Greasemonkey has gotten a bit of bad hype lately, but it’s still incredibly useful and relevant. Check out this user script that allows you to sort table rows in WordPress using Greasemonkey. BTW, a better sorting algo should be able to deal with no leading zeroes on rows.
Turing Upgraded
Just a service announcement: for those of you on the Turing server the memory has been upgraded so it should be more stable now.
Ecosystem
Speaking of Ecosystems, on Drupal buying Dell boxes.
Mac-like WordPress
The day after the Apple news comes TUAW asking WordPress: Most Mac-like Blogging Tool?. The comments are interesting too, someone points out another Apple weblog using WordPress that I had never heard about before.
DOM Scripting Task Force
The new Web Standards DOM Scripting Task Force is using WordPress for their site.
Dawn and Drew on WordPress
Drew from the Dawn & Drew Show wrote in: “hi matt, i just wanted to drop you a line letting you know how much i enjoy using wordpress. i went from blogger to movabletype to wordpress and i’m digging it very much. i’m half of the dawn and drew podcast and wasn’t sure if you know about podcasting or not, but all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network. i’m in the process of redoing adam’s site in wordpress now.”
MIT on WordPress
MIT has a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Chetan.
Inbox Makeover
Thanks Apple
Apple have updated their student blog to say “Powered by WordPress.” Thanks! Here is the context.
Eating around SF
Open Table let’s you make reservations online and here’s the best of San Francisco.
WordPress-ive
J. Michael thinks WordPress is WordPress-ive. “And their website’s Installing and Upgrading WordPress wikis are the sort of Help pages most every open source app I’ve ever used was lacking. They’re simply a pleasure to use. […] WordPress fills a specific need I’ve had since my very first website back in the mid-late nineties, and I simply can’t believe it’s free.”
Online Journalism Review
WordPress in the Online Journalism Review with a very positive write-up. Hat tip: Newley Purnell.
Movable Type 3.2
The new version of Movable Type sounds very nice, and they’re doing a good job telling its story through a series of entries. I recommend people read what they’re adding and if anything particularly strikes your fancy let us know so we can consider it for WordPress. Inspiration for WordPress has always come from many places, from 37signals or Adaptive Path to other weblogging platforms or content management systems.
Blog Census
Is anyone doing anything to replace or update the Blog Census? It still doesn’t count WordPress blogs, two years later, and that there are only 3 Textpattern blogs. Right now at Ping-O-Matic we have a database of over 5.6 million blogs, if anyone has a smart crawler I could throw at that list it’d be great to get a more realistic view of the State of the Blogosphere.
WP in MacAddict
A few people have written in to point out WordPress is in MacAddict this month as well. Last time I went to Border’s to pick up Linux Journal they didn’t have it so I’ll try again today and pick up both. When it’s all done I’ll try to post pictures.
WordPress Translations
Since 1.5 has been out for a few months now it occured to me to check how the translation efforts have been going. We had a ton of requests from our localization community that we addressed in the bugfix releases for 1.5 and we use the gettext translation framework, which (I’m told) makes localization a pleasure. Of course the place to go is the Codex, which has a page detailing over 35 language packs as well as about a dozen foreign-language sites from Hebrew to Turkish to Japanese dedicated entirely to that country’s WordPress community. Also my copy of the German WordPress book came in the mail today and judging from the screenshots it looks pretty comprehensive.
DB Backup
WordPress Database Backup plugin, can save to file or email it to you. Can combine with the WP-Cron plugin to run at specified intervals.
AARP
“Dear Mr Matthew Mullenweg, Our records show that you haven’t yet registered for the benefits of AARP membership, even though you are fully eligible.” Only $12.50/yr!
Yahoo RSS Search
Niall scoops Yahoo RSS Search, which I played around with a bit this morning thanks to a ping from him. I got very good results with it. They seemed to spider permalink page HTML, so I would get results from people mentioning me in comments to an entry, but I didn’t get blogroll noise like I do from Technorati. Should be interesting to see where it goes. Should also be interesting to see the spin from Technorati, Feedster, Icerocket, Pubsub, etc in response to one of the giants knocking on their door.
Google Spell Checker
The source code to Google’s new toolbar for Firefox has some entertaining details and reveals their new spell checker web service, which I think is really nice. Who’ll be the first to rewrite the AJAX spell checker for WordPress to use this web service instead of the PHP pspell extension?