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  • Free and Open

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    Eric Mann

    I write software for a living. 聽Not something I ever expected to do for a career, but it happened and I’m fairly good at it. I also write software as a hobby. 聽Different languages and platforms – working with a diverse set of tools makes me a better developer. 聽I also聽give away most of the

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  • Data versus Meaning

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    Eric Mann

    At a conference last week, I was subjected to all kinds of talks on data, data integrity, data storage, data聽in the cloud, and data-centered design patterns. 聽One speaker summed things up perfectly: If you make the center of your world聽data, then everything else becomes easy. This got me thinking. 聽From a computer-centric viewpoint it all

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  • Post Supplements – A Concept

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    Eric Mann

    A few months ago, WordPress UX Lead Jane Wells posted a request to WordPress’ Trac ticketing system. 聽The idea was to find a better way to insert “stuff” below WordPress posts: Inserting the sharing and like rows at the bottom of the post text before the byline/classification metadata seems wrong. It should go below that,

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  • WordPress Portland

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    Eric Mann

    As promised, here is the code for my demo of adding feature pointers to WordPress in version 3.3 And again, please do not use these in distributed plugins/themes. 聽They’re only slated for Core at the moment, but if you feel that they’ll help in your custom theme/plugin development with clients, feel free! [cc lang=”php” width=”580″]

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  • Security Vulnerabilities

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    Eric Mann

    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. 聽The

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  • Keeping it Realtime – Day 2

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    Eric Mann

    I will once again be liveblogging the Keeping it Realtime conference in Portland, Oregon. 聽If you want to catch up with yesterday’s stream, feel free. 聽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 鈥淚magining the

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  • Keeping it Realtime

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    Eric Mann

    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. 聽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. 聽On the other

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  • WordPress Weekly

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    Eric Mann

    Last night, I had the opportunity to talk with Jeff Chandler on the weekly podcast WordPress Weekly. 聽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? 聽Does it matter how many plugins your site runs? It was a fun chat,

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  • Live Blogging – AJAX Polling

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    Eric Mann

    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聽http://live.gizmodo.com/. 聽It’s a really basic page, but it updates

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