WordPress community superstar and regular web tools collection contributor Jeff Chandler (jeffr0) recently published a passionate article, “Stop Blaming The WordPress Team“. The article is about plugin developers blaming WordPress for too frequent updates without testing of popular plugins. His conclusion ends “So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is [...]
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Canadian Moose Spotted in Beijing
August 25, 2008 – 9:39 am
For years when people ask if I have any siblings, I’ve said, “Yes, I have a brother. He looks like me, but is a taller, strong version. A real Canadian Moose.” And I’d raise my shoulders and pretend to flex.
My brother living in Beijing was described in a Metro News article as “[sporting] a tall [...]
The TypePad Trap
August 22, 2008 – 8:10 am
So during my talk “Switching to WordPress Painlessly” at WordCamp, (video coming soon!) Six Apart’s Open Platforms Tech Lead David Recordon was in the audience and rather than have a chat with me at any one of the numerous times we passed during the day, he made this cute tweat instead:
There are a couple of [...]
Movable Type and TypePad Passwords in Plain Text
August 21, 2008 – 7:39 am
“If Movable Type was as popular, and under the same amount of scrutiny, I can’t imagine they would still be storing passwords as plain text.” upset at least one reader of “Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress“. His comment wasn’t polite, so I’ll answer without here without publishing it or calling [...]
Movable Type Pro with Comments
August 19, 2008 – 10:11 pm
I’m sure Movable Type Pro is a fantastic product, but when I watched the introduction video in the announcement article I wasn’t feeling the “profoundly powerful new set of capabilities that shows the web where blogging is going next.”
I thought it was ripe for parody, and so here is my voice-over:
Update: Six Apart shared [...]
1st Olympics on Television? America, Of Course! Wikiality
August 12, 2008 – 1:45 pm
“1960 Winter Games. CBS paid $50,000 for the right to broadcast the games in the United States, and this marked the first time the Olympic Games were televised.”
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Sharing Files Online, Box.net
August 6, 2008 – 11:42 am
I was helping a friend last night find a solution to easily share Microsoft Office and PDF documents for review and for sharing with students of his seminars. After looking at what is out there, we settled on box.net.
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Delicious Finally Fixes Most Blatent Usability Issue
July 31, 2008 – 12:59 pm
It’s web address. Although, Delicious Social Bookmarks has had the delicious.com URL as long as I can remember (3yrs?), it’s only now retiring del.icio.us in favor of it.
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Stuff White Victoria People Like
July 30, 2008 – 8:44 pm
Stuff White People Like is coming to Victoria!
Victoria is one of the stops on the book tour. Get your copy of the fresh minted book signed by Christian Lander at Chapters on August 10th, 2:00 p.m. He’ll be in Vancouver a couple of days later.
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