Programmer’s Toolbox Part 3: Consistent Hashing. It would be interesting if something like this could be folded into the currently random slave server selection for HyperDB.
Category Archives: Asides
WordCamp Dallas and WordPress 2.5
The talk this morning at WordCamp Dallas was quite enjoyable. The audience here is very sharp and on-point, there was a ton of participation and great questions. They also had delicious Rudy’s BBQ for lunch, which I nibbled at as much as I could. Also (roughly) concurrent with the talk we released WordPress 2.5. Funnily because I kept the edit screen for the announcement open from stage the concurrent editing protection prevented anyone else fom publishing the post! Andy told me after I was done and I pushed the button, but it’s good to know the feature works. 🙂
Audacity of Code
Ray Ozzie Interview
MyBabyOurBaby.com on MU
MyBabyOurBaby.com is a baby scrapbooking site built on WordPress MU. They were written up in Mashable a few weeks ago, surprised it hasn’t gotten more coverage. It’s a good example of what MU is capable of, joining Edublogs, AllthingsD, and Chickspeak. Any other awesome MU-powered sites you’ve seen recently?
Dallas WordCamp
I’m looking forward to WordCamp Dallas next week. I’m in Houston getting my wisdom teeth out on Monday, but I’m hoping to be back at full-speed for the conference.
Gallery
Black and white photos from dinner with my family and a pet store.
Share Icon
The open source Share Icon is back, after its trace disappearing from the internet for a time. Good on Share This for promoting this project to the community. The spread of this icon, which already is incredibly ubiquitous, will continue.
Christian Lander on SWPL
Stuff White People Like’s Christian Lander: The Heeb Interview, a short interview with the fellow behind the now-famous SWPL (hosted on WordPress.com, naturally), which has already spawned copycats.
Drinks and Pie Fight at Rice
Met Richard Yoo, had mexican food and drinks with friends, and wandered around Rice into a pie fight.
New Gravatar
The rewrite of Gravatar from Ruby to PHP is done. The backend should be identical, the serving of Gravatars should be even faster, and as a bonus we now support SSL Gravatars.
Interview with Pop17
WP at eBay
eBay has a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Jonathan Dingman.
Metblogs
The new Metblogs looks fantastic. According to Jason all the cities are running on WordPress MU. Metblogs was one of the largest Movable Type installations I knew about, I’m honored to see them move to WP. Cities are the next big thing, I hear.
VC Mike and Automattic
Automattic Connection talks a bit about the history of Automattic from the point of view of Mike Hirshland, aka VC Mike.
More Social
Winer / Lakoff
Northern Voice
Thank you to everyone who came out for the keynote this morning at Northern Voice, it was a real pleasure to reconnect with the Canadian tech scene and meet everyone.
Communities as Parties
Yahoo Interview
I was at Yahoo with Raanan a few weeks ago and Jeremy Zawodny grabbed me and we did an interview for Yahoo Developer Network. We talk about WP 2.5, scaling, bbPress, PHP vs the world, and more.