WordPress keeps evolving and getting better and better. The current production version is 2.5.1 and 2.6 beta 1 has been hot off the presses for a few days now, and I thought I'd take the time to remind folks how to run it locally so you can play. I currently use XAMPP Lite 1.6.6a for running WordPress locally. For those wondering, locally means on your C: drive under Continue Reading
Archives for June 2008
Are You Plurking Kidding Me?
Here's another 140-character social media site to hang out at called Plurk. Plurk is like Twitter in that you have 140-characters to write a message. With Plurk however, you have a timeline that scrolls from left to right, most recent Plurks on the left and historical plurks on the right. So when you hold your mouse down on the timeline, you can scroll to the right through Continue Reading
Firefox 3 to Set a Guinness World Record
It's been dubbed Download Day 2008 and that magical day is Tuesday, June 17, 2008, where Firefox creators want to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period. The current count of folks who have pledged to download Firefox 3 stands at 1,425,827 as I write this. The site they have set up to track how many people Pledge to download Firefox 3 during Continue Reading
Keeping Design Simple
Here's an excellent video on Web Application Usability presented by 37Signals Ryan Singer. Below the video are some points from the presentation. Anyone who is involved with how software works should keep this close at hand. It's an excellent presentation on keeping it simple when designing software and concrete examples of what keeping it simple means. Three points Continue Reading
Show The Count of Your Twitter and Plurk Followers
Just like displaying your Feedburner subscribers on your blog, here's a great way to show your twitter and Plurk followers as well. For Twitter: Browse to www.twittercounter.com. Plug in your twitter username and click Show stats. Copy and paste the generated code into your website or blog. That's it. Don't forget to check out the other buttons Continue Reading