It’s official, I’m sick. Since Monday I kept telling myself this was just allergies but now my throat hurts and my voice is going and I need to accept the fact and start eating/sleeping/drinking in a manner consistent with getting better. Bad timing, but it always is. Posting will either be light or heavier than ever.
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Wanted: CSS Luminary
Hot Blogs
Speaking of lists, I have a small list of well-designed WordPress blogs I’ve come across. I’m open to suggestions, so if you have a favorite that isn’t on the list let me know.
Moving Up
I noticed today that about a third of my updated blogroll is now powered by WordPress. This is a skewed sample, surely, but at least half of those I never would have imagined converting. I was remembering today when WordPress first got started and out of all the developers I was the only one running it. Mike and Alex were still on b2 because they had a lot of hacks that would be hard to transition, and Dougal was on some funky system he had previously contributed to. (MyPHPBlog?) You could count the number of WP blogs on one hand. That was about a year ago.
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Free SuSE
Novell is giving away copies of SuSE Pro. Step 3: Profit!!! Hat tip: dented21 in #wordpress.
More Molly
Molly explains her move, an interesting read.
mod_validator
mod_validator offers several advantages to the W3C validator. Worth checking out if you run Apache 2.0.
Subscriber
Yes!!!
I did it!! I finally got a wireless card working on my Gentoo box. I can finally unplug that unsightly ethernet cord that’s been stringing across my house while I’ve been trying to get this working. The problem was there was a driver I had to download and then put into a directory which I also had to create. I didn’t find much to help me, but this thread put me on the right track. The card is a Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1 (rev 01). I have been trying to get this (and other things) to work for almost a month now. This is a huge relief, and I can’t believe I’ve been held up this long by something so simple.
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Molly.com Switches
Molly E. Holzschlag, author of Teach Yourself Movable Type and much else, has switched to WordPress. Her switch was quite an adventure. Getting the data out of a partially-corrupted Berkeley database into something either MT or WordPress could parse really was a challenge .
Big Pink Cookie
Christine, who came up with the name “WordPress” about a year ago, has switched to WordPress from Movable Type. 3,500 posts and 17,000 comments were imported without a hitch.
Life Hacks Video
Anyone have a copy of Danny O’Brien’s Life Hacks video from NotCon? (Update: The video is now online. I’m downloading it now.)
PHP Pear
Rotten PEAR. I’ve noticed a “good ‘ol boy” mentality in most of the PHP “community” efforts. Is PHP succeeding because of its community or in spite of it? Hat tip: Jeff Moore.
Perl’s Special Variables
acking Literature
More FOAFers
Danny Ayers, semantic web advocate, likes how WordPress handles Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. Jim Ley, another RDF/FOAF guy, has also switched to WordPress. Where are they coming from?
Bouncer
Use WordPress’ built-in authentication to secure your blog.