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I will once again be liveblogging the Keeping it Realtime conference in Portland, Oregon. If you want to catch up with yesterday’s stream, feel free. Otherwise, stay tuned for more today! You can also leave comments at the bottom of the feed … — 4:56 pmNext on the schedule is Jack Moffitt on “Imagining the
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Today and tomorrow I’ll be at the Keeping it Realtime conference in Portland, learning about all the cool new interfaces available for a real-time web. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish my liveblogging plugin before today … so you’ll be stuck hitting F5 repeatedly to get update from me in this space. On the other
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I find new ways to challenge my faith in the oddest of places. Lately, though, it was a random political conversation I had with some friends on Twitter. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you might have missed the “Occupy Wall Street” movement sweeping across America. It’s something I’ve
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Last night, I had the opportunity to talk with Jeff Chandler on the weekly podcast WordPress Weekly. We talked about a lot of things: should automatic WordPress updates be opt-in or opt out? Will/should Automattic ever be acquired by another organization? Does it matter how many plugins your site runs? It was a fun chat,
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I’m in the midst of developing a real-time publishing system, and I wanted to give an example of what it is and why I want to do it. Gizmodo’s live blog Today, Apple is promoting a live press event, and Gizmodo is live blogging their coverage on http://live.gizmodo.com/. It’s a really basic page, but it updates
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I originally started blogging with WordPress via the one-click installer that came standard with a basic Network Solutions website. It’s been several years since then, and I definitely advise against getting started that way. There are better hosts out there, and better server systems. Take your pick. For the past year, I’ve been running my blogs
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My day job has primarily consisted of migrating an old-school ASP.Net WebForms website to a new ASP.Net MVC application. This has involved a massive layout/structure redesign, database overhaul, and a lot of custom coding. I’m mostly happy with how I structured the MVC-based content management system. It’s very similar to WordPress … only written in
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Yesterday, we were bouncing ideas back and forth on Twitter regarding a specific ticket on WordPress’ Trac system. At one point, a developer lamented the fact that Twitter didn’t automatically link “#18149” to http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18149. I jokingly commented that someone should come up with a Chrome extension to do just that. Apparently, something that does that already exists.
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Ten years ago today was picture day at my high school. Despite everything else that happened on September 11, 2001, we all still gathered in the Auxiliary Gym to take our annual year book photos. Business as usual, except for the tone that overtook the entire day. In every class we sat glued to CNN
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I wasn’t born with an abundance of patience. As a kid, I could rarely sit still for more than 5 minutes at a time, I stayed up all night in anticipation of big events, and I’d often ask “are we there yet” before we got to the end of our street. Not an atypical story