I’ve been helping a friend set up a simple website (using WordPress of course), and it’s the first time I’ve used Joyent’s shared accelerators for web hosting. I’m just getting started, but I’m impressed by how sophisticated and professional the solution looks without losing how approachable and open TextDrive is known to be.
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Today is the end of week 4 of coding for WordPress’s Google Summer of Code. It’s hard to believe it has already been 4 weeks, and there are only 2.5 weeks until the half way mark. This year, we’re running a tighter program and I think the results will speak for themselves.
Like last year, I’m mentoring Ronald Heft, Jr’s. He is working on TypePad AtomPub-based Content Importer. Ronald has been good about keeping me updated, asking good questions, proposing solutions, prioritizing issues, and sharing his results with the community.
Today seemed like a good day to take a look at the code and take it for a spin. I identified some issues and Ronald immediately responded with a plan to investigate and address them.
It isn’t quite ready for you to test importing from TypePad, but things are looking good. It’s getting close.
My wife Julia wrote an amazing article titled “Try not to judge“. It starts “Becoming a parent is the most humbling experience I’ve ever gone through.” The article shares some of her experiences and feelings as a new mother. I have a very similar perspective as her. Parenting truly is the most humbling experience.
There are so many possible places to start in supporting Michael Krotscheck‘s statements and pointing out Six Apart VP Anil Dash mistakes. Here is an easy one:
And TypePad simply blows WordPress.com away on SEO when it comes to search engine indexing. TypePad delivers your blog posts directly to Google Reader and My Yahoo and Blogline.
Are there specific issues that WordPress needs to fix to reverse the blow (hard)?
Michael Krotscheck has posted two honest, insightful posts about TypePad and WordPress.
These articles are clearly based on his extensive experience using both platforms.
Every time I’m on the GoDaddy site lately I think Robert Hoekman Jr. must have been talking about them when he wrote:
Today, I was involved in a conversation about a company that intentionally maintains a poor user experience on its commerce site in the interest of driving people to call customer support. Once they call, those crafty customer support people can start in with the up-sells. You may have called to get a problem solved, but their hope is that you’ll spend some cash on a few other things before you hang up.
Or so they all tell me. Does it really ever take 10 days?
I’ve always been good at finding the cracks in things and breaking them wide open. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy testing software. I also have a high threshold for technology acting up and the disposition, skills, and resources (friends) to fix it, but lately I’ve been a little tech frustrated.