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Jun 12, 2009
WordPress
It’s funny how only now when WordPress has been updated and many plugins have stopped working, people realize how important and significant the plugins are.
Show your love for open source — say Thanks and donate. Get the developers’enthusiasm flowing.
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Jun 11, 2009
WordPress
Ever since using the nightly versions of WordPress, I got used to doing regular updates and not checking if all plugins work fine afterward.
Therefore only today I discovered that leaving comments on this blog has been impossible for a while already. Turns out that changes in the WordPress core have made the OpenID plugin unaware of the comment author’s name and e-mail.
Haven’t found a solution yet. Read more »
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Jun 9, 2009
Design
Is Apple really going in the footsteps of Microsoft by creating more and more version of essentially the same product? When seeing iPhone 3G S for the first time I immediately associated “S” with size Small.

These days no one considers a phone “smart” if it’s slow or doesn’t have support for 3G. So what does Apple exactly mean by saying iPhone 3G Speed? Where the previous versions slow?
How about calling it iPhone 4, 5, 6, … n.
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May 23, 2009
Free Software, WordPress
If you want to know what the spirit of GPL and Free Software is, listen to what Stephen Fry and Richard Stallman have to say. These ideas are so simple and amazing at the same time that no rule or license can fully define them. You have to sense them.
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May 17, 2009
WordPress
If you are using my Widget Context plugin and you have just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 Beta, please use this new version of Widget Context plugin.
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May 12, 2009
WordPress
Quick Reply Templates is a really useful WordPress plugin by Paul William that allows you to have a predefined comment reply template, such as <a href="#commend-id">@Name</a>, that will be filled out automatically when you reply to a comment within your WordPress Dashboard or Edit Comments page. Read more »
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May 11, 2009
Web Design
I have never used them, and here is why you shouldn’t use CSS @imports too. Via Monday By Noon.
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May 6, 2009
Design, Media & Publishing

Digital Britain logo
While the ideas behind the Digital Britain initiative are really great and noble, its logo is quite the opposite — what is the connection between a flash drive and an open access to information and its distribution networks?
Every letter in the logo is supposed to symbolize a node attached to Britain’s information network, which sounds like a good explanation until you put it on a USB thumb drive. Read more »
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May 2, 2009
Web Design
For illustrating anchor links in some cases you might want to use bottom-border instead of a default text-decoration:underline. In order to achieve that, one would use the following CSS rule:
a { text-decoration:none; border-bottom:2px solid; }
which also adds border to the bottom of all linked images. In order to remove it, you would think that setting
a img { border:none; }
would be enough. Read more »
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Apr 29, 2009
Web Design, WordPress
After looking at all the submissions for the WordPress Admin Design Tweak Poll I have updated my entry leaving Panel and Help buttons as they currently are in WordPress 2.7.1. The only change necessary in HTML structure would be moving #favorite-actions out of #wphead-info. Read more »
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