Thirty-nine
Jan302006
That’s funny. I don’t feel a day over 38.99726.
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About Dougal Campbell
Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.
Feedlounge is live
Jan252006
This is old news now, but what the heck — I haven’t posted in a while, and this will be quick. In case you didn’t already know, FeedLounge, that fantabulous online feed reader that all the Cool Kids have been raving about, is out of testing and ready for the world. It’s currently only available with a paid subscription, but to get a taste (the first hit’s free), you can take the Three Hour Tour. … Continue reading
Ping-O-Matic Fun
Jan132006
The problem with running a service like Ping-O-Matic is that sometimes you have to send emails like this: To: […deleted…] Subject: Re: pingomatic > Hi! > > I have tried to ping pingomatic for about 2 days now > but it will not work for me. My site is > http://www.[…xxxxxx…].com/ > > Do you have any idea of why I can not ping your site > anymore? Because we don’t want pings from porn … Continue reading
Six Rules for Driving
Jan122006
If you are going to share the road with me, here are some rules that I expect you to know: Don’t tailgate me. If you tailgate me, I’ll slow down. Unless you try to pass me, in which case, I might speed up. And if we’re in a no-passing zone, I’ll slow down more. Just. To. Piss. You. Off. Use your signals. It’s a shame that you spent $35K on that Mercedes and the signals … Continue reading
return(true);
Jan102006
function do_stuff() { if (in_array($date, $holidays) && $vacation == true) { travel(‘away’); visit_family(); $gifts->exchange(); eat(); travel(‘home’); } if ($new_year == true) { eat() && drink(); $weight++; $sleep = false; } $slack = false; $resolve++; $work->resume(); return(true); }
New features in WordPress 2.0?
Dec242005
A lot of people are still asking what the differences are between WordPress version 1.5.2 and version 2.0. I did mention that a lot of the differences are under the surface, and I mentioned the WYSIWYG editor and the new user permissions scheme. Rather than list the changes here, I’ll point you to those who have already written about it. One of the best articles is probably What’s New in WordPress 2.0? over on Owen … Continue reading
WordPress Book
Dec222005
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress Well, actually, the book isn’t just about WordPress. But it does devote six chapters to our favorite blogging platform. The book I’m talking about is Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, co-authored by Mike Little. The result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. … Continue reading
WordPress 2.0 Release on December 26
Dec212005
In response to concerns about availability of support over the Christmas holiday, the release of WordPress 2.0 has been delayed until December 26. This will allow all the fine helpers who answer questions in the forums and on IRC to enjoy the holiday without feeling that they need to rush back to assist upgraders.
Upgraded
Dec212005
I went ahead and took the plunge: this site is now running WordPress 2.0 RC3. Everything seems to be working fine so far, despite some of the ugly hacks I have in my home-grown “Rock’em Sock’em Robots” theme. I’m not using the new WYSIWYG editor, as I prefer to write my post markup by hand. And even though the new version lets you add categories on-the-fly, I’m still using the Tags4WP plugin, because it will … Continue reading
Yahoo! Web Hosting adds WordPress
Dec202005
Double Yow! Another announcement from Matt: Yahoo! Web Hosting has added WordPress to their offerings. And as an added bonus, they automatically enable the Akismet plugin, which is going to add a wealth of data to that service’s spam filters.