Cacti server monitor, to check out later.

“We don’t need the GPL anymore. It’s based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. Open source would be succeeding faster if the GPL didn’t make lots of people nervous about adopting it.” — ESR. Some interesting arguments. I don’t agree with it all but it’s a good read nonetheless.

To clarify for all the confused people WordPress is not affected by the recent XML-RPC problem that lots of other apps were. We use different, more secure libraries for XML-RPC. The problem was discovered by the same guy though, I imagine he was auditing our code and found totally unrelated, which we fixed in our recent release. Of course you wouldn’t guess that from the title, “PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits.” Let’s go down the list: PostNuke – content management; WordPress – blogging; Drupal – content/community management; Serendipity – blogging; phpAdsNew – ad serving; phpWiki – wiki (not blogging); phpMyFAQ – FAQ management. If it bleeds it leads, right? 😉

Marc asks about export in the next version of WordPress. It’s actually the very first item on the list because it got bumped from 1.5 because of time constraints. The main holdup has been WordPress supports rich data like custom fields and slugs, which users love, but it makes a lossless import and export a pain. Most other blog tools have a WordPress importer already simply because it’s a market leader, so don’t think the export will improve portability much, but it should make a nice way to backup and restore a WP blog.

Nice overview of different Web Design Patterns. Happy 4th!

I heard on the grapevine that WordPress won an Editor’s Choice award from Linux Journal, could anyone confirm? I’m going to head to Border’s tomorrow to see if they have any new copies.

This German WordPress book is, as far as I know, the first to be published exclusively about WP. Here’s to many more. They sent me an email and hopefully I’ll get a copy in the mail soon.

I got the scoop that Webshots has a new beta experiment up called Webshots Shoebox which is like a universal photo aggregator mashup. Get the bookmarklet and it’ll all make sense. I noticed it imports tags from Flickr too. They have a blog to engage the conversation, so go check it all out. (The blog is on WordPress, of course.) Accord to Alexa Webshots.com has the #58 most traffic in the world. (Slashdot is #1,421.) Hat tip: Narendra.

I forgot to note that Ryan is doing these neat commit summaries of some of the work going on with WordPress. Here’s his second one. If we can bribe him into making this a regular thing I’d love to see more of these. 🙂 Also check out this animated screenshot of part of the new interface for 1.6.

WordPressDash is a Tiger dashboard widget for posting to WordPress.

Why everyone needs a bugmaster. We picked a few for WordPress today in the IRC meetup but we opted to call them “Bug Gardeners” for now.

This AJAX commenting looks pretty neat, has anyone made this into a WP plugin yet?

The Fillmore Jazz Festival is this weekend in San Francisco.

Okay WordPress is merging with the Canadians and the Drupal geeks in a giant unified open source party/meetup at the Fairmont Hotel at 6:30 PM tonight, June 25. Come one and all to learn the real future of Open Source. 😉