Category Archives: Open Source

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 people to be able to have their questions answered one-on-one for  WordCamp. Are you able to volunteer your WordPress expertise? You don’t even have to be [...]

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.

WordPress 2.6 Released!

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 [...]

Open Source in iPhone App Store?

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 [...]

WordPress, Gears, Offline, Privacy

Google Gears has been enabled on WordPress.com for a couple of weeks now for some members, but was only announced this week. Andrew Ozz (azaozz) added this feature a couple of month ago in the development version of self-hosted WordPress. I’ve been using it for about a month, and even though I have a  decent [...]

WordPress GSoC Week 4 and import/mt-atom.php

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 [...]

Michael Krotscheck Takes Six Apart to Task

Michael Krotscheck has posted two honest, insightful posts about TypePad and WordPress.

Friends don’t let Friends use TypePad
WordPress vs. TypePad, Round 2

These articles are clearly based on his extensive experience using both platforms.

5 Years of WordPress!

Today, people all around the world are celebrating that five years ago today the first version of WordPress was released!
Of course, most people’s celebration is limited to Happy Birthday WordPress posts. It’s awesome reading them; most posts (subtlety) demonstrate the authors own participation in WordPress. We’re all the developers of WordPress!

democamp Victoria

The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).

WordPress 2.5 in the Wild!

This morning at WordPress 2.5 release was released live at WordCamp Dallas! So gitty up and upgrade!
When you first try WordPress 2.5, it will feel like it has changed a lot, possibly for the worst (my wife Julia had her concerns). Change is hard. Take a deep breath, and be patient with yourself and WordPress [...]

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