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The Well Defined Lines of Blogging
This article was originally published on March 24, 2005 and is being republished as part of the Technosailor 3-year Blogiversary series. Enjoy! A timeless quote… Blogging is a developing medium, but at the same time it is well established. The players that were in existence in 2003 have now been changed due to acquisitions and…
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Democracy Abhors Undue Secrecy
This article was originally published on September 30, 2004 and is being republished as part of the Technosailor 3-year Blogiversary series. Enjoy! Finally, my Patriot Act provision whipping boy has been ruled illegitimate and unconstitutional. According to U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrerro, the Patriot Act provision allowing federal officials to gain access to private…
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Blogiversary Revisits
This Sunday, I’ll be celebrating three years of blogging. In previous years, I’ve rehashed the years gone by. This year, however, I want to do things a little differently. Over the next five days, today included, I will be republishing articles I’ve written over the three years of blogging at Technosailor. Though the focus of…
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10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2
Ah, the time has come again. So soon at that. Imminently, a new WordPress release comes to our doorsteps (It’s being given a final once over by testers – Update: It’s here). Since WordPress has gone into a 120-day release cycle (plus a few weeks in this case), the feature list is shorter but more…
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Concept to Code in Three Days
You might think this is another techy post. It is not. However, Sean’s is and describes the amazing job the tech team did in driving a concept that needed to be driven, to finished and polished production code in three days flat. This saved our servers, I can assure you as, for several weeks we’ve…
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Customized WordPress: Reasons for Doing It
In this series, in which all entries are linked to at the bottom of this post, we have examined the technical implementation of creating your own WordPress repository. But we have yet to say why it might be worth it. I’ll be honest, in most cases there is no good reason to do it. The…
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NYC Blog Bash
In case you had not heard the buzz, b5media is putting on Blog Bash 07 in NYC. It’s June 9 (Saturday) at the Doubletree on Lexington and 51st St. Cost is a mere $100. We’re getting a website together for the event that will have all the info and registration info available. Speakers will be…
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Customized WordPress: Applying Patches to WordPress
We’ve talked a lot already about basic subversion, creating a WordPress repository and bundling externals such as plugins. This will accomplish most of what you probably want or need to do with a Custom WordPress repository. However, there may be modifications that you’d like to integrate into the core – perhaps patches that you’ve worked…
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Customized WordPress: SVN Externals
Let’s say you have a WordPress repository (because you previously set one up) and you have a firm understanding of the basics of Subversion. You’re almost to the point where you can begin customizing WordPress for your own use. Being an employee of a blog network, I’d prefer if this was used for your own…
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Customized WordPress: Setting up an SVN Repository
As we progress toward a customized WordPress repository, a journey we began last time with some basic Subversion 101, we’ll need to take another intermediate step and study the subversion intermediate course. While SVN 101 gives us a good jumping off point, that really doesn’t get us anywhere near customized WordPress. To do that, we…