OK, it's already almost a week since I've been to Blog World Expo... and I thought I should post a quick recap...
First off, Blog World is a fun place to hang out at! I didn't take any pictures of the conference, the expo halls and the crowds but you can still check out this tweetup dinner video to get an idea of what some of us looked like on the last evening.
I have to say I'm very impressed by how twitter allows people to meet up at random places. That's how that after hours dinner took place after the end of the conference.
By the way, if you are on twitter, you might want to follow http://twitter.com/b2evolution ;)
That said, the most interesting part for me was meeting with bloggers and getting feedback on the software!
Even if I wish I had met more b2evolution bloggers, I got a lot of feedback and interesting ideas! There is nothing like real people explaining what they really want to do with their blogs! Believe it or not, a live discussion makes your point way better than a cryptic forum post! ;)
One feature I've worked on since I came back is page level caching. This is a direct result from talking with Nelson Guirado about performance issues on his host. While we cannot control the server load and speed of the hosting companies, one thing we can do is try to make b2evolution use less server resources per page, thus operate faster.
Page level caching goes a long way in that direction. Basically it caches your blog pages so that subsequent results will be served much faster and with significantly less queries to the database. This also drastically cuts down on the load time for your visitors. (You need to not be logged in to experience the cache effect).
Page caching is already available in CVS. It's also activated on b2evlution.net, including this blog you are reading right now. If you see anything odd, by all means, let me know.
For more 3.0 features, stay tuned, either here or on twitter! ;)
i like following your posts to have an insight of what you and b2team are up to and where b2 is going.. -or should i say b3 ? ;)
i hope you did not over-promote the evo there (:, IMO it is better off as is, quite small and cosy in here, on the other hand, i know larger the community is the more developers you have -but who said it was better ? :P- (not to mention anything about revenue and stuff, i can see that you guys (developers both core and the ones in the forums) are doing it heart felt at the first place..
bottomline is, hopefully b2 gets better, not bigger, better&bigger is ok also :P keep up the good work guys
ot: personally i am really looking forward to a stable 3.x version despite the fact that it’s not close enough that i can afford to wait to get my projects started with the evo, so i ll get started with the 2.x or risk it with the 3 (: