Old Toys Tagged "wordpress"
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 7th, 2008 6:44 am
Many will regret (or will lie and say they were there) missing last night’s presentation performance by Jim Groom and Tom Woodard as the norm-blowing closing act for the 2008 NMC Rock the Academy Symposium. You have to wade through this blog post to get to the video recording
Donning their gas masks, flame [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 25th, 2008 8:58 pm
I just whipped up the puniest of WordPress hacks for the ultimate reasons, to serve myself. If I knew what I was doing, it would be a plugin, but I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Here’s the thing. Whenever I write something, i like to reference by link a previous post. So I [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 11th, 2008 8:30 pm
Just got word via the tweetvine from Dave Lester that the first ever WordCamp Ed (WordCamp Education) is happening in Washington, DC, on November 22 at George Mason University.
WordCamp Ed is a WordCamp focused entirely on educational uses WordPress — in schools and universities. The inaugural WordCamp Ed will be held at George Mason [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 18th, 2008 10:29 pm
photo credit: lordog
Continuing the gastronomic theme for my WordCamp experience, here are a few quick things I took away from the experience (for complete coverage, see Andrew Mager’s live blogging)
WordCamp’s t-shirt colors (brown this year) seem to follow directly the lead of Northern Voice
Almost everyone I met was with some company, [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 18th, 2008 9:09 pm
To say I had a great time this past weekend at WordCamp would be an understatement. Beyond the gathering of 400 other WP junkies, there was getting to meet all the Automatticians (and fascinating to learn they work as a completely decentralized organization; 30 some employees strung across the US, Canada, Bulgaria, Australia, Japan…).
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 1st, 2008 12:04 am
While I tinker with them, I’ve yet to code my own WordPress plugin. There are so many to choose from!
A few weeks ago I got an email from a guy named Joe who I had met at Northern Voice. He was developing a plugin that would connect blog posts automatically to related content in a [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 31st, 2008 11:31 pm
Besides manually updating six separate instances WordPress (to version 2.6) in the NMC fleet of sites, I also finally paid some over due attention to the version of WordPressMultiUser I have had up since November 2007. This tool some rustling to get it to the right version and also what had not been done in [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 27th, 2008 10:48 pm
I’m loading up my duffle bag with mosquito repellent, mess kit, multi-tool, flashlight, sleeping bag, laptop, blog…. woah woah… well I am not taking all that stuff but I am going to camp… WordCamp! WordPressCamp!
Thanks to a direct message nudge from @lloydbudd as a reminder, I hemmed and hawed and then just spelled [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this March 31st, 2008 12:11 am
WordPress 2.5 has been out a few days, what am I waiting for? Actually for my Dreamhost hosted sites, the upgrade is a brainless click with its One Click install/upgrades. I am done.
Well not completely, the whole admin interface is different! It has that new car WordPress.com smell, the old blue is gone, we [...]
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