Category Archives: Work

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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Anderson Cooper blogging at WordPress.com

Yesterday, Anderson Cooper 360° Blog relaunched on our WordPress.com. CNN was one of our first VIPublishers and has more than 40 blogs with us — their team is among my favorite to work with.

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We Raised $29.5 Million!

Matt, now Ma.tt, and Toni have respectively written “Act Two” and “Automattic fundraising” about us, Automattic, raising a $29.5 million USD round of financing today. Our friend Om has a head start on journalistic coverage with “WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M“.
By “we” in the title, I mean I have absolutely nothing to do with the financial [...]

“photomatt: who’s eagleclaw?”

I had a great big smile yesterday when eagleclaw entered our chat channel. Eagleclaw is Hailin Wu, a new member of the Automattic family.
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WordPress 2.3 Heroes

September 24, 2007 we released WordPress 2.3, and a little over a month later, this past Friday, we released WordPress 2.3.1.
Yesterday , we, WordPress won Best Open Source Social Networking CMS.
Who are we?
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WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire

Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the [...]

Allow people to delete their comments?

There has been an interesting discussion on WordPress.com about whether people should be allowed to delete comments they have left.

I Want To Be PHP Dangerous

Although, I’m surrounded by PHP masters, and PHP programming isn’t in my job description, I want to be at least “PHP dangerous”.
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A Day Away Is Work That Still Needs Doing

When you work for a small company, a day away is work that still needs doing.
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Mercurial No More

“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
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