‘Tis the sixth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on my blog. Thanks to my matey Dougal “BlueBeard” Campbell for the right proper plugin o’ th day.
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A few friends and I have started recording a podcast: LoDo Conversations LoDo is the “Lower Downtown” area of Denver, where we all work. This may be the Seinfeld of podcasts; we meander around various topics. We’re going to sit and chat and discuss/debate tech news and issues and make snarky remarks and entertain ourselves…
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the birth of a faster monkey – excellent. ShareThis Taps Vikram Bhan as Chief Product Officer: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies Beep Beep (Part Two) 10 Principles of the PHP Masters – NETTUTS (thanks Matt) Almerica Blog: Podcaster rejeceted because it duplicates iTunes functionality – HORRIBLE! I badly want this…
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Steve O’Grady of RedMonk announced the Progressive License WordPress plugin at WordCamp San Francisco. Progressive License is similar to other plugins that allow you to easily put a license on your content, but it brings a little twist: the ability to change the license applied to the content as the content ages. Steve explains: In…
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Not sure how this will go, but I plan to be there to check it out (and Crowd Favorite is helping sponsor). You can register here.
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TapTheHive – This Post Not Made In Chrome; Google’s EULA Sucks – interesting hubbub about this. Good response from Google, glad the stink was made. YouTube – Shoe Circus – Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates – very funny! (thanks Andrew) Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process – NYTimes.com YouTube – Stewart and Colbert…
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I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release is just the same as 1.5b2, but fixes the duplicate custom field issue for people running WordPress 2.6+. Hopefully this will be ready for…
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This is an explanation of a solution to a specific problem with one of my plugins, but the issue is larger and should be understood by all WordPress plugin developers. Posting the write-up here with the hope it will be useful. The issue is a change in the activity happening in the save_post hook. I’d…
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JabberWerx AJAX has hit the streets! JabberWerx AJAX is a set of thin client JavaScript libraries that can be easily embedded into existing web sites and web applications to add rich push functionality (chat, live content updates, etc.) to them. There are easy to drop in bits for one to one chat (tabbed), group chat…
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gordon.dewis.ca | Bounty offered for a location-based profile manager for the BlackBerry Curve Democratic convention: A stage and a performance fit for a president | World news | The Guardian – view from abroad. Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 9.0 Release Notes – some really great stuff in here, Michael has a good write-up as…
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This weekend’s trip to New York is primarily a chance for me to see a game at Yankee Stadium (Saturday) before they tear it down after the season. However, to book the flight using miles we had to fly in on Thursday instead of Friday, so we got a bonus day to spend doing the…
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I’ve got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release has a couple of bug fixes (from version 1.5b1) and a couple of new features: fixed a logical bug that made the “exclude replies”…
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Muxtape gets shut down. Pandora might get shut down. Everyone is pissed off. A call for patronage. Dumber is Faster with Large Data Sets (and Disk Seeks) Predictions for Apple September Thingy YouTube – 1988 Paul Hunt gymnastics comedy beam routine blackrimglasses – The Frustration of Wanting Something You Can’t Buy How To Launch Software…
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I need to get a projector for the office and I’m having a hack of a time trying to decide on a relatively cost-effective projector that has a 1280 pixel wide resolution (generally 720p). These two are the current leading contenders: Optma HD70 Sharp DT510 I have a Sharp for my home projector and I’m…
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There’s a new version of ShareThis out this evening. This release fixes a bug in version 2.2 where the ShareThis button might not be visible correctly if your WordPress theme shows post excerpts on certain pages. ShareThis is a plugin that makes it easy for your visitors to share your content to other people or…