Author Archives: Lloyd

Stuff White Victoria People Like

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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The Survey for People that Make Websites

The A List Apart web professional survey took maybe five minutes to fill out, and the results will be well worth your time.

No Skype Report this User?

“And of course, like its complete lack of real-time customer service, Skype has no “report this user” function. So, you Skypers are on your own.”, Jim Higdon, “What’s the Deal with Skype Spam?”
Having my weekly dose of Skype Spam, I looked for a “report this user” button. Not satisfied with the Block button, I [...]

The family that _____ together _____ together

What is your favorite way to fill in those blanks?
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Wikiality

There is a huge Wikipedia frontier of articles.
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Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

This past week educator Randy Pausch passed away. Randy is an incredible inspiration to me. If somehow you haven’t watched his last lecture, make the time:

His Time Management lecture is also brilliant. If you want to check out one of his many gifts to us check out Alice.
I’m looking forward to reading his book. My [...]

WordPress for iPhone + Source Code Available!

Earlier this week my Automattic colleagues and Effigent released WordPress for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, the source is also available and Trac is set up for reporting bugs and participating in development!
I’ve tried it on my iPod Touch. They’ve done a great job! And are urgently working on fixing the worse bugs.
It’s already in [...]

Not Invited to the Open Web

Some friends have asked if WordPress and Automattic will be participating in the Open Web Foundation. It does look like a brilliant initiative, but as far as I know we weren’t invited. That’s really unfortunate, because I don’t think there could have been a greater gesture of co-operation in the blogging industry than David Recordon [...]

Geniuses for WordCamp SF Bar?

WordCamp San Francisco is less than a month away. This year it’s one day, Saturday, August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
I’m putting together a genius bar for WordCamp where people will have their questions answered one-on-one. Are you able to volunteer your WordPress expertise? You don’t even have to be physically there, but [...]

Mac, WordPress: “Error establishing a database connection”

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.
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