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?
Rico
Rico is another open source AJAX library whihc has some nice demos. Hat tip: Jeff Veen.
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New York City Meetup
So I’ll be in New York City (for the first time) from June 18th through the 22nd for the Collaborative Technologies Conference. The trip looks like it’s going to be really busy, but if there’s enough interest I’d love to do a WordPress meetup on Saturday or Sunday. Leave a comment if you’re in the New York area and would be interested in getting together.
Jeremy on WP
Jeremy Zawodny says “the more I play with WordPress on a couple sites I run, the more I’ve realized that it just feels right.” That made my day. ๐ Hat tip: Ozh.
A Great Day in San Francisco
Is this picture of Bay area bloggers going to be the Harlem photo of a new revolution? It was nice of KRON-4 to host the event, and I got interviewed for a short while about a few things — hopefully the footage makes it somewhere.
Tweaking SpamAssassin
I just changed my SpamAssassin user_prefs file to have score ALL_TRUSTED 0
and it’s been helping a lot with the spam that’s been getting through.
Bulletproof Fridge
Watching Mr and Mrs Smith today I learned that the doors of a Sub-Zero are bullet-proof. Handy!
Gallery: 6-11-2005
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WPMU Themes
WPMU can use WordPress themes. I think there will be some nice MU developments in the next month or so. ๐
Keyboard Chair
I wonder if one of these is actually comfortable, if it would work with my chair, and if I would be shunned from the non-geek community if they ever saw it.
No More Websites
BlogSavvy, which I’ve been enjoying lately, asks Why on earth would you want a website? “This time round that hadn’t even popped into my mindโฆ of course I was going to use WordPress to put it together, why would I waste my time and expend my energy on doing it any other way?” James really “gets” a lot of topics.
Alternative Admins
If you don’t like the look of the current WP backend be sure to check out SpotPress. Also check out the Tiger Admin, which is grrrrrreat. Update: Tiger is now a Greasemonkey script.
On Feedlounge
I would be remiss to not point out fellow developer Alex’s new launch of the online aggregator Feed Lounge. I must still have a little country left in me, because whenever I hear the word “feed” I think the food you give the pigs and horses. But it’s good for bloggers too, and Alex’s new endeavor has the finest interface I’ve seen yet on an online aggregator. It’s a closed beta right now, so you can’ try it out yet, but you can go admire how their entire site is built in WordPress. I think it worked especially well for their FAQ section, maybe we should do that on wordpress.org. I wonder if this will be a quick flip?
How To Get Lots of Links and Traffic
New Codex Look
Lorelle, one of the shining stars of the amazing WordPress Documentation team, just wrote a nice article about the new Codex front page.
Ads In Podcasts?
How long before we’ll see ads in podcasts? Well Noah Glass of Odeo fame has registered PodAds.com. (Back in 10/2004.)
This is Real Broadband
Care of VVD Communications, the cool company with a bad website, I now have a synchronous 10mbps connection in my apartment. The first thing I did was go to a bandwidth testing site, as seen above. I was using Comcast before which was pretty snappy, but this is a whole new way to experience the internet. This is even faster than the connection I get at work.
This will definitely mean I’ll be able to run a lot more things from home, the upload bandwidth is about 10x what I had before, which means it’ll be much faster to upload pictures, serve files, stream music from home, and all the other stuff you should be able to do in a hyperconnected world. (Maybe I’ll even catch up on photos now.) They were also able to light up all the ethernet panels in my place so now doing some of the multimedia things I wanted to do around the house should be much easier. (Wireless was really too slow.) Best of all, the whole thing is only $35 a month and there was no setup.
I’m still going to have Comcast for a few months until my contract runs out, what I’m wondering now is if there’s a way to have the router balance the internet traffic between the two connections. I’m using a WRT54GS which I’ve loaded up with alternative Linux-based firmware before with good success. I wonder if that sort of balancing would be possible?
Sxip Comments
Andy is doing some sort of weird remote commenting with Sxip thing, if you’re into that you might want to drop by.