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 [...]
By Lloyd
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Posted in WordPress
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Also tagged Andrew Ozz, Brad Neuberg, Browser Add-Ons, Firefox, google, Google Gears, Internet Explorer, Online Privacy, WordPress, WordPress Performance, WordPress.com
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Anil Dash has written an article titled “A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide” on the official movabletype.com blog. It is full of misdirection, and, thankfully, overall it hasn’t been well received. What excites me is it has sparked some excellent discussions, and it’s a great launching point for more conversations.
I whole heartily recommend you try [...]
By Lloyd
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Posted in WordPress
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Also tagged A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide, Anil Dash, Automattic, Bias, Blogging Software, Boris Mann, Byrne Reese, Collaboration, Darren Hoyt, Don Dodge, Expression Engine, Jeff Jones, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Sippey, Movable Type, Raincity Studios, Shelley Powers, Six Apart, WordPress, WordPress 2.5
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The Google Summer of Code is here again. I submitted our WordPress application today. Last year was awesome, and I think this year will be even way better!
By Lloyd
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Posted in WordPress
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Also tagged Automattic, Chris DiBona, Google Summer of Code, gsoc, GSoC2008, Jacob Santos, Leslie Hawthorn, Matt Mullenweg, Mentors, Ronald Heft Jr, Students, WordPress, WordPress Partcipants
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February 21, 2008 – 9:47 am
My friend Zbigniew Braniecki, long time Mozilla participant, has left Flock and is now employed by Mozilla. I was waiting for him to publicly share this news and now he has with “Joining Mozilla!“.
My first project is to help Mozilla Central/Eastern European communities and raise the awareness of what’s going there in Mozilla project. [...]
By Lloyd
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Posted in Firefox, Flock, Mozilla
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Also tagged Axel Hecht, Bugzilla, Chris Messina, Clayton Stark, David Ascher, Evangelism, Flock, FOSDEM, Gandalf, Internalization and Localization, Jane Finette, John Lilly, MoCo, Mozilla, Mozilla Europe, My World, Open Projects, Pascal Chevrel, Paul Kim, Seth Bindernagel, Sociology, Tristan Nitot, Zbiggy, Zbigniew Braniecki
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February 14, 2008 – 1:47 pm
And why you don’t want to work at Microsoft.
I can’t think of a better use of the term “creative capitalism” than to apply it to open source businesses.
February 8, 2008 – 6:12 pm
http://www.OSWD.org/ - “Open Source Web Design” led by Francis J. Skettino. Free web design templates.
Unfortunately, I like open source in my open source.
By Lloyd
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Posted in Open Source
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Also tagged Andreas Viklund, creative commons, Creative Commons Attribution, Derek K. Miller, Francis J. Skettino, Free Software Definition, Free web design templates, FreeCSSTemplates.org, gpl, GPL v2, Open Source Design, Open Source Web Design, OSWD, themes.wordpress.net, WordPress Themes
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February 1, 2008 – 9:55 am
When in conversations with people championing freedom causes using Google Blogger or Six Apart TypePad, I share that myself and many people find it upsetting that they do so using proprietary software.
The inconvenience and their frustrations with software usually leaves them too afraid to even consider switching to another publishing platform.
It is ok that it [...]
January 31, 2008 – 12:44 pm
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes. It is a great interview!
By Lloyd
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Posted in Web
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Also tagged 60 Minutes, All Things D, Ari Steinberg, Beacon, CBS, Danny Sullivan, Dave Mcclure, Facebook, Kara Swisher, Lesley Stahl, Mark Zuckerberg, social networking, The Wall Street Journal, video
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January 18, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Where 100% and fully are not quite the definitions I’m used to.
Yes, Movable Type Open Source should be celebrated! It is awesome that it already includes everything that was released as Movable Type 4.0 and more. As I understand it there should soon be a stable release. But I am confused by the conversations I [...]
December 11, 2007 – 2:02 pm
Yesterday, I did an install of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on the Dell Dimension E520. The install went well; I haven’t experienced any hardware problems (yet), but I’m near tears for all the (minor) experience issues.