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Back from WordCamp Birmingham 2008

10/1/2008 – 12:40 pm

Dougal, Mitch, and Donna

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

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Community, The South, WordPress | Also tagged .net, acnatta, Alabama, app, ariedana, birmingham, dazzlindonna, griner, jeremyflint, Microsoft, plugin, SEO, sidesways, SocialNetworks, studionashvegas, twitter, wordcamp, wordcampbham | Comments (3)

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, The South, WordPress | Also tagged Alabama, app, birmingham, conference, vulcan, wordcamp, wordcampbham | Comments (6)

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, Fun, Pirates, Plugins, TalkLikeAPirate, WordPress | Also tagged Pirates, plugin, Plugins, TalkLikeAPirate, text-filter-suite, tfs, yarrr | Comments (10)

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged Bugs, encryption, mt_rand, mt_srand, MySQL, PHP, random, Release, Security, truncation | Comments (7)

WordCamp Birmingham

9/4/2008 – 8:43 am

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

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, The South, WordPress | Also tagged Alabama, birmingham, conference, events, future, geek, meeting, open sessions, presentations, public speaking, talks, Tech, Web, wordcamp, wordcampbham, xfn | Comments (13)

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. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, bugfix, Releases, Software | Comments (28)

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged .net, cache, caching, Development, object-cache, opcode cache, Perl, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, xcache | Comments (54)

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged Atom, AtomPub, Beta, Blogging, bugfix, Bugs, cms, Software, ssl | Comments (17)

WordPress 2.6 Released

7/15/2008 – 8:13 am

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. [...]