We’ve launched an affiliate program and a public knowledge base at WordPress HelpCenter (WPHC), two things that I’m very excited about. We’re getting closer and closer to my overall vision for the service. Affiliate Program The affiliate program is really core to how we want the HelpCenter to work (note: anyone can join the affiliate…
October, 2009
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I’ve experienced a weird and unfortunate chain reaction over the last 48 hours. A flood of comment spam Akismet not accepting connections from my server1 and/or not catching the spam. UPDATE: this wasn’t Akismet’s fault, see bottom of post. The email notifications from all the spam comments sending to my mail account My mail host…
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Sending .zip files around via email should be easy – this has been as basic as it gets and has been for years. It seems that many Exchange administrators decide to block emails with .zip file attachments. This it the digital equivalent of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If your email program or…
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I wonder how Cleveland fans feel about the game 1 matchup in this year’s World Series. Discuss…
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blackrimglasses – Life and Stuff – I’ve had a “Blogging? Oh yeah that was something I had time to do before the baby.” post in the back of my head for a while. hatful of hollow – A Farewell to ORMs – Some really great stuff in the comments as well. (thanks Charles) Rands In…
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I’m selling my Smart Car. It’s been a great commuter, but with the baby it’s just not practical anymore. See more photos here. The car is in pristine condition, it’s the 2008 Passion (loaded) model with sport (paddle) shifters. I got 46 miles per gallon no matter how hard I drove it. Has the tachometer…
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The WordPress HelpCenter is hiring another web developer. Due to the nature of the work we do at the HelpCenter, we’re looking for someone with a broad range of PHP, XHTML and CSS experience and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. This will be a full time position with benefits, and we are open…
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A couple of years back I took stock of my fitness and made some changes to lose about 30 pounds. This summer, especially with schedules out of whack after the baby arrived, I noticed myself backsliding a little and wanted to fix it before things got out of hand. Quick recap: Weight in Nov. 2006:…
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Over the last five years I’ve heavily used MailTemplate and shadowClipboard. Both are great utilities, and neither works right on Snow Leopard (and no upgrades in sight). As a result, I’ve found workarounds. Rather than move to different utilities for these features, I’ve tried to simplify. I’m already hopelessly dependent on LaunchBar, so coming up…
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Palm’s WebOS Developer Announcements – this is excellent news, now they just need to allow distribution without Palm as the intermediary. Vin Dieselgram (via InsoOutso) – ok, that’s funny. Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Tony Ross’s “Distributed Extensibility Submission” – good stuff, as usual. Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital…
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Tweetie 2 has hit the twittersphere to universal praise and rejoicing. I have to admit it was one of the first app upgrades I’ve been excited to install in a while. After playing with it for a little while, I can say that it’s a great upgrade, more polished, lots of great new features that…
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I know I’ve been complaining about this for a week, but I’m a bit put out that Denver completely skipped October and headed straight into November. Yes, I know it will be back in the 60s next week: but I miss our normal fantastic October weather, and all this snow is doing 3 things: Making…
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RIM Working On A Native BlackBerry Twitter Client – RIMarkable – there goes the 3rd party dev market. Tweetie 2 on the way – looking forward to this. jwz – My ongoing Kafka-esque nightmare of dealing with Palm and their App Catalog submission process. – so much for my interest in the webOS. Rands In…
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As I briefly noted on Twitter, I will typically install everything fresh when setting up a new Mac. There are a variety of reasons why I think this is a good idea, but here is one you might not always think of. When you do a fresh install of applications that you use frequently, you…