Month: May 2008
Web 1 min read

The Real Value of Reddit

Reddit is a cool site to know what's currently hot, interesting or funny on the web. (For the record, I also use a lot del.icio.us/popular and don't like Digg for a number of reasons like stupid captchas, cumbersome submit procedure or site slower than acceptable) But the true value of Reddit (and yet another point where Digg fails pathetically) is……

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WordPress 2 min read

WordPress 2.6 Adds Google Gears

WordPress 2.6 will implement a potentially very cool feature: Google Gears. Here is what you get to see after you click on a catchy "Speed up!" link in WordPress 2.6 … Basically, Google Gears is a browser addon that stores on your local computer some files, allowing for quicker (as in "immediate") access. Those files are stored in a local…

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WordPress Powered Social Engineering

I'll be having a job interview in another company next week, so I'm googling a bit about the manager who will interview me…. Got some hits in Google… Has a website… Hey cool, it's a WordPress blog… Having a look at his wp-content/plugins directory… OK, he's using a plugin I wrote. Things looking fine so far :)

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WordPress’ Widgetised Dashboard

Widgetized Dashboard: this very efficient plugin allows you to populate your Dashboard with the widgets you want, all the widgets you want, and just the widgets you want, just like sidebar widgets. Remove the "Plugins" widget? Add any RSS feed you like? You name it. In my early WordPress 2.5 review a few weeks before it was released, I was…

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Adobe Trolling on MovableType, Prefers WordPress

"Powered by a blogging system that's not as good as WordPress but still tries really hard", where the "tries really hard" part links to Sixapart's Movable Type. This trollicious caption can be found on Penguin.SWF, the Adobe blog that tracks development status of the Linux flavor of Adobe’s Flash Player. Being the biased WP user I am, I find this…

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I've updated my Projects page, which was missing quite some works. It should now be up to date with all the stuff I've coded in the past few years. Hey, this page is starting to give me a little warm feeling of pride ;)

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How to Find a WordPress Job

If you're a WordPress freelancer, or if you are just looking for some pocket change earned thanks to your WordPress hacking skills, how are you supposed to get some homework to do? How to find your daily WordPress job? The mandatory thing to do is to subscribe to the wp-pro mailing list. A few times a day, people are posting…

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