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Gallery: 6-24-2005
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Codex Cleanups
The Codex Cleanup is halfway done, with more than 2,000 edits, over 400 pages categorized, and much more. There is still time to volunteer if you would like.
Open Media 100
I made the Open Media 100 list under “Toolsmiths.” Not too many surprises on the list. Thank you to everyone who nominated me. When I see these things I always think “Now I have to really work hard to live up to this hype.” So, back to work. 🙂
GoDaddy facts
Niall finds some holes in a GoDaddy press release about blogging. I have a ton of domains with them, but their blog actually scares me a little.
Gallery: 6-23-2005
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In Seattle
New York was a blast, but now I’m all the way on the other side of the country in chilly Seattle. There are apparently quite a few conferences going on here this week so booking a hotel was a nightmare, the selection was very limited, but on the plus side I ended up on one of the top floors of the Sheraton and the view is great. Gnomedex looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun and have a ton of good information. We’re going to do a WordPress BoF or party or open source bar or something, so put your name on the list on this page. I didn’t get to meet a whole lot of people in NY because my schedule was so tight, so hopefully I can catch up in Seattle.
Gallery: 6-22-2005
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DVD Jon
Jon Lech Johansen famously known for cracking several DRM systems (DVD Jon) is blogging with WordPress. Hat tip: Tim Hong.
Gallery: 6-21-2005
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Rachel Speight
Rachel Speight has passed away, she was a remarkable friend when I knew her and an inspiration. Here is a better article about her life.
Gallery: 6-20-2005
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Gallery: 6-19-2005
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Gallery: 6-18-2005
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New WP.org Search
At the last IRC meetup the WordPress community asked for better search that included both the forums and the Codex and was integrated with the look and feel of the rest of the site. When I did this before it was horribly slow and it involved several queries across several different programs and MySQL hosts to get the results from the wiki, the forums, the blog, and then splice them together somehow. Later we switched to a plain Google site-search but they didn’t like the HTML we used for the search form so we took it down. Well after the meeting I remembered Yahoo Developer Network which had some sort of API for their search with a much higher limit than Google’s.
I went to the site to see how much of a pain it would be so I could start properly procrastinating, but I was taken aback by how incredibly easy it was to get an application ID and start getting the results back as simple XML. I began hacking on it right then. It was about 5 minutes to set up a search form with URIs the way I wanted, 7 minutes to get the XML and parse it out, 5 minutes to write in some paging, and then about 20 minutes tweaking the search page to make it look a little better. The result is the new search.wordpress.org WordPress Search.
It still needs some more work. There seems to be a dupe problem, which is actually a problem with our site, not Yahoo Search. I’d like to tweak the results to highlight newer topics more, or at leats allow for a date-based weighting. Finally I think it would be nice to include some WP-related blogs like Blogging Pro and Weblog Tools Collection in the results. Most importantly we now have a clean URI structure and home for searches which is abstracted from any piece of software or particular service provider. Yahoo deserves major kudos for opening up their information in such a free way and making it so easy that it’s taken me longer to write this post than start using their API.
NY Meetup Update
So it looks like Saturday is going to be too crazy to do a meetup on that day, but there is going to be a joint party with Lifehacker and Nick Denton on Tuesday night at 7 PM. If you’d like to go please send me an email and I’ll reply with the details.
Tons of Plugins
The WP-Plugins.org developer plugin repository now has over 300 registered plugins. Time to get that directory going!
Podcasting with WordPress
Chris wrote a nice tutorial on podcasting with WordPress, which is delightfully short.
Typepad to WordPress
Tikun Olam Moves from Typepad to WordPress and tells the story of the experience. Hat tip: Pujiono.
phpOpenTracker
phpOpenTracker is an OS framework for tracking website traffic that looks like it has some interesting features. Anyone else have any favorites for tracking stats?