Molly dumps her brain after Web Design World, a very worthwhile read from one of the most insightful people in the industry.
Attacking the Source
1.2.2 Upgrade
Attention.xml
I finally got a chance to read through Attention.XML that Tantek has been bugging me to look at for a while. It’s a lot like OPML except more verbose and I don’t have any toolkits that work with it easily. On the other hand it has some excellent ideas with regards to extensibility and I could see supporting this for something like updating WordPress’ link times, if it could be done elegantly. Groups are a little confusing, but I just read on the Technorati list they’re cleaning that up. I’m going to their holiday party later with Cheyanne so I hope to learn more.
Jabber and WP?
Peter Saint-Andre thinks there are some cool integration possibilities between Jabber and WordPress and I’m inclined to agree. I’m “jabbering” now, on the development mailing list, and reading through the specs, so we’ll see what comes of it.
UsableType
UsableType looks interesting and runs WordPress, though you have to dig to their about page to find that out. Hat tip: Chris.
WP Forums
Review of the WordPress forums. It seems that most people either love or hate the forums, we’re working on addressing every single question more.
Northwestern Blogs
A professor at Northwestern is going to be experimenting with blogs and installing WordPress for her students. Very cool.
WordPress Portfolio
This portfolio doesn’t look like a blog but was done entirely in WordPress, not even using the new features from the upcoming 1.3.
Gentoo Installs
I just found out the WordPress ebuild for Gentoo was grabbing the files off of Sourceforge instead of the standard download method that lets me collect cool stats. Installing WordPress on Gentoo is just a matter of typing “emerge wordpress
” and those people weren’t being counted before. Currently the zip version is downloaded about two and a half times more than the tar.
SlimServer
Slim Server is “powerful and free Open Source software. Not only will it power Squeezebox, but it also serves the SLIMP3 network music player or any software MP3 player on your network. SlimServer runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Solaris.” I’m going to set up the software a little later, and the Squeezebox looks pretty sweet too. Something for the wishlist. Might be the answer to my multi-room audio problems.
Spam Philosophy
Serendipity takes a moment out of the day for a philisophic interlude from “providers of fine online gambling services.” Ha!
Ideas
Things I need to blog before I forget: (1) Cocoa gui for SSH tunnelling — profiles, status menu (2) Mac OS X port of myTunes redux (3) Replication plugin for WordPress — plugin file captures _POST/_COOKIE headers and replicates to an array of other installations, allows WP to be massively redudant and scalable with only commodity shared hosting.
WordPress on French ISP
Michel points out that WordPress is now a one-click install on one of France’s largest ISPs.
Zeldman on Kinja
The Zeldman on Kinja isn’t the real Zeldman. Of course we’re all making the problem worse by googlebombing blogging the faux Zeldman.
Yahoo Media RSS
Yahoo Media RSS model, doesn’t look final yet. This would be an excellent oppurtunity to get some accesibility-related things into a module that will likely be widely adopted. I’ll have to join the discussion group.
WordPress 1.2.2
WordPress 1.2.2 is available with some bug and security fixes. Get it while it’s hot!
Fewer Bugs in Open Source
Research proves what open source folks have been saying all along: “An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts.”
Better Web Browser
How to build a better web browser, a really great essay highly relevant to several issues at hand.