Tag Archives: WordPress

New Project to Find Movable Type Community’s Melody

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Lloyd

Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of Melody and the Open Melody Software Group.
Melody is a new WordPress competitor — bring it!
Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), Byrne Reese writes “[the project's] … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Also tagged Byrne Reese, CMS, Content Management System, Jesse Gardner, Mark Carey, Movable Type Custom Fields, Movable Type Open Source, mtos, Open Melody, Open Melody Software Group, Open Source, Open Source Movement, Serdar Yegulalp, Six Apart, Tim Appnel, WordPress Foundation | 4 Comments

WordPress.com Still Blocked in China

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Lloyd

I’ve seen some reports lately that “WordPress is blocked in China”, including some Mashable articles. To clarify, it’s WordPress.com that is blocked, not all sites that run self-hosted WordPress.
Mashable’s “China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)” seems to suggest that the … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress, WordPress.com | Also tagged AFP, Censorship, China, Chinese Government, Dangerous Journalism, Great Firewall of China, Guy Newey, Journalism, Matt Mullenweg, Public Security Bureau, Reporters without Borders, Reporting, RSF, Stan Schroeder, Tor, Tor Project, WordPress.com | 5 Comments

SourceForge Projects Moving to WordPress

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Lloyd

Open source project hosting has long been a topic that interests me. I stopped recommending venerable SourceForge.net some years ago, as it’s proprietary stack (open source prior to 2001) became crufty and fell behind some of the newer and more … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Software Development, WordPress | Also tagged dotProject, Git, MediaWiki, Mercurial SCM, Open Source, Open Source Project Hosting, phpBB, Software Development, Software Development Tools, SourceForge.net, subversion, TaskFreak!, Trac | Leave a comment

WordCamp SF Here I Come!

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Lloyd

Only two more weeks until WordCamp San Francisco 2009. I can’t wait!
This is the original WordCamp. Every year has been fantastic! There is no other event that brings so many of WordPress’s elite together.
They’re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Andy Peatling, Ann Oyama, barcamp, Chris Pirillo, Conference, Dave Gray, Dave Moyer, Douglas Hanna, Event, John Lilly, Matt Cutts, Matt Mullenweg, Open Source, Open Space methodology, Philip Greenspun, Scott Porad, Steve Souders, Tara Hunt, The 4-Hour Workweek, The Whuffie Factor, Tim Ferriss, unconference, WordCamp, WordPress Community, WordPress Designers, WordPress Developers, WordPress Plugin Developers, WordPress Themers | 5 Comments

Watch Videos Online? I Download Later When the Tubes are Clear

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Lloyd

I’m a web worker. My work is online, and it all slows to a snail’s pace if I’m streaming or downloading a video.
I have “High-Speed Xtreme-I” which promises “up to” a-lot, but the metered download rate is much, much lower … Continue reading →

Posted in Web | Also tagged Entertainment, High-Speed Xtreme-I, iTunes, Mac OS X, Media, metered internet, Miro, Movies, Online Video, Shaw High-Speed Internet, throttled internet, Videos, Web Worker, WordPress.tv | 9 Comments

Mozilla SEO & Firefox Tips & Tricks Web Page Bugs

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Lloyd

Update Thurs, May 7th (2 days later): Mozilla is working on the issue for Mozilla.com “Bug 491985 – Title tag changes for select product pages on Mozilla.com to help SEO rank “. To clarify, the improvement is more search … Continue reading →

Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | Also tagged Copywriting, Firefox Tips & Tricks, Mozilla, SEO, Title Tag, WordPress.com | 4 Comments

Learning by doing something else

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Lloyd

There is a small project that I’m working on with a friend, and since for years I’ve wanted to try Python…
I find two of the greatest assistants in learning and developing expertise in something are:

Helping someone else (teaching).
Using something else … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning | Also tagged Learning, php, Python, Web Development | 3 Comments

Official WordPress Logos and Fan Art

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Lloyd

I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
MT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Adam Freetly, Allan Fernandes, Andrew Dela Serna, Avijit Paul, Dan Philibin, Jason Santa Maria, Lorelle VanFossen, Matt Mullenweg, Matt Thomas, WordPress Art, WordPress Buttons, WordPress Fan Art, WordPress Logos | 13 Comments

Interested in Freeing Yourself from the TypePad Trap?

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Lloyd

My co-worker Noel Jackson, tired of hearing me whine about the Six Apart TypePad Trap, has created a WordPress importer mashing together the MT formatted export file (missing permalinks) and the broken TypePad AtomPub (missing comments and trackbacks). We are … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Also tagged Automattic, Data Portability, Export, Import, Importer, Noel Jackson, Open Web, Ronald Heft Jr, Six Apart, TypePad Trap, Web Standards, WordPress.com | Leave a comment

WordCamp Shirt, Do You Do Spelling Bees?

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Lloyd

One of the many things that Kathy Seirra’s session at WordCamp SF 2008 has me thinking about is what does WordPress say about us using it. And what do WordPress shirts say about the us wearing them.
About half way through … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Alan Levine, Branding, Chris Heuer, Conversations, Dane Hurtubise, Francine Hardaway, Guy Kawasaki, Kathy Seirra, Kris Krug Photo, Michael Cummings, Schwag, Scott Beale Photo, Spelling Bee, WordCamp, WordCamp SF, WordCamp SF 2008, WordCamp Shirts, WordPress Shirts, WordPress Shwag | 6 Comments