I was reading this article and, in my opinion, it got the facts right but their conclusion is backwards: Meanwhile, whilst this particular unlock is the simplest, it also carries with it element of risk that you’re going to want to protect yourself against. What? No that’s not the correct conclusion. A conclusion that would make more sense is that [...]

Today, I am venturing outside my usual programming and open-source path and I am going to share my experience speeding up my iPhone with you. I am not going to write a long article where I copy/paste what everybody else has already written about how slow iPhone 3G’s can get when running iOS4. It is now a well established fact. [...]

Update:Now a few days later, Thesis has been GPL’d and there isn’t much left to say on this topic. However, for the sake of clarity, I would like to revisit a statement I made below: if Thesis contained *no* original WordPress code, considering that it is distributed on its own, and not shipped with a copy of WordPress, I am [...]

I am happy to announce the release of the WordPress plugin “Page-Theme” v1.3. This version is a full rewrite. Its features are: Define themes on a per-page basis Define themes on a per-post basis (new) Support for SEO-friendly permalinks Support for basic permalinks (new) Full integration with posts and pages screens in the admin control panel (new) There should also [...]

Until now, this freebie has been known only to my Twitter followers, but considering the positive feedback it received, I am going to put it out there for everybody: a few months ago, being disappointed with the lack of true rich-text editing provided by typical blog editing tools, I started work on mine. It’s still a very unambitious thing but [...]

When you play with an 800-pound gorilla, sometimes, you have to accept that the gorilla will inadvertently stomp on you. After a couple months spent researching a possible strategic realignment, we have decided that it would not be reasonable to spend more time and money on Twitterified, at least not in its current incarnation. On April 4th 2010, Fred Wilson, [...]

I was quite surprised, when looking for a way to assign different themes to some pages, to not manage to find an easy way to do that. It is not baked into WordPress, and I could not find a suitable plugin either. I had, a while ago, created a tiny plugin that did just that for me but it was [...]

This is not a real article per se. It is more intended to be a conversation because Twitter would make this a tad difficult, with its 140 characters limit. Two notes on moving to multisites: 1. WordPress 3.0 final has not been released yet; I have no idea whether a safe upgrade can be guaranteed after enabling multisites 2. Multisites [...]

That’s something I had to do myself recently. It was not quite as painful as I feared it to be. My aging WordPress install had certainly gone through its share of hacking: I started with a 1.x version, added multi-blog plugins, uninstalled them, moved to WordPress MU, then back to single-blog WordPress. In the process I wrote scripts to rename [...]

Google Analytics. I’m sure you’re already familiar with it. If not, just know that it’s a free service that gives you a pretty accurate idea of why people visit your blog, whether they, in fact, visit it at all, and what kind of demographics they represent. Unless you already use a better, but not free, analytics service, you really have [...]