WordPress 2.5 : Preview the Admin Area

If you don't have an SVN install to play with next WordPress version (the upcoming 2.5 milestone), someone is here to help. Chris Johnston has set up a WP 2.5 demo site so you can log in the admin area and see what's changing in there. New colors, new look, new menus, new interface: this version will bring a lot…

WordPress Snippets

I'm a reader of the wp-hackers mailing list. Besides some fairly useless and unproductive advocacy or opinion threads happening on an annoyingly regular basis, the list is also a very great place to share code tips and snippets. Someone asks a "how do I do this" question, and someone else (sometimes) comes up with a smarter, simpler or shorter solution…

Prologue Theme Zip Download

The increasingly popular Prologue theme now has a dedicated website: Prologue Theme, with a convenient download link pointing to a .zip archive instead of an SVN repository. What I like about this theme is the idea they had to include a trimmed down version of the post interface right into the home page. I see a number of themes doing…

PuTTy Connection Manager: PuTTy with tabs. This is awesomely awesome. If I had to chose one feature a software was missing since mankind and software exist, I would have pointed this one. Now I can die happy :)

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Facebook acquisition, Google decline or Microsoft social network: everybody is making predictions for 2008. Twitter user predictions08 tracks them. Could be fun and interesting for the next few days.

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The World of Hello World: some guy has put together a map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created. Each language comes with its mandatory "Hello World" example. Very cool :)

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Gmail Labels: Look, It’s Colorful!

Gmail implemented a very cool feature (or at least it was recently added to my account) in the form of colored labels. You can assign each label a color from a selection, and I find this really handy when you're scanning through all your unread mails at once. I like it. Too bad I'm still receiving various mails that were…