I love logos + I love geek humor = This is excellent and I love it.
"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 quite funny. I found this via xavisys.com where Movable Type's Anil Dash throws in a few politically correct comments.
Now, what is even funnier, is that this Adobe's blog is not new in this "MT sucks" thinking. At first I thought that it was a reminiscence of the recent MT vs WP "debate" initiated by Anil Dash and Matt Mullenweg, but it seems that the guys running Penguin.SWF have been MT dislikers since the beginning. The blog went live in May 2006 claming that it was "Powered (hindered?) by an embarrassingly unintuitive CMS".
The real question now is: why the hell are they using MT if they think it sucks? It seems that Adobe Blogs are all running (a fairly old version of) Movable Type and they might be stuck with it. Note that a few other bloggers left their MT platform for (of course) WordPress.
So… Not sure if this is the feeling of just one person, of a whole team, or Adobe employees' thoughts in general, but this is definitely amusing :)
(And If I were an Automattic employee, I'd definitely try to seal a deal with Adobe to help them migrate from PerlType 3.2.deprecated.old to WordPress)
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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My most popular stuff on del.icio.us just got past 1000 bookmarks, and my feed reader count is now just above 500. I love you all!
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Two months ago, I wrote an article about per-user admin color schemes that WordPress 2.5 brought in its bag of new features. A few days laters, I received an email from COLOURlovers' chief lover, Darius, letting me know about the API they were about to release (and did released since, of course)
At this time, I had no spare time to work on it but the idea grew in my mind, and a few weeks ago I started coding something really fun. You might have seen the teasing earlier this month, and if not, skip it, my screencasting skills have dramatically improved since ;)
Here it goes: I'm pleased to introduce the Admin CSS Designer, a plugin that lets you design and tweak real time your admin color scheme. It fetches colorful palettes from COLOURlovers, make a CSS of it, then lets you edit and modify colors without coding anything or refreshing the page. Once you're pleased with the result, save it as a standalone and reusable CSS.
I made a 3 minutes demonstration video along with a few sexy screenshots, so what are you waiting for? The Admin CSS Designer is waiting for your love!
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 in there seeking for assistance in various fields (coding, theme designing, installing…)
The official WordPress Jobs covers also a wide variety of topics: you can post and look for job offers regarding Programming, Designing, or even Blogging.
WordPress Job is a website that WordPress freelancers are going to follow: it's aggregating WordPress job offers (several every day) from the main freelancers' sites such as ScriptLance, RentACoder, GetAFreeLancer. Be warned though, competition there is really harsh and bids outrageously low :)
General job listing sites can be efficient, too. Simply Hired returns quite some results when looking for "wordpress", mostly coming from Elance and oDesk.
What else? Do you know or use another source for WordPress job offers?
(Photo credits: Daniel Starrason)
I've been a Colour Lover since a few years, I love that site. A few weeks ago, they sent me an email telling that they were about to release an API to play with colors and palettes created by other color lovers, so what could I do? A WordPress plugin, obviously. Warning: this is going to be TAFW (Too Addictive For Work).
(Feed readers: in case you miss it, here goes a video)
If you still have no clue : this plugin fetches color palettes from ColourLovers and lets you play with the generated CSS real time, till you make something cool so you can save it as a standalone reusable CSS. How super cool is this, seriously ? :)
ETA: a few days. Stay tuned !
Kaspars updated is fun plugin Baltic Amber (bringing some refreshing change in the WordPress backend with a set of new stylesheets) to make it fully compatible with my own Admin Drop Down Menu. He threw in some really nice subtle tweaks (see screenshot) that make the two plugins coexist very harmoniously. Good job Kaspars! :)
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For my next stuff I needed the Javascript equivalents of PHP functions basename() and dirname(). Nothing genius:
- function basename(path) {
- return path.replace(/\\/g,'/').replace( /.*\//, '' );
- }
- function dirname(path) {
- return path.replace(/\\/g,'/').replace(/\/[^\/]*$/, '');;
- }
It obviously supports paths like /home/ozh/stuff.php, http://site.com/file.ext or double backslashed Win32 paths such as C:\\dir\\document.txt.
Edit: Mister Ze in comments points out to PHP.JS, an ongoing project aiming to port PHP to Javascript. Some really neat stuff there.
This tatoo doesn't even validate, duh! (via the always entertaining pics.reddit)
