Category Archives: News

All the news that’s fit to print.

WordPress 2.6 Released

By Dougal | Published: July 15, 2008

The release of WordPress 2.6 is now official. In addition to the features I highlighted previously, Ryan has details on his blog about the improved support for SSL, and some new helper functions which will be useful for plugin and theme authors. And the official dev blog post has details on other new features. One of the more interesting things that I didn’t yet know about was that the Press This bookmarklet has some nifty autodetection which will make it easy to automatically embed content from sites like YouTube and Flickr.

In addition to the new features, I’d also like to point out that there has been a recent effort to improve the inline source documentation (using PHPdoc). [...]

Also posted in Announcements, Community, Software, WordPress | Tagged , , , , | 31 Comments

Things I intentionally did not blog about recently

By Dougal | Published: April 12, 2007

Here are some hot topics that I specifically chose not to blog about recently:

  • The “Blogger Code of Conduct”
  • Don Imus’ racial slurs
  • Anna Nicole’s baby-daddy

You’re welcome.

Also posted in Blogging, Fun, Humor | Tagged | 11 Comments

WordPress 1.5.x safe from XML-RPC worm

By Dougal | Published: November 9, 2005

In case you didn’t already see my post over on the WordPress Development Blog, rest assured that WordPress is safe from the recently announced PHPXMLRPC worm. Some of the articles about this worm point to old information indicating that WP 1.5 is vulnerable, but that is incorrect. Versions 1.2.x and earlier are in danger, however. . [...]

Also posted in Blogs, Security, Tech, WordPress | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Helping Hurricane Victims

By Dougal | Published: September 29, 2005

Do you wish that you could help a victim of Katrina or Rita? Do you have items that you think they need, but you aren’t sure where to send them? If you knew what somebody needed, would you like to be able to get it directly to them?

The Been There Clearing House is “an informal clearinghouse in which individuals offering in-kind donations and individuals in need can connect.” You can read the stories of those affected by the recent storms, donate or request goods, or adopt a family.

These stories are starting to get less media coverage now (except for some of the finger-pointing), but there are still many, many people who need help. [...]

Also posted in Community, The South, WordPress | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

CSS-powered Slashdot goes live

By Dougal | Published: September 22, 2005

The new CSS-powered version of Slashdot (mentioned previously) has gone live

After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS. [...]

Also posted in Blogs, CSS | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Slashdot finally to get CSS makeover

By Dougal | Published: September 6, 2005

It’s about time.

After almost 8 years, Slashdot’s HTML is finally getting an overhaul. . [...]

Also posted in Blogs, CSS | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Katrina aftermath

By Dougal | Published: September 6, 2005

I talked to my mom this morning, and she said that all of our Mississippi relatives are accounted for. One family lost their house and is staying with other relatives, and one of my great aunts fell and broke her hip, and is in the hospital. Other than that, everyone is fine.

Also posted in Family, The South | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Katrina

By Dougal | Published: September 2, 2005

I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. Granny was visiting one of my aunts in New York. Her flight home was canceled twice, so she returned on Wednesday instead of Monday, but at least she has a home to return to. My mom rode things out at her house in Fairhope, with not much worse than power outages and downed tree limbs. [...]

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The Real Round Up

By Dougal | Published: August 10, 2005

Whoops, I forgot to rename that previous post, since I didn’t actually post the round up. So, this post will be the real round up… Sort of. . [...]

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Lawmakers move to extend daylight-saving time

By Dougal | Published: July 25, 2005

Oh, dear Lord. Somebody please kill this weed before it grows: Lawmakers move to extend daylight-saving time

House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by one week to the first Sunday in November.

I. Hate. Daylight. Savings. Time.

First of all, it’s an outmoded idea. [...]

Also posted in Politics | Tagged , , | 15 Comments