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WordPress 2010/09/14 1 min read

Infographics: The Process To Make WordPress Plugins

… where "making an UI" means coding the plugin option page, making it understandable, carefully pick some wording, don't overwhelm with unneeded explanations but make sure everything is crystal clear, throw a bit of jQuery to make the page more functional. … and sometimes I'm a bit fed up with this pattern. Note that it's probably because I lack UI…

WordPress 2010/08/16 2 min read

More WordPress Useless Stats And Graphs

As a sequel to my previous post about the number of functions across WordPress history, let's talk now about files and sizes. Through the 54 releases to date, WordPress has grown from an immature toddler to a big healthy kid. The following graph shows the evolution of the zip archive size and the total uncompressed size: In the early days,…

WordPress 2010/08/13 1 min read

Evolution of the Number of Functions in WordPress

A few fun and useless facts I collected while mining through 54 WordPress releases, from 0.7.1 to 3.0.1: The latest version of WordPress, 3.0.1 as of publishing, has 3240 PHP functions defined. The first version (0.7.1) had 309 Across all WordPress versions, 3920 PHP functions have been defined and used On average, each ".X" release (2.1, 2.9…) introduces 225,2 new…

Images 2008/10/28 1 min read

Song Title Cloud From My iPod

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!

2008/05/16 11h30 #

Ahah 2008/04/27 1 min read

Ugliest (and Dumbest) Tatoo Ever

This tatoo doesn't even validate, duh! (via the always entertaining pics.reddit)

Cool! I'm popular today :)

2008/04/21 8h55 #

What's wrong with GMail these days? I seem to receive mails hours after they've been sent, and I'm pretty sure I've missed quite a few.

2007/11/29 22h18 #

Just two more feed readers and I'll break the 300 mark… Subscribe ppplease! :)

2007/11/23 16h02 #

Code 2007/06/13 1 min read

Overkill Method to Kill Spam #71

Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don't care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of referrer domains and, unsurprisingly, about…