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Hi, I'm Bjørn Børresen - a freelance creator of online magic, aspiring entrepreneur and really, really excited!

How about that? I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2001. This blog, launched December 2009, will be a collection of random thoughts about my profession, the tools I use, the people I meet, and anything I like to voice my opinion on. The cool people usually subscribe.

30 July 2010 3 Comments

SEO Lite – The one calorie SEO addon for ExpressionEngine 2.x

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 Github page: http://github.com/bjornbjorn/SEO-Lite/ A SEO module for ExpressionEngine – what does it do? Sure you could add custom fields for this kind of meta data, but [...]

20 July 2010 10 Comments

Why the ExpressionEngine community is a better place to be for a single developer

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 [...]

22 May 2010 9 Comments

Introducing DevKit for EE 2.0

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 [...]

15 January 2010 10 Comments

WooThemes launch of ExpressionEngine themes gets TechCrunch frontpage

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 [...]

3 January 2010 0 Comments

How to move a WordPress installation and keep linkjuice

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 [...]

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24 December 2009 0 Comments

phpODP meets github. lives happily everafter.

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 [...]

4 December 2009 0 Comments

Welcome to the new location of my blog

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 [...]

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27 October 2008 1 Comment

How to stop MSN spam with Pidgin

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 [...]

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25 October 2008 2 Comments

Seagull: Unable to load schema for database and table

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 [...]

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17 June 2008 1 Comment

Someone messed up Firefox Download Day 2008

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 [...]