Archive for 2008

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Posted On: 2008 / 12 / 21

I feel totally ashamed for such a crime of Lèse majesté against the unmatched gastronomy of my country, but hey, it was funny and rather tasty: Hamburger Rossini, eaten at restaurant Le Floors, Paris (Google map)[...] → Read more

My 6 year old son, Oscar, now knows about Santa Klaus. I wonder how long I should wait before I give him away the God thing, too.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 12 / 15

With the recently launched WordPress 2.7, bloggers now marvel at how clean, beautiful and usable is the new interface. But do you remember what it used to be a couple of months ago? For those who started using WordPress years ago, can you remember what your admin area looked like? Since I have an archive […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 12 / 12

Getting to know if a function is deprecated, when it was introduced or when it was dropped is important for coders who want to maintain plugins and theme through several WordPress versions. For them, I've updated my WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool Now covering 45 versions of WordPress through 0.7.1 to 2.7 and more than […][...] → Read more

Argh, the dev team caught me by surprise: when I saw WP 2.7 RC2 yesterday, I thought I had a couple of days more, but they decided to release the final 2.7 a few hours later :) So, rather than respond to gazillions (or so) of comments asking about an upgrade, I've committed earlier this […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 12 / 04

Make yourself a favor: use Firefox, install the AdBlock extension, and add http://forms.aweber.com/* in the blockable items.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 12 / 01

The Simpsons Mocks Apple. Soooo excellent and so right on. I *love* the Simpsons. Edit: 2 hours laters, the video are taken down, obviously:)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 11 / 25

Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.". Seems to apply to just anything:)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 11 / 16

Working with SVN on Windows is pretty much synonym to using TortoiseSVN I guess. If you are running a trunk version of WordPress, maintaining plugins or doing anything else collaboratively, chances are you're using this nice piece of software. When you log to you computer to get some coding work done, what is your first […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2008 / 11 / 14

Why I get to my computer in the morning, especially if I'm a little tired, I like to spend the first minutes doing something that will, like, concentrate the Universe's energy in my body before I can get any work done. Or something like this :) Sometimes it's just listening quite loud to one particular […][...] → Read more