Month: June 2011

  • Make the Web, Cloud Do Your Work So You Don’t Have To

    Make the Web, Cloud Do Your Work So You Don’t Have To

    Photo by Balleyne While perusing around the web yesterday (after sifting through my email post-vacation), I came across this Ars Technica article discussing the new Firefox upgrade timeline. It actually follows a similar upgrade timeline that WordPress adopted after WordPress 2.0 was released. The new policy outlines a 3-4 month window for new major releases with…

  • Real Ale 15th Anniversary

    Real Ale 15th Anniversary

    I love Texas beer. This weekend, my friend Melanie paid a visit to Austin from San Francisco and we decided to head out to Blanco, TX to participate in the Real Ale 15th Anniversary celebration. Enjoy these photographs, but remember: You are not allowed to use these for commercial purposes or without giving me credit.…

  • WordPress Release Word Clouds

    WordPress Release Word Clouds

    Yesterday, I published the 12th in an ongoing series of blog posts since December 26, 2005, where I take my own look at major WordPress releases and write a hopefully helpful article about features. It’s the routine, and now expected, “10 Things You Need to Know” posts. Out of morbid curiosity, I decided to run…

  • 10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 3.2

    10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 3.2

    Photo credit Randy Stewart. WordPress 3.2 will be released soon (at the time of this writing, it is in RC1 which essentially means it is done and being tested). This is an exciting release as it marks the first release that drops PHP 4 dependency. For years, WordPress has opted to play to the lowest…

  • Fact Checking in the Internet World

    Fact Checking in the Internet World

    Like many other industries, journalism has undergone a vast paradigm shift in the last decade. Like advertising, the music and film industries, marketing, public relations and virtually all other professional fields, journalism has had to adjust to a new “immediacy” brought about by the Internet. Now, by all reports, most people get their news from…