I’ve added a few more metro areas that were requested for GameTonight: Chicago Cincinnati (also available at /cincy) Los Angeles (also available at /la) Washington DC (also available at /dc) I hadn’t added Chicago initially because the venues for the various teams are not as close to each other as they are in Denver, Minneapolis,…
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Today we did our first team WordPress code review. Even though we build on WordPress MU as much or more than we have with single user WordPress, we all wanted to get a better sense of how that functionality had been merged into 3.0. It went pretty well I think. We met at the office,…
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A few months ago, while driving in to downtown Denver: Her: Should we take the Park Ave exit or 20th st? Me: I don’t know, is there a game tonight? Her: I don’t know. Me: Hmm, there should be a web site for that… …and now there is. Introducing GameTonight.in, a single serving web site…
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I released a new version of our WordPress HelpCenter plugin last week in order to update information in it to reflect our expanded hours. I realized that this might cause some concern for any of our affiliates. One of the things we offer to our affiliates is a customized version of the HelpCenter plugin that…
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I am back from my second SxSW experience. Here are some notes and thoughts. Use the time away from your daily routine, concerns and responsibilities to think about what you do in different ways. For me this was an opportunity to think about my business and technology in general in a more abstract and strategic…
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I’m very pleased that we have reached the point with WordPress HelpCenter where we need to add another developer to our team. We’re looking for someone with a broad range of WordPress, PHP, XHTML and CSS experience, basic server configuration experience, and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. Ideally we’d like to add someone…
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When we built the backup system we need for our clients at Crowd Favorite, we did so with some additional ideas in mind. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve extended it so that you can use it with your clients too: introducing our white label program. The white label program is very simple. We provide…
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I’ve released a new version of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a full 2-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release addresses two bugs: The use of the native json_decode() function, required by the changes in WordPress 2.9 (version 2.1) created a problem for users with servers running 32-bit PHP.…
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I recently put new releases of my Twitter Tools plugin – basically patches so that it would work in WordPress 2.9 on versions of PHP prior to 5.2. This is an interesting situation, where I hadn’t really done anything wrong in the plugin and the WP core team hadn’t really done anything wrong in the…
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Child theme support has landed in SVN for Carrington. The way it is implemented allows child themes to add templates to the parent theme (adding more supported conditions for post types, comments, categories, etc.), not just replace existing templates. If you are building themes on Carrington, check this out and provide feedback before it’s tagged and released.
This post is part of the project: Carrington Core. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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Version 2.1 of my Twitter Tools plugin is now available. Twitter Tools creates a two-way integration between your Twitter account and your WordPress blog. You can send your blog posts to Twitter and bring your tweets back to your blog for display, archiving, or creating posts from them. This version has a bunch of changes…
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I often get questions about WordPress security and how best to manage WordPress upgrades. These issues are closely related, and I’ve thought about them a good deal over the years (and I’ve been doing this long enough to have experimented with a variety of approaches). These are the approaches I am currently using and recommend…
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Welcome to my fifth annual year in review post. Last year I wrote this as an intro to my annual retrospective: This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. It’s a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and…
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I’d been putting off building an abstracted search query library for a while because I knew it was a big concept with a lot of options and was going to be hard to get it organized right. When I finally built it, I ended up taking an approach I hadn’t used before, and I’m really…
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I’m declaring the first annual Crowd Favorite cookie exchange a smashing success. Everyone presented their cookies and shared anecdotes about their creation – there were some pretty good stories. Shawn posted a photo of his haul here.