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  • Playing with WordPress 3 Beta

    One of the things that I’ve been working with in the Faculty here is rolling out a WPMU service. One of the biggest pains of the service has been that it is lagging behind regular WordPress which means themes, plugins and the rest are always “stepchildren” of the main branch. But that is no longer…

  • WordPress for Android

    Well, after a couple of false starts, I am finally able to post from the app. It is very much like the Blackberry app that I grew quite fond of, but with a few unique hiccups. First, when you are setting up the blogs, you need to have a solid connection as the app tends…

  • Connected with Facebook Comments TNG

    One of my laments about Facebook is that it is a walled garden, and if someone comments in FB, it’s not reflected on the blog, until now. I’ve found this cool plugin that seems to do the trick and via Gravatar, show where the comments originate. There is no support for likes right now, but…

  • Changes with 2.8

    Last week, in addition to the noise around Facebook, there was also another vanity URL oriented geek event. WordPress 2.8 was released and it was the first time since 2.7 that a full .X upgrade was available to users over the new automated update system. In typical WordPress fashion, everything generally went smooth (one install…

  • My first trip on my 4th Safari

    Arg! This seems to sum up my first run tests for Apple’s latest Chrome motivated kick at the browser can. Now, with IE8 out (and Gazelle on the way), Chrome 2 coming, FF3.1 almost there (depending on what day you catch the developers), Safari 4 beta rounds out the crowd of popular browsers that are…