Author Archives: Dougal

Dougal is a web developer for Crowd Favorite, and a “Developer Emeritus” for the WordPress platform. When he’s not coding in PHP or Perl, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.

Back from WordCamp Birmingham 2008

10/1/2008 – 12:40 pm
Dougal, Mitch, and Donna

Dougal, Mitch, and Donna

As mentioned previously, I gave a presentation last weekend at WordCamp Birmingham 2008 on “The Future of WordPress”. [...]

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WordCamp Birmingham Registration Deadline Approaching

9/22/2008 – 1:28 pm

If you have been thinking about attending WordCamp Birmingham 2008, but haven’t committed yet, now is the time. [...]

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Yarrr! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!

9/19/2008 – 7:25 am

Once again, we have arrived on Talk Like a Pirate Day. [...]

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WordPress 2.6.2 Release

9/9/2008 – 3:35 pm

As most of you have probably already seen in your Dashboard, yesterday afternoon saw the official WordPress 2.6.2 Release. And as mentioned in the comments on my intitial news break on the 2.6.2 Beta, the focus is on two security patches to cover weaknesses in PHP’s random number generation (which affects password encryption strength), and in MySQL’s field length checking. [...]

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WordCamp Birmingham

9/4/2008 – 8:43 am
WordCamp Birmingham September 27-28, 2008

If you haven’t already heard, WordCamp Birmingham is coming up on September 27 & 28, 2008. [...]

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WordPress 2.6.2-beta1

8/29/2008 – 6:17 pm

It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1 was just branded in svn a short while ago. . [...]

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XCache Object Cache Plugin for WordPress 2.5+

8/29/2008 – 12:23 pm

This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of WordPress users. In particular, if you use the XCache PHP opcode cache and Neosmart’s XCache object-cache plugin for WordPress. [...]

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Knee Update - Week 7

8/27/2008 – 8:02 pm

It’s been seven weeks since my knee surgery. I can now officially put my full weight on my right leg. Unofficially, I’ve already been walking around without crutches for most of the past week. When I had my six-week checkup with the surgeon, I asked when I could drive a car on my own instead of having to get my family members to drive me to appointments. [...]

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Macbook + Coffee = Bad

8/12/2008 – 11:11 pm

Everybody knows that you shouldn’t keep beverages too close to the computer, right? The reason is because eventually, your toddler is going to run up to give you a big hug before she leaves for daycare, and is going to bump your leg. Your leg, in turn, is going to bump the TV tray where you set your coffee cup. [...]

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WordPress 2.6.1-beta1

8/7/2008 – 9:54 pm

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen mention of this from other channels yet (official or unofficial), but two days ago, SVN revision 8561 of the WordPress 2.6 branch was labled as WordPress version 2.6.1-beta1. [...]

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