Devin and I have discussed the difference between Crowd Favorite and a startup quite a bit over the last few months. As he notes, we believe the primary difference is work/life balance.
October, 2012
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I’ve been using the beta and have found it to be the best Mac calendar app I’ve used.
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Congratulations to BGR on the re-design, I know Corey was been working hard on this for a long time now. Check out the comments for the standard hilarious “why wasn’t I consulted?” complaints.
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I definitely appreciate motivated job applicants (the more effort you show in your application, the more time we are likely to invest with you), but if you walk into a small development shop without an invitation or appointment it’s not likely to go the way you hoped. People are busy doing stuff and there likely…
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Some seriously great stuff here (thanks Mark).
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When someone asks if they can “Skype me” I assume that means voice. And most of the time,
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Prompted by @nacin I upgraded my home network tonight (Asus RT-N66u + gigabit switch). So worth it! http://t.co/LqNmmpkC
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One of the important changes in Twitter Tools 3.0 is the way that tweet data is stored in your WordPress database. Instead of writing that content in a separate database table the tweets are now stored as a custom post type within the posts table. This gives us all sorts of great benefits: it utilizes…
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I released Twitter Tools 3.0.1 last night to address all confirmed bugs in version 3.0: Respect timezone offset for new posts from tweets Ensure categories and tags are set properly for new posts from tweets Make enabled/disabled accounts more visually explicit Use proper URL example in help text Want more details? Check out the diff.…
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(Thanks Mark)
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Wherein I attempt to answer some of the more common questions I’ve seen surrounding yesterday’s launch of Twitter Tools 3.0. Why am I forced to use the Social plugin to use Twitter Tools? I assure you, no one is forcing you to do anything. Why is Twitter Tools now dependent on Social? When Twitter moved…
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The best part of any conference is the people; with Monktoberfest the last two years RedMonk has set the bar incredibly high. For the second year in a row, Monktoberfest (and it’s stewardship by my friend Steve) has thoroughly impressed me. As most of the attendees are “friends of RedMonk” it’s not surprising that they…
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When I first started posting to Twitter I soon realized that I wanted to keep a copy of that content. Twitter Tools was born shortly thereafter. Since that time Twitter has evolved, WordPress has evolved, and my vision of how best to integrate the two has evolved with them. Twitter Tools 3.0 is a complete…
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You had me at Michael Lopp; Alex Payne was just piling on.
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Sometimes we get applications from devs who cite Joomla-powered sites among their examples. I look at the sites and feel so bad for them…