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Out of the blue today, a user of one of my plugins contacted me to ask why I was so slow in patching a security vulnerability in my system. The question came as a complete surprise. Apparently, back in January, someone discovered a potential security hole in one of my plugins, WP Publication Archive. The
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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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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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At my day job, I’m responsible for bringing our various web products up to modern standards. Right now, that involves pulling our old website off a static, table-based system built with FrontPage and executing a new design using ASP.NET MVC 3. It’s been a fun project so far, except for one major hang-up. We have
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Last week we covered how to publish a WordPress plugin using Subversion. But many of us aren’t using Subversion. I know that after I started using version control, I quickly graduated to Git and Mercurial for managing distributed development. It makes it easier for me to collaborate with others, and makes it easier for other people