As Textpattern 4.3.0 draws nearer to a release, it’s time to look forward a little to Textpattern 5. This weblog entry holds important information — especially for plugin authors and admin themers — to help gear up now for the proposed changes in Textpattern 5.

Most, if not all changes in the parser affect its speed. Generally speaking, more features means lower speed, but optimizing other parts of the parser can compensate this. In this second article about the new parser in Textpattern CMS 4.0.7, I’ll discuss the various changes to the parser, the impact they have on parsing speed and how you can optimize templates for speed.

There’s one thing that any software developer, experienced or noob, would tell you: The real difficulties in software design aren’t buried deeply inside an Algorithm Bible/Quran/Torah/{insert your manifest of choice here}.

As a pragmatic result of our long-lasting struggle to tame the touchy Subversion host we finally gave in and moved“our code repository to Google Code.

I’ve been speaking with Matt Mullenweg from WordPress about establishing a common set of clarifications and assumptions for RSS 2.0 feeds.

As most of you interested in web design have no doubt noticed A List Apart 4.0 went live yesterday.

A few things your inner geek has always longed to know about Textpattern (or maybe not).