” over at NetTuts was tweeted and retweeted all over the place, or maybe just twice, but anyway – this is supereasy in EE, and can be done by adding just a couple of lines to index.php: What [...]

I just pushed a new version of SEO Lite to github and it has some added goodies, among other things these parameters: Parameters url_title; retrieve by url_title (often found as a url segment) entry_id; retrieve by entry_id use_last_segment = ‘yes’; pure magic! (it will use the last segment, this is useful if you have the [...]

A while back I released DevKit for ExpressionEngine using the module “SEO Lite” as an example. Now this module is ready for download! Click here to download SEO Lite Full documentation: SEO Lite documentation A SEO module for ExpressionEngine – what does it do? Sure you could add custom fields for this kind of meta [...]

There’s probably a lot of good reasons to go with WordPress, but if you’re a single developer ExpressionEngine might be worth considering. Please allow me to present (*drum roll*) “The Top 10 Reasons The EE Community Is A Better Place To Be For A Single Developer / Entrepreneur” 1. You Don’t Have To Worry About [...]

I’ve spent the last 8 months developing modules (and templates) for EE 2.0. Pretty early I got annoyed by some of the redundant manual tasks I had to do over and over again .. so I started creating some addons to help me out. Now I’ve bundled (some of that) functionality in this thing I’ve [...]

Themes have moved   Please note that these themes have now moved to ThemeForest, you can find them here: ExpressionEngine Themes @ AddonBakery Ok, I’m kind of busy these days so I haven’t got time for the most elaborate posts — but anyway, as some of you might know I’ve teamed up with WooThemes to [...]