Mark Ghosh takes a fair and balanced look at WordPress 1.5 Gamma. “Wow!”
Feedster Redesign
It seems like Feedster has redesigned and looks a lot better. Some silly validation errors, but I’m sure they’ll get to that soon enough.
leahhttpd
While Googling for Light HTTPD information I somehow came across leahhttpd, an interesting HTTP server, with many of the features you’d expect. However, its default error pages are certainly unique.
Bluebonnets
Wallpaper of the day: Texas Bluebonnets (click on picture for full-size)
Trackbacks Hit Again
My entry on Trackback Spam has been getting a lot of traffic today, unfortunately.
Firefox Wins
Firefox beat Internet Explorer in number of people accessing wordpress.org by about 80,000 in January. Of the people visiting with IE, over 90% were using 6.0. This makes web development much, much easier.
Pitch An Idea
Search Meta Tags
Gigablast, the search engine run by one guy named Matt, allows you to do some interesting things with meta tags. Here is a search that finds all “generator” meta tags with “WordPress” and shows the tag itself in the search results. (About 1.5 million results.) I found out about this on the Gigablast blog which isn’t quite a blog. If Matt is looking for a better blog system, I have a suggestion. The results on Gigablast seem on par with Google’s for most things I tried, but the pages themselves need some UI and QA love.
Topix.net Architecture
Topix.net is built on flat files, not databases. My experience has been with the applications I do it’s easier to start with SQL and then cache to the filesystem/memcached.
Documentation
How To Document Your Open-Source Tool, I don’t agree with it all but a good read.
One Click Backup
There’s a new version of the One Click Backup plugin for WordPress.
Comment Spammer Interview
The Register has a great interview with a comment spammer. Why can’t News.com do that type of story?
RSS Metaphor
Sometimes it’s hard to explain the different versions of RSS, but Phil nails it. 🙂
Benefit Concert
I caught the Tsunami benefit concert last night with Zack and friends and it was fantastic. I recorded some of the Ben Gibbard set and I’ll see about putting that up later.
TypeLockPick
With all the fuss and bother over TypeKey, you’d think it was the end of the world. It’s being called the Patriot Act of Weblogging because it’s an over-the-top reaction to a problem. People are saying they’ll never comment on blogs that require TypeKey. I haven’t seen this much commotion over vaporware since… MT 3. The FAQ tells you everything you could ever want to know about TypeKey, except whether it’s free for commercial use. I think as someone intimately aquainted with many of the technologies surrounding weblogs I can set things straight.
Calm down. There’s no need to worry. You can leave comments like you always have, TypeKey or no Typekey. TypeKey is basically a centralized authentication
It’s just like the old days, when you could comment on anything you wanted without hassle.
(WordPress only accepts trackbacks sent through POST because according to the spec, “TrackBack pings should now be sent using HTTP POST instead of GET. The old behavior is deprecated, and support for GET will be removed in January 2003.” It’s 2004 and Movable Type and TypePad GET trackbacks, so if you’re in a pinch you don’t have to use the trackback post form.)
But what if you don’t care about making people sign on to a centralized system, you just want to keep those odious spammers off your blog? Check back, I’ll have something for you tomorrow.
This is all in good fun, what Tantek would call “pulling pigtails.” I met some SixApart people at SxSW, including Mie and Joi, and they were delightful.
Aguas de Marco
Aguas de Marco, the Waters of March, by Antonio Carlos Jobim. If you don’t let the flute/whistle in the middle bug you it’s quite enjoyable, their voices flow so smoothly.
du -sH
du -sH
“du: WARNING: use –si, not -H; the meaning of the -H option will soon
change to be the same as that of –dereference-args (-D).” Now why on earth would they change that?
I’ll Be Seeing You
Check out this video of Brad Mehldau playing “I’ll Be Seeing You” live at Yoshi’s. (Previous Brad Mehldau.) The song has beautiful lyrics too.
CiP Tee
Dig Nicole in the Code is Poetry WordPress shirt. I’m thinking maybe the logo should go on the front? I got a grey one that is tagless, just like WordPress.
Synchronize Bookmarks
I’ve rediscovered the Firefox Bookmark Synchronizer and it really rocks. I’ve got it to save on close and reload on open so all of the computers I regularly browse on will always have the latest and greatest and greatest bookmarks. I can use bookmarks for cross-computer notes and to-read lists now, too. Another killer app for Firefox. Update: Link updated, should work now.