bybjorn.com | Bjørn Børresen – freelance web developer

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 create theme packages for my publishing engine of choice; ExpressionEngine.

Yesterday was a busy day since we launched it, and thanks to adii and [...]

Recently I went freelance and decided to rebrand myself – thus the need to move my blog from one domain to another. Of course, that meant moving the content to a new Wordpress install, but also – since my old blog had a handy pagerank of 5 and lots of incoming linkjuice – I needed [...]

A couple of generations ago (at least in “internetz-years”) I wrote a tiny php script called phpODP that would let people put the content of the dmoz directory on their own site. Now, I know what you’re thinking – no dmoz didn’t have a problem with that – they even have a category for sites [...]

Hi there. If you’re getting this through my feedburner feed you should note that the new address for my blog is bybjorn.com – check it out, yay!

What I’ve done is used to combined magic of Wordpress import, to move my content from bie.no, and Woothemes to get a new look.

Since I’m a freelancer now I [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Pidgin is an open source Instant Message client which supports MSN, ICQ, the jabber protocol (which means GTalk) etc.

After installing it however, I started getting a lot of MSN spam. You know, IM’s from random people telling me to visit places where I could gamble with my money, [...]

I just copied a Seagull project I created a while back to a new development server to do some testing. Copying the www.mydomain.conf.php to localhost.conf.php and changing the database settings to connect to my local database resulted in this when trying to log in:

DataObjects_Usr: ERROR: Unable to load schema for database and table (turn debugging [...]

I just got this e-mail:

Great! – I thought. I enjoy making history.

So I click the link, and what do I see …

Notice the <<<< .mine === etc.?

It’s Subversion tags letting someone know that when they did an “svn update” on the Firefox Download Day 2008 index page – someone else had edited it already so [...]

Ok, this post had some info about switching to ExpressionEngine since WP was so insecure.

It turns out my WP install was hacked and the content here was replaced by lots of spam links. I don’t know how to get the content back (unless it was indexed somewhere, took a quick google but didn’t find [...]

This is a script we use on the norwegian community root.no to show the latest messages from our IPB forum in our Wordpress blog template.

When I wanted the skitX blog converted from Serendipity to ExpressionEngine I asked around for an MT Export script for s9y. There was none, so I decided to create it for myself.

For those of you who don’t know, MT stands for Movable Type and is SixApart’s blogsystem. It’s a pretty simple plain-text format which many [...]