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Syndactyly (Webbed Toes/Fingers) Forums

10/20/2006 – 12:11 am

A few years ago, I made a post that mentioned in passing that I have webbed toes. About a month later, my logs started showing up a fair number of referals from search engines from people looking for info about webbed toes. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, Personal | Also tagged bbPress, Community, fingers, forums, Syndactyly, this-site, toes, webbed, webbed toes | Comments (40)

WordPress 2.0.5 RC1

10/17/2006 – 5:27 pm

No official announcement yet, but WordPress 2.0.5 has just transitioned from Beta to Release Candidate status. Join the wp-testers mailing list for details on how to download nightly builds. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, WordPress | Comments (16)

Browsenberg Uncertainty Principle

9/29/2006 – 2:30 pm

Co-worker Stephen Touset has described what he calls the Browsenberg Uncertainty Principle:

As one increases the layout precision of a section on a webpage, all other sections of the page have their layouts perturbed by a proportional amount.

And its corollary:

The more precisely one specifies positioning and layout for a page in one browser, the less accurately every other browser will render it.

Make sure you follow the link and also read his example of a typical exchange between a customer and a web designer. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in CSS, Fun, Web Design | Also tagged CSS | Comments (6)

WordPress 2.0.4

7/28/2006 – 10:13 pm

All WordPress users are encouraged to upgrade to the newest release, WordPress 2.0.4. The new release contains several important security updates, so you are strongly advised to upgrade. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Release, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (10)

Knock, knock…

6/28/2006 – 11:41 am

I know, I know… I haven’t been very active on the blogging front lately. Once again I’ve been sucked into a swirling vortex of job and home projects, with little-to-no time for participating in blogdom. I’ve managed to keep up with most of the latest memes, and I’ve added a few new del.icio.us bookmarks, but there’s been no opportunity to develop any nifty code or write about the subject of the day.

I’ve got eight draft posts in my queue, and three of those are no longer timely, and so I’ll probably end up deleting them. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Family, Holidays, Personal, WordPress, Work | Also tagged dom, Perl, plugin, Plugins, this-site, WordPress | Comments (3)

WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup Plugin

6/7/2006 – 11:26 am

A couple of buglets snuck by in the WordPress 2.0.3 release. There should be a version 2.0.4 release relatively soon. But in the meantime, check out the WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup Plugin, by Mark Jaquith. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged plugin, Release, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (14)

How to revamp Yahoo! Groups?

3/28/2006 – 12:23 pm

Jeremy Zawodny has some thoughts about the possible evolution of Yahoo! Groups.

There are bits of JotSpot (notable Tracker), WordPress, and Flickr that I think could be sprinkled into Yahoo Groups, not to mention Google Maps and/or Wayfaring, Yahoo! Local, Google Calendar, and a few other things.

Jeremy is a sharp guy who keeps his finger close to the pulse of current happenings on the net. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services | Also tagged Business, Google, WordPress, yahoo | Comments (0)

Zeldman on WordPress

3/9/2006 – 3:55 pm

Web guru extraordinaire, Jeffrey Zeldman, has spent the last 11 years hand-coding his web site and RSS feeds. No more –Zeldman has switched to WordPress. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, PHP, RSS, WordPress | Comments (4)

Timing is everything

3/3/2006 – 9:27 am

Our group’s management has told us before that if there is any kind of work-related training we’d like to take or conferences we’d like to attend, to let them know. So when An Event Apart Atlanta was announced in January, I put in a request the same day. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal, Work | Also tagged aea, aneventapart, Atlanta, conference, meeting, PHP, Stupid | Comments (1)

WordPress 2.0 Release imminent

12/19/2005 – 4:02 pm

Just three hours ago, Matt posted this on the wordpress-hackers mailing list:

Subject: [wp-hackers] 2.0 Release

Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the phase of the moon.

Now would be a great time to start making sure your themes and plugins work with the new version, and post to hackers if you need any help updating them.

Yow! On the one hand, I’m really excited about this release. [...]