What’s this?
Since this is the first post, I might as well explain what this blog is all about.
This is a blog where I will write down my thoughts on various subjects related to (open source) web development, like Python programming, PHP, templates, editors, databases etc. This includes comments on current news, tips&tricks and I will present of some code of my own.
I am doing this mostly because I think it will be fun. Besides that, I hope that I can present some smart tips and useful pieces of code for other developers. Always nice to help. Maybe I can use this blog to market myself too.
Since this is a somewhat personal website, I decided to have my initials in the domain name (hb). Something like hbwire, hbedge or something. And I wanted a .com domain. But all the domains I checked were already taken. Hbpython.com was an option, but it would indicate that this blog is only about Python, which it is not. Then I thought about html/hbml. That would be cool! But also taken. So I ended up with xhbml.com, which I think is a pretty cool domain name and it suggests that the content is related to web development without locking it to a narrow subject. My own eXtensible Markup Language or something. Maybe I’ll figure out a different meaning for it later.
I chose WordPress as the publishing tool for this blog because it has a good reputation, has the desired functionality and was easy to set up. It also helped that I already have a multi domain hosting account with PHP/MySQL support so I could just upload the files and start blogging without any expenses.