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WordPress 2008/06/27 1 min read

Better Feed for WordPress: Now Even More Better!

The mother of all the feed plugins is back: Better Feed version 2.0 just hit the repository and it's now even better than better. For those who don't know it, Better Feed allows you to highly customize your feed, adding basically anything you'd like below each item: a copyright notice, an "Add to delicious" link, a promotional message, tag links,…

sux0rz 2008/06/25 1 min read

This is Official: I Hate Firefox’s “Awesome” Bar

According to this non-authoritative poll, nearly 50% of Firefox3 users think that the "Awesome Bar" is a huge piece of crap. I must concur: this is a *huge* piece of crap. The sad thing is, there seem to be no way of reverting to a normal behavior. A few Firefox Addons or about:config hacks make things look like what it…

planetOzh 2008/06/14 1 min read

DreamHost Invitation Codes (for Ridiculous Bandwidth and Storage)

For nearly 3 years now, all my online activities including this blog have been hosted at DreamHost. Nearly 3 years of overall positive experience then, otherwise I'd be obviously somewhere else :) The reason of this post is that I've just received five DreamHost invitation codes, that are worth the following: 4 times the normal disk and bandwidth (that is:…

Funny: this post was aiming to be a collection of reasons why WordPress sucks. After a couple of comments pointing out more or less annoying bugs or features, the thread naturally evolved towards a lists of all the reasons why WordPress does not suck, to the consensus that it is the best blogging tool around, certainly not perfect, but still the best. Who needed proofs anyway? :)

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Web 2008/06/08 1 min read

Link Love: a Site for American Tourists (and Others) in Paris

If you're about to spend some holiday time this summer visiting Paris, I suggest you visit my friend Michelle's site, Gadabout Paris. This west coast American moved to Paris a few years ago and thought it would be nice to share her discoveries with the world: exciting places, things to see, things to do, restaurants not to miss, everything goes…

WordPress 2008/06/05 1 min read

About Plugins and Roles in WordPress MU

WordPress MU is a hacked version of WordPress that can manage several blogs from a single install. Basically, most of the things (plugins and themes) made for WP work for WPMU (don't take this as a golden rule though) Today on wp-hackers' mailing list, Donncha posted an interesting message about two fundamental differences between WP and WPMU, regarding plugins and…

planetOzh 2008/06/04 2 min read

How to Increase your Feed Subscribers: Don’t Miss Twitter

Increasing the number of your subscribers is (or should be!) one of any blogger's goal. You write to be hopefully read, and your subscribers are people you are sure do read you. Now, what about increasing effortlessly your loyal readership by (at least) 20%? Twitter is a fun little tool I've never really found any need for. I actually use…

Web 2008/06/02 1 min read

Google Gets a New Favicon

Did you notice? I've just seen that Google has a new favicon. I couldn't find any new thing across all other services, though (Gmail and stuff). Is this a first step in some bigger redesign process? No more green-blue-red-yellow logo on the search page?

Web 2008/05/29 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……

WordPress 2008/05/27 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…