November 19th, 2009
WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards
Matt says:
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
As Hiro Nakamura said when he first bent time and space to land in Times Square: “Yatta!”
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-wins-cms-award/
October 22nd, 2009
Recently, a client wanted just 1 jumbo mailbox for their domain, larger than what I can provide on my hosting platform. Google Apps Enterprise seemed like the perfect fit. 25 Gigs for a reasonable price on the familiar and popular Gmail platform. Perfect right… yes, until you have a question or need support.
Google’s monolith provides no phone number for support, just online forms where you fire your query off and hope for a timely response or resolution.
It has taken Google Enterprise support – 3 weeks to address my issue. That’s right 3 weeks to troubleshoot an email delivery issue. This is the poorest of poor support/service. For a paid service this is unacceptable.
Bottom line, don’t host anything other than personal email with Google Apps. They are not up to the task when it comes to supporting users who depend on reliable email. There are a ton of reputable hosting companies that do excellent email hosting and -gasp- actually have a phone number you can call for support when things go wrong.
Oh and the best part is the issue still isn’t solved and I must continue waiting for replies to emails.
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October 12th, 2009
I am falling head over heels for Cufon.
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:
1. No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
2. Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
3. Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
4. Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text
http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon
October 12th, 2009
The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about making sure that we encourage people to move to modern browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily via business users. Clients pressure designers to ’force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. While Microsoft is encouraging companies and developers to move on from IE6, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.
Visit: http://www.bringdownie6.com/
October 12th, 2009
I stumbled accross this great post by Colin McNulty – Solution to Wordpress Blank Screen of Death after activating my theme started causing all sorts of weirdness.
1 single solitary New Line at the bottom off the file, right after that ?> a Carriage Return & Line Feed in programmers speak. That’s it. You hit the Enter key in one wrong place and the whole pack of cards comes tumbling down!
In Colin’s case it was an extra carriage return in his wp-config.php file after the closing “?>”. In my case the problem was not 1 but 2 extra carriage returns at the end of my theme’s functions.php file.
September 16th, 2009
ALTER TABLE `tablename` AUTO_INCREMENT =0
Will reset the auto_increment to the lowest value in the table.
September 11th, 2009
Here’s a nifty little application that saves you from the drudgery of interfacing with the terminal on your Mac to show hidden files. Sure you can open Terminal and enter:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
and then:
killall FINDER
Enter again.
However, you can drag this app to your dock and do this with just a few clicks. For those of us that need to locate .htaccess files, but don’t want to look at .DS_Store files all day – this is a great productivity enhancer.
“If you are a webmaster, software developer, or advanced user, you may find yourself having to frequently switch between SHOW ALL FILES and HIDE HIDDEN FILES on your Mac. This can be done with a few lines in UNIX… but why not save yourself the time and use this free desktop application.”
http://gotoes.org/sales/ShowHiddenFilesMacOSX/How_To_Show_Hidden_Files.php
September 10th, 2009
This is a great add-on for Firefox which makes organizing many tabs a breeze. If you’re like me sometimes you have 30 tabs open. With this installed you can display your tabs as a nested list on the left or right.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890