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Typography design patterns for the web

7/5/2007 – 12:01 pm

When I’m putting a new web site together, one thing that sometimes bugs me is choosing which fonts to use. I’ll typically throw together a list of fonts that I like, decide to use this set of serif fonts for these page elements, and that set of sans-serif fonts for those other elements, select some fallback choices for my stylesheet, and let it go at that. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in CSS, Design, Ideas, Web Design | Also tagged Ajax, CSS, Fonts, Web | Comments (5)

WP-Cache fix for Content-Type in feeds

6/19/2007 – 12:56 pm

If you run a busy WordPress site, or even if your site just has a lot of processor-intensive plugins, then you probably already run the WP-Cache plugin (plugin directory, original announcment, recent security update info). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, Software, Standards, Syndication, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Syndication, WordPress | Comments (12)

WordPress 2.2 Released

5/15/2007 – 9:52 pm

WordPress 2.2 “Getz” is now official. I’ve listed some of the changes previously, but here’s another quick rundown:

Atom feeds updated to Atom 1.0
Preliminary support for Atom Publishing Protocol
Widgets are now supported in core
Protection against activating broken plugins
“Deactivate All Plugins” button. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, jquery, plugin, Plugins, Releases, WordPress, xml-rpc | Comments (51)

WordPress 2.2 Delayed

4/19/2007 – 1:03 pm

A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer “big” new features in each release. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged delicious, Feeds, Flickr, plugin, Plugins, Releases, RSS, Tags, Technorati, WordPress | Comments (16)

New WordPress Releases: 2.0.10 and 2.1.3

4/3/2007 – 11:44 pm

That’s right, two shiny new bugfix/security updates. One for the 2.0 branch and one for the 2.1 branch. There are some small bugfixes in both of these versions, but the main reason to upgrade is for the security fixes (I’m going to write more on that subject later).

Visit the downloads page for version 2.1.3, and the Release Archive for version 2.0.10.

Watch later this month for the release of WordPress 2.2. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, Releases, WordPress, xml-rpc | Comments (9)

Atom Publishing Protocol Clients?

1/21/2007 – 2:38 am

Does anyone have a suggestion for a blog client that implements the Atom Publishing Protocol API? I’d prefer a client that runs under Linux, but I could also deal with a Windows-based client using Wine. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Atom, Software, WordPress | Also tagged app, AtomPub, Firefox | Comments (6)

Google Blog Search

9/14/2005 – 5:31 pm

I may be a little late coming to this party, but Google has introduced Google Blog Search, which limits searches to just blogs (well, in theory, anyhow). The most interesting thing about this, to me, is that GBS provides the search results for your terms as Atom and RSS feeds.

It seems that Google is leveraging blog feeds to get structured data, and monitoring ping sites for timely updates. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Atom, Blogs, Search, Syndication | Also tagged Feeds, Google, pingomatic, RSS, Web | Comments (1)

blo.gs update

8/11/2005 – 12:55 pm

An update on the ongoing problem with blo.gs updates…

Blo.gs is still reporting erroneous updates. Not as many as before, but still enough to be a problem. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services, Tech | Also tagged Feeds, RSS, Web, yahoo | Comments (4)

Improved Thunderbird OPML

1/17/2005 – 12:23 pm

I’ve updated the OPML import/export patch for Mozilla Thunderbird that I mentioned before. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Software, Tech | Also tagged Feeds, Google, RSS, Syndication, Web | Comments (23)

WordPress 1.2.2

12/15/2004 – 9:29 pm

Newly available, WordPress 1.2.2. This is mainly a security and bugfix release. Some users have taken us to task for taking so long to get this release out. But as Matt said, there were several issues being worked on simultaneously, and it seemed more efficient in the long run to roll them all into one release, rather than forcing users to do multiple back-to-back upgrades. [...]