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Jul 15 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Version 2.6 "Tyner," named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
Read about all the updates at the WordPress blog and download 2.6 here.
Jul 9 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
As Jan Odvarko notes, "I was surprised how many Firebug extensions … exist out there." Check out his list of 12 extensions at http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/list-of-firebug-extensions/. All extensions include a brief summary of what they do, a screen capture and a link to the download page.
Two that I use are YSlow and Odvarko's own Firecookie.. YSlow analyzes Web pages and determines why they're slow based on Yahoo's rules for high performance web sites. Firecookie makes it possible to view and manage cookies within the familiar Firebug UI.
Jul 7 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 3 comments
CVS, Git, Mercurial, Subversion, SVK: which code versioning system do you prefer? Place your vote and discuss your rationale in Webmonkey's version control smackdown.
Jun 20 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
While at the ISOC-NY monthly meeting last night, I learned about a cool project of theirs: ISXubuntu. ISXubuntu will be a Linux live CD, based on Ubuntu Linux, which has been optimized for security and privacy while online. The global Internet Society has provided a grant to cover development costs and so that CDs may be distributed free of charge.
ISXubuntu will feature anonymous Web browsing using Tor, ad blocking with Privoxy, encrypted email with Enigmail, encrypted instant messaging with OTR and the ability to store a personal home directory and other configuration settings on an encrypted USB flash drive.
Volunteers are needed for this project, so if you're interested, get involved: http://isoc-ny.org/isxubuntu
Apr 9 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Just got finished with my first Wordpress 2.5 upgrade and I'm happy to report that everything (except a !@%$#%@ spotty internet connection which made the process take at least three times at long!) went smoothly. Contrary to my expectation, none of the plugins broke!
The admin interface certainly is different—it's better, but still odd after so many years with the old one. However, I love the new one click plugin auto-upgrade feature. It downloaded, unzipped, and installed the latest version of Akismet without any problems.
Update 2008-04-06: I also like the new "modal" window approach to file upload. While the old file upload tab on the "Write Page" page was definitely usable thanks to an <iframe> and JavaScript, the interface was still a bit clunky. The new UI is definitely faster and slicker.
Update 2008-04-07: While doing another upgrade (from 2.0.9 to 2.5) I broke my first plugin: Category Visibility. However, since I'm not sure what version (other than the 2.0 series) it was last compatible with, this may not be a 2.5 issue.
Update 2008-04-07: It appears that query_posts() (or at least the way I've always used it!) is broken in 2.5. More on this to follow…
Update 2008-04-09: query_posts() is not broken, but the Adhesive plugin is.
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