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Today I start a new gig. I’ll be teaming up with Alex King (of WordPress fame) to manage the WordPress HelpCenter. During the past several years I’ve had increasing interest in working with WordPress full-time. It started with me developing themes and plugins for my own site then branched into customizations for clients and over [...]
Roughly 9-10 months ago, I switched from my iPhone to an enV2 with Verizon. AT&T’s coverage was just horrible, basically making my iPhone an iPod Touch with an expensive monthly subscription cost. Anyhow, the enV2 served me well, but I got to where I was needing to keep a closer eye on some things (WordPress [...]
Backing up your site is something that is very important to do. You never know when you might make a change that you need to revert, or you install a plugin that goes haywire harming your site. A reliable backup routine that is put into practice early and often is always a good idea. I [...]
It’s still very much in the preliminary stages, but I’m hoping to host a WordCamp for the area. I won’t rehash everything I wrote in my post over on the official website, but I suggest you read it and then take the survey if you’re interested in attending.
WordPress Filter is now listed on the WordPress Plugin Directory. So you’ll be able to get your 1-click upgrade goodness and all that fun stuff. Just figured it was worth mentioning :)
I’m happy to annouce WordPress Filter v1.0 (Release Candidate 1). I decided to make this just RC1 because I would like to have some folks help test it out before I move it securely into v1.0. What is WordPress Filter you ask? Well, continue reading for the introduction then check out the project page. Introduction [...]
Over the past weeks/months I’ve become more interested in making sure my systems are properly backed up. Recently I mentioned I wanted to detail my setup in a post. It’s been awhile since I’ve suffered a significant hardware failure (knock on wood) so part of me thinks I’m “due” for one. Here is my basic [...]
PHP Simple Cache is pretty self decribing. It is a simple cache built for PHP powered websites that I have decided to release as open source. It has a fairly narrow audience. The most applicable website I can imagine for its usage would be: Powered by PHP Relatively static content, but still driven by a [...]
WordPress 2.7 is out, and while I’m still playing with it, I do like what I see. Here’s a video in case you’d like to see some more regarding it:
Jeremy has responded to my post regarding the use of Twitter for Conversations. It seems I need to clarify things a bit further, so let’s get down to business. Jeremy seems to go off on what I’d call a tangent (although apparently he deems as merely layers in the conversation) with his post. my concern [...]
So earlier today I allowed myself to be pulled into a debate over Twitter. Generally speaking, I am not a fan of using Twitter as a conversation tool. I decided (as indicated in my comment on twitter) that the conversation would be better held in blog post format. A couple of ground rules for this [...]
A co-worker recently purchased a new MacBook. I sent him this email just as a quick-start to help him get going. I thought I’d share it here: Some hot keys you’ll probably want to know: (fyi Cmd/Command = Apple key, you’ll barely ever use Alt or Control anymore) Cmd-Q: Quits current application. Just so you [...]
I’ve been doing lots of research lately on efficiencies you can put in place on your website to make it more efficient from a load time perspective, which gives a better experience for your visitors. The problem is none of the sources I’ve been reading from seem to want to put it all together in [...]
My thoughts regarding my new MacBook.
Whether it will need to come from the developing world or not, I overall agree with everything Shawn says in this video and he does a good job of articulating it. I’ve often felt that we’ve “lost” something in the recent decades, especially here in America. For some reason we just aren’t seeing fundamentally new [...]
I really agree with the below quote from Fred Wilson. The reason the movie & music industry keep finding themselves in a losing battle is because they aren’t listening to their customers and providing them with what they want and how they want it. If they ever start doing that, I really believe they’ll see [...]
WordPress 2.6 has been released. Be sure to upgrade!
Yet another feature not available to their paying customers. /sigh Update 6/13/08: They’ve now enabled this feature for my account. Yay.
Just wanted to comment on two blog posts/articles I just read. The first is from All Things Digital and can be found here. Basically the article is a somewhat condemning look at the iPhone. He comments a lot about traveling with the iPhone internationally and also about the keyboard, etc. Some of the stuff he [...]
Stories like this are really starting to get on my nerves. All Things Digital brings us a story about Universal Music deciding to not renew its contract with iTunes, and instead continuing with an at-will style of selling. From the sounds of it, they want to see things like variable pricing of music put in [...]
The iPhone keyboard is growing on me slowly. I’m able to type with two thumbs in landscape mode and I’m pretty close to it in portrait mode as well. In fact, I’m typing this entry on my iPhone and its not that painful really. I certainly wouldn’t want to write a long entry on it [...]
So, I don’t really keep it to myself that I’m not a fan of 37Signals. However, they did just do something pretty cool. They released Ta-da List for the iPhone. One thing the iPhone doesn’t have is a to-do list. It doesn’t import tasks from iCalendar either. I do think this is a win-win of [...]
This is a continuation of my review of the iPhone from earlier. I was able to get an adapter to let my iPhone work with my current FM Transmitter setup in my car. It cost me $10. On the way home from the store I plugged it in and started playing music and it’s just [...]
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