If you get “Error establishing a database connection” when trying to set up WordPress.org on your Mac, are sure that the database name (DB_NAME), username (DB_USER) and password (DB_PASSWORD) are correct, the solution is very likely that you need to set mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock in /etc/php.ini.
I’ve been looking for sources for (consumer) technology news with a Canadian perspective. Not rivers of news, but filtered streams of information. My in-laws put aside the July/August 2008 issue of Backbone magazine for me. Backbone is delivered with the National Post. It’s quite good and all of their articles are also online.
“Six Apart, Ltd. the world’s largest blogging company”
An article about my friend Joshua McKenty’s BountyUp is in today’s Times Colonist.
Bounty Up is a service to collect online donations for a project, like the wildly successful MyFreeImplants.com, but for the rest of us — I wish I was kiddin’ about that site’s success. The tagline on BountyUp is “Ask for what you want, let the crowd pay for [...]
Read, read, read
Filter, filter, filter
Focus, focus, focus
Do, do, do
Measure, measure, measure
Refine, refine, refine
Only Apple can get away with not telling you how much you actually paid:
The “Order Acknowledgment” email you receive later includes the taxes paid. Not a big deal when purchasing an “APPLE WIRELESS KEYBOARD-USA”, but I would think it would be annoying if you were purchasing a laptop or another big item.
Last night the team pushed the button releasing WordPress 2.6 onto the world. This is a nice polishing release (”stronger better faster”) with a surprising number of features. The features I expect to continue to take the most advantage of are Google Gears, image captions, and plugin update notification. This is a special release [...]
Rannie Turingan created this beautiful video slide show of 20 couples on twenty couches. He is an incredible Canadian photographer, who I previously heard about through mutual friends across the border in San Francisco.
20 x 2 : What’s The Difference? from photojunkie on Vimeo.
I’ve been searching the web to find out if any of the iPhone Applications in the App Store are open source. So far I haven’t found any. How about you?
Is the Apple $99 iPhone developer tax too steep of a barrier?
Will WordPress for iPhone be among the first? The most popular?
Tuesday Update: I somehow missed [...]
I read with a big smile on my face all the stories about iPhone mania. It’s awesome to think of so many people having fun and sharing an experience.
It also reminds me what animals we are. Animals looking for attention, companionship, and to be part of a big social event.
This leads me to also imagine [...]
