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+INSERT INTO `wp_comments` VALUES (4,3,'Jordan','JByro1@newhaven.edu','','64.252.35.243','2005-08-21 09:16:55','2005-08-21 13:16:55','Very sexy indeed. Again Bob and I would like to thank you for letting us mooch the space for a while. Even when we move over to UNH\'s servers, we will always provide a link back to where ever you home on the internet may be for all your help.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2','',0,0),(6,9,'Jordan','JByro1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-12 15:20:25','2005-09-12 19:20:25','I just used this in my C Lab and was out of there in 15 minutes. It took me longer to login then to do the lab. Yay for Intro to C!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2','',0,0),(7,12,'Nick','NZura1@newhaven.edu','','69.37.10.184','2005-09-20 17:04:05','2005-09-20 21:04:05','Wow that was great. While I did indeed have no clue about what the \"Network Status\" email said, you explained it in such a simple way that I understand now. Even though I am a commuter student and this really had no effect on me, I think that it is great that you stood up for yourself and the rest of the University in order to get things fixed that are much more important then some of the other things going on there (e.g. planthing tons of new bushes and shrubs). I support your effort and appreciate you telling things like they really are. Thanks',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1)','',0,0),(8,12,'Ryan','rluck2001@yahoo.com','','66.30.123.186','2005-09-20 17:09:09','2005-09-20 21:09:09','WOW.  You lost the internet for two hours and you couldn\'t play dungens and dragons online.  Next time maybe you should just go outside and enjoy the day rather then spending time and filling up everyone email with your sob story of how you miss the internet.  At least the technology department fixes issues in a timely mannor...just wait for the housing lottery or course selection...',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(9,12,'Jordan','JByro1@gmail.com','http://jordan.stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-20 17:20:20','2005-09-20 21:20:20','Ryan. Congratulations, most of the time I do not waste my time responding to \"Simple\" people like you, but for some reason I too what you said about Greg and what he is doing in the wrong aspect. \r\n\r\nI will agree, to a close-minded person such as yourself, that is all you see the Internet being used for. Some people, myself included, use the Internet for work. I am fortunate enough to be able to work remotely from school using the university’s Internet connection. Lucky for me, I chose to go into the office this weekend and do some onsite administrative tasks. Had I not, I would have been unable to perform my job.\r\n\r\nAlso, perhaps you were not around on the weekend when the entire network went on the fritz, but the weather was terrible. I would love to know how you enjoyed a nice rainy day outside. \r\n\r\nMy last point; this email that Greg sent out was one of the only emails sent by a student that I found relevant to EVERYONE. Sure, some people may like cars, and some people may want to play in the band, but everyone who checks their mail uses the Internet. So if there is anyone you should be complaining about, it is not Greg and his “Crusade”.\r\n\r\n-  Jordan Byron\r\nunhmb.stonecode.org',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1','',0,0),(10,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','65.75.17.113','2005-09-20 17:42:38','2005-09-20 21:42:38','Thank you for your comments.\r\n\r\nFor the individual who accused me of perpetual D&amp;D playing, you clearly did not read my email.  The 2 hours lost prevented me from running a meeting with several commuters as well as students on or off campus for those interested in technology here on campus and around the area.  This literally made the meeting (which I was supposed to run) impossible.\r\n\r\nAnd actually, I was outdoors for the duration of the time the outage happened, because I quite enjoy being outside whenever I can.  But that doesn\'t mean I shouldn\'t be able to educate people while doing so!\r\n\r\nAnd for me, my work resides on the computer.  As far as housing lottery or course selection go, I\'m aware this is a nightmare for some, but honestly, I\'ve had no friction in it.\r\n\r\nBut nevertheless, I welcome your criticism.  Maybe next week I\'ll tell the 13 members of my group that we can\'t have a meeting because I\'m out picking flowers or something.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4','',0,2),(11,12,'Alana','AAndr1@newhaven.edu','','68.63.96.216','2005-09-20 18:13:46','2005-09-20 22:13:46','While I appreciate your concerns, I do not appreciate the e-mails you are sending out.  The UNH e-mail system is not really intended for people to voice their opinions on various issues.  The system is set up for organizations and faculty to get important information to students.  Some people choose to use it for other purposes, such as trying to sell their car, or in your case, to complain.  All this does is irritate people and discourage them from using the UNH e-mail system.  Please do not continue to send mass e-mails because you are angry about something.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MSOCD; AtHome020; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(12,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','65.75.17.113','2005-09-20 18:24:26','2005-09-20 22:24:26','In the beginning of the semester, we were told to use it to contact other students and make announcements.  (Such as my announcement regarding why my meeting for UNH Students was canceled which was the primary point of that message).  I realize that my initial email was harsh but it served it\'s purpose in generating awareness among students.  I hardly consider this an abuse of the system, however, I do try to keep my usage of it to a minimum, moving public discussion here for instance.\r\n\r\nThe fact that there was more to the story than the tech department let us know I considered important information which should be distributed to the student body.    You may disagree, however I know that a sizeable portion of the community was appreciative of my efforts, due to the 5 emails, 7 instant messages, and two positive comments on the board.\r\n\r\nIf 14 people were positively effected by my message, I see it is a perfectly reasonable use of a system that is designed for such a use.  If it were not, students would not have access to the aggregators.\r\n\r\nI do wholeheartedly agree that selling cars and conducting other personal business should be done elsewhere.  But my message addressed two relevant things, A campus group that was supposed to meet but did not, and an announcement that did not completely explain the situation.\r\n\r\nFor you to say this isn\'t fair use of the system is not justified as far as I see it.  After all, we all do have that wonderful \'delete\' key at our disposal.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4','',0,2),(13,12,'Bobby','rbove1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-20 18:45:05','2005-09-20 22:45:05','seriously get a life man...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)','',0,0),(14,12,'Jordan','JByro1@gmail.com','http://jordan.stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-20 19:05:03','2005-09-20 23:05:03','Yay! Lets degrade the discussion to personal attacks and useless slander! It is amazing to see this type of behavior among students from the same University I attend. It really makes me proud of the high standards this school sets for incoming and current students.\r\n\r\nI’ve always looked away and said, “this doesn’t happen much”, whenever I see people like Bobby on campus.  The fact is that there is a minority of “Bobbies” on campus. Without getting totally off topic, I would like to challenge those of us who don’t subscribe to the “Bobby” pathology. Rise above their antics and calmly remind them that high school is over, and the time to “grow up” has long past.\r\n\r\nI am still disheartened by those of us who don’t have the common curtsey to be aware of others around them. We live, sleep, eat, and learn together; be aware of that!\r\n\r\nI am proud of UNH, and in the time I have been here, I can see it going somewhere. The freshman these years are very ambitious, and it seems like soon we will have a club for just about everything. \r\n\r\nI will admit, it is a little annoying to see emails about clubs that I have no interest in, but I keep an open mind. I really don’t care what the pastry-baking club is doing next Thursday. I do however acknowledge the power of UNH email, and how it can be used to access students never before available.\r\n\r\nSo please, keep open minds, and just use the Delete Key!!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1','',0,0),(15,12,'Bill','Wdund1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-20 19:15:31','2005-09-20 23:15:31','I am not what you consider a huge techie, do i code no, can I repair them yeah, And the Internet in this Place is Appualing.  To most the Internet  is just Iming and E-mail and people just can\'t live without that,  but you got a point there are actually some of us who actually use the internet for other useful things.  And I\'ll be honest people call it a \"cursade\" I call it a wake up call, anytime I have gone to tech services, to see what they say any time my perfectly working PC goes on the blink when I go on their netowrk  and see what they say and when I leave my head hurts.  From asking why are they thinking that and  two voicing a complaint whith a service organition on campus is 1 freedom of speech, as was noted we have a delete key and two we pay to come here they help us  if we  voice enough difaction with the current people, new competent people maybe hired.   That\'s all I am saying.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(16,12,'Sean','seanwurster@hotmail.com','','68.63.139.164','2005-09-20 19:35:02','2005-09-20 23:35:02','Maybe we will have to go back to the old days when we actually had to meet at the library or talk to a real person when a group had to meet or a discussion had to take place...oh the horror! Don\'t become too dependent on the internet learn to adapt for Pete\'s sake!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(17,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','65.75.17.113','2005-09-20 19:38:00','2005-09-20 23:38:00','Our group consists of experts from out of state and people who cannot readily get to campus.  However, we do have weekly on campus meetings, albiet without the members who can only realistically telecommute.\r\n\r\nThe online meetings are intended to suppliment our on campus meetings and allow more people to be involved.  Since it\'s a programming group, the internet does play a giant role in what we do.\r\n\r\nPlease at least acquaint yourself with the situation before you pass judgement.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4','',0,2),(18,12,'Rob','rcani1@newhaven.edu','','65.75.17.113','2005-09-20 19:40:36','2005-09-20 23:40:36','Before I start, I have one thing to say to everyone: to each his own. I don\'t believe in bashing people just because of the things they do or don\'t become involved in. Even if you believe that someone is over-indulgent in something, who are you to judge that person?\r\n\r\nPutting that aside, because it seems that this blog was meant to discuss technical issue at UNH and its effect on the student body, I believe that the mass email to the student body is justified. This problem goes so much farther than two hours of non-existent internet service; I agree whole-heartedly that there are serious problems with the network that need to be addressed. I\'ll admit that i don\'t entirely understand all of the problems with the system. I\'ll be frank; i don\'t understand them at all. But I believe its the school\'s responsibility to hire someone who does understand the problem, and the students\' responsibility to recognize problems and bring it to light. \r\n\r\nEven thought the internet crash didn\'t affect me, as I am a commuter student that was sleeping at home during the crash, I am relieved to seey students who are actually taking part in the community and expresses their opinions on this topic.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3','',0,0),(19,12,'Allen','wtf9862@yahoo.com','http://allen.stonecode.org','69.0.120.222','2005-09-20 19:48:50','2005-09-20 23:48:50','While a minority of students have decided to use this forum as a place to spread their antipathy towards Greg, I would like to take this time to commend him for his efforts thus far.\r\n\r\nNot only did Greg show the power of the student body at UNH, he unraveled the esoteric language chosen by the Tech Deptartment, and shared this information with the UNH community. \r\n\r\nWhile I am a commuter, and was not effected by the lack of a network, I know how detrimental loss of Internet access is for those of us who utilize the Internet for business and programming purposes. As a writer who uses the Internet as his chief form of communication with employers and potential employers, the inability to perform work is akin to not showing up to a job. In short, it makes you seem unreliable.  While I realize some of you can not grasp that concept. it is not a matter of playing games or not having the Internet for the Internet\'s sake, it is about losing money, and business. In Greg\'s case it is a matter of being unable to partake in a project that benefits a certain technical community.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616','',0,0),(21,12,'Erica','ECove1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-20 22:05:53','2005-09-21 02:05:53','Hello\r\n\r\nI just wanted to let you know as  Senator in USGA to come to meetings to vent your frustrations and issues.  Also, the library and student center had internet and that is always an option.  I know its frustrating because I had to do my work in the library but the IT staff has been working extra hard to fix the issues that was out of their control.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; AT&T WNS5.0; SV1)','',0,0),(23,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-20 22:21:36','2005-09-21 02:21:36',' Though I appreciate the suggestion, due to various reasons, my group is not registered with the USGA nor do I intend to do so.   As an individual, I prefer the direct route to the source of problems, which is why I contacted Alan and Greg.  They provided me with sufficient information to form this article.\r\n\r\n The Library, Student Center, Engineering Labs, and CS Labs were all without internet.  The entire network was down from 9:00pm to 11:00pm sunday.\r\n\r\nI\'ve spoken to the IT staff.  There was a SCHEDULING issue that prevented this from being handled timely, and if you read through the article you just commented on, you would have seen that.\r\n\r\nAs a side note to the individuals who have abused this forum with racist or obscene remarks, auditing software is installed on this system to prevent abuse, and I will report any further abuse I find.\r\n\r\nOtherwise, I encourage everyone elses comments, even if they are criticism or suggestions.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0.4','',0,2),(25,12,'Diane','dbuno1@newhaven.edu','','64.252.56.88','2005-09-21 08:00:53','2005-09-21 12:00:53','\r\nPersonally, coming from a state university where apathy towards everything is commonplace I find it refreshing to see that someone actually has an opinion about something and doesn\'t mind taking action. My own personal view is that too many people find it an easier undertaking to sit idly by while the rest of the world makes decisions that directly effect each of us and then quietly complain/or not about the end result. \r\nI think there is a much larger issue here than is being addressed. First, it is everyone\'s right, especially in this collegiate setting, to have an opinion and rights and to be able to freely voice/defend both. If there were more people like Greg who were passionate about something perhaps the changes that everyone sought would happen in a more timely fashion. From my own personal viewpoint, students have become so reliant upon others making decisions for them that they blindly accept anything that is spoon-fed to them and don\'t question anything. I\'ve seen more people agree with nonsense or take it as \"fact\" when in actuality what they were being told was simply not logical or even remotely feasible. \r\nNow on to my next point. Again, as a student coming from a state university outages were quite commonplace and the only way a student could find out what the problem was we had to contact the university ourselves. Ever try to get an actual human on the phone in a state university? It\'s like trying to ambidextrous violin player in a crack house. In light of that fact, I did think that while the email from the Techno-geek staff was mildly confusing I did however, appreciate that they sent out even the smallest tidbit of an explanation. I thought that in itself was the responsible thing to do.\r\nIn closing I will add that to personally attack people in a sophomoric fashion for having an opinion is not only embarrassing to the author, but is not representative of the intellectual integrity of the student population at UNH. For those who think otherwise, have a beer and turn on Southpark - they\'re always on.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(26,12,'Sam','samilionester@yahoo.com','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-21 15:34:55','2005-09-21 19:34:55','Why hasn\'t anyone asked the obvious question related to this situation? The University never has enough money to do this, or that, or the other. This is always the excuse I hear. So why is this the case? Is it not a known fact that the University earns upwards of around 30,000 per student per year?!  At the school I attended before this one I was paying around 2,000 per year, and I never had any complaints as far as facilities, networks, parking, etc. etc. etc. go. At the school I attended before this one, the computer lab was in a huge beautiful building with state of the art computers, rather than in a trailer with half-par computers. Also, every classroom was a \"smart classroom\" and this was back in 2002 and 2003, and that was not to mention that the entire campus had wi-fi access. \r\n\r\nDon’t get me wrong I have noticed the improvements that have been made, and I have been happy with them, but nevertheless, if I\'m paying 15 times the amount I was paying at my former school, shouldn\'t I be getting 15 times the education, 15 times the facilities, 15 times the parking, and 15 times the network reliability?!\r\n\r\nAgain, don\'t get me wrong, I do like this University a lot. I must say, the professors make all the difference, but I can\'t help but ask the question, where is our money going? We aren\'t paying much less than Yale students pay, but are we getting even near what Yale students get?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(27,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-21 16:31:49','2005-09-21 20:31:49','Yeah, the \"bush and tree\" fund is something many people, including myself are curious about.  It seems as if the priorities of the University are placed slightly more on the first impression of students rather than the lasting impression of the current students.  It\'s understandable that this is important to some extent, but it doesn\'t mean they should neglect critical services to do so.  From the rumor mill, I\'ve heard that the technology department\'s funding has not been lowered in exchange for campus beautification, but the fact that it hasn\'t increased along with the increased need is troubling to me.  The bottom line is, if the school wants to experience growth, they can\'t just slap up a few extra residence halls and leave out the tremendous additional support structure necessary.  It\'s a vicious cycle, but hopefully things like this will help bring light to the issue.\r\n\r\nMy question to you about your former school is whether it was a public school.  If it was, my answer to your expectations is a simple \"no\" because the schools are funded substantially by the government while private institutions for lack of a better term need to pimp themselves to rich alumni to get most of their funds.   However, if it was a private school, we should be on the phone with them figuring out how the hell they fund themselves so well!\r\n\r\nMy feeling at UNH is that it\'s important to get students to come here, but even more important to keep them, and to do that, we need to take care of what really matters first, before we put a nice icing on the cake.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6','',0,2),(28,12,'Kevin Laroche','Klaro1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-21 16:42:17','2005-09-21 20:42:17','Hey greg, I can assure that Greg Bartholemew is doing everything in his power to keep the network running smooth. Unlike most of the people that comment or even those who start topics like this, I actually work in Unh It dept.  I see things on both sides and i can assure you that you are being rediculous.  It is understandable to be upset for not having an active internet connection but there\'s no need to go pointing fingers and that\'s excatly what you\'ve done.  Greg B has a job to do and he does it well in my opinion. If you want to point your finger you can point it at Extreme Networks b/c that the hardware that failed.  Next time you should be considerate before you get unruly and have an apparent breakdown.  Let me know what you think.  My ext is 7306 \r\nThanks, \r\nKevin \r\n\r\nps. Have a nice day on the interent since now it has been fixedd',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5','',0,0),(29,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-21 17:06:33','2005-09-21 21:06:33','I am thankful that Greg and Alan were more professional than you were.  The finger I point is only at whoever mismanaged scheduling which caused the excessive delay.  Greg recognized the points that I had to make about student relations, and I can tell by his emails to the campus that he put some effort into being more sensitive to student needs than he did before this chaos ensued.  If you read through the entire post above, I never accused Greg or Alan of not working hard.  As far as I\'m concerned, I am happy that the new part is in place and that the opinions of the student body have been voiced, and that it certainly seems that the technology department has listened.  Now, if only the university would address issues on funding, this situation would be ideal.\r\n\r\nBy calling me ridiculous and clearly not fully reading my article, you certainly do not reflect your department well.  However, I must reiterate that both Alan and Greg were as professional as I could expect two individuals in high positions under pressure could be.\r\n\r\nAnd for those who assume that this rant was without dialogue between myself and the IT department (which is what you suggest), that is simply not true.\r\n\r\nI talked to both Alan and Greg and got answers to all of my questions before I stated my opinion on this weblog.\r\n\r\nThat having been said, the commotion this has caused is certainly overwhelming.  I\'d be happy simply to let it rest at this point with the lessons learned by myself, the student body, the technology department, and the university preserved.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0.4','',0,2),(30,12,'Kevin Laroche','Klaro1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-21 17:11:59','2005-09-21 21:11:59','Just to clarify I\'m a work study student and My reply to your blog doesn\'t represent the It dept in anyway.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5','',0,0),(31,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-21 17:16:49','2005-09-21 21:16:49','I made that assumption by your comments, but I\'m thankful that you cleared that  up.  As far as anyone who is concerned about my experience or credentials, I am a COMPTIA A+ Core/OS and Network+ Certified Professional.  I\'ve worked as the night administrator/technician on a network with over 1600 machines, and am currently a freelance programmer under the employ of B-Tree Technologies.  So it\'s not like I just said, \"y0 d00d my 1nt3rn3t izn\'t w0rkingz\" \r\n\r\nThat having been said, there are more interesting problems to confront at this university, and it appears like the majority of this one has been solved, so lets let my poor webserver have a rest, unless you have something new and interesting to say.\r\n\r\nI do appreciate everyone who left constructive comments on this blog, whether or not they were in agreement with my point of view.\r\n',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0.4','',0,2),(32,12,'Pete','unh@charter.net','','24.6.190.33','2005-09-21 18:20:51','2005-09-21 22:20:51','Greg! Keep up the good work!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3','',0,0),(33,12,'Ryan','rkeri1@newhaven.edu','','192.132.64.2','2005-09-22 12:30:53','2005-09-22 16:30:53','Ok, I understand that the network went down for a long time over the weekend. I am a resident who stays on campus. I was a little sad that it went down and a little frustrated. However i got a lot of homework done.\r\n\r\nA few points of note. We aren\'t a large state university like UConn or PennState, therefore, we do not get state funding for technology like UConn or PennState does. Tuition at private universities like this one and University of Hartford is always higher than State Universities. We pay a lot of money, and banks pay the rest. However i do not thnk that because a lot of money is paid on our behalf(i personally only know of one person who doesn\'t get any financial aid) I don\'t think that gives us a \"right\" to internet access. I see it more as a privilage, such as driving a car.\r\n\r\nI also see the internet becoming more and more like the \"Easy\" button you see on the Staples commercials. It\'s very easy to host online meetings instead of local meetings. More people can attend who wouldnt be able to otherwise. You can talk to all your friends at once and get help with homework you are having trouble with without having to run all over campus. But i think too many of us rely too much on the internet and when our \"Easy\" button breaks we panic and aren\'t sure what to do.\r\n\r\nAlso, i was told that working for anyone outside the university from my dorm using the internet was prohibited as well as setting up a business from within my dorm and using the internet connection to promote it was also prohibited.\r\n\r\nGreg, i know your group isn\'t registered with the USGA and i don\'t blame you, there is a lot of administrative paperwork that needs to be done and its only worth it if you are a larger club on campus. But that doesn\'t mean you aren\'t allowed to go to the USGA and let them know that you think what happened was rediculous and should be fixed. You should go and stand up for your rights, if that is what you truely wish to do. Go the USGA and tell them that you want more school funds diverted to maintaining our network and reducing downtime.\r\n\r\nI\'ve had problems with the campus network myself before and including this latest time, but i\'ve emailed Greg B and Alan personally without including the entire student body, and i think that is where a lot of angry with you. You mentioned that the person who works for the IT department that responded here was unprofessional in their responce to you, but i feel that you were unprofessional including the entire student body in what appears to be a rant about our technology department.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(34,12,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-09-22 13:32:46','2005-09-22 17:32:46','My first email to the student body (which is what I suspect caused this outrage) was certainly uncalled for and overly biased.  However, the account in this article does have inforrmation that is of value to the student body which they would not otherwise have been exposed to.  You\'re certainly right when you say that by venting my frustrations to the student body and pointing the finger at the technology department was unfair.  I should have emailed them privately, collected the information, and then passed only the second email that led people here.   I do think that the information in this article (along with the voice of the student body) holds incredible value that cannot be found in direct one on one discourse or with the USGA.  My means to get here however, were indeed unprofessional, and were the result of frustration and poor judgement.\r\n\r\nIt seems as if this thread has become more of a discussion about the USGA than it is about the Network outage.  I will post a comment with a link to a thread regarding the USGA when I get a chance to start one, because I would like to voice my opinions regarding the matter and moreso (because I know little about the organization) request the opinions of others on the matter.\r\n\r\nHowever, until then, let\'s refrain from discussing the effectiveness of the USGA on this article\'s thread, as it is certainly off topic.\r\n\r\nThank you for your insightful response.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0','',0,2),(35,16,'Jordan','JByro1@gmail.com','http://jordan.stonecode.org','69.177.127.78','2005-10-04 12:33:49','2005-10-04 16:33:49','How did you get those reports? Is that something I can run for UNHMB??? We currently use extremetracking.com, and it works, but if I can use a native service and remove that unsightly link from our main page, Iwould prefer it!\r\n\r\nVery cool to see Firefox in the lead, and Macs in a close second in OSs',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7','',0,0),(36,16,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-10-04 13:07:37','2005-10-04 17:07:37','I can add you as a user, but I\'m not sure if I can filter it by subdomain :-/',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0','',0,2),(37,16,'Jordan','JByro1@gmail.com','http://jordan.stonecode.org','69.177.127.78','2005-10-04 13:18:44','2005-10-04 17:18:44','Ah that is all right. It just looked nice. But thanks anyway!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7','',0,0),(38,20,'Pete Johanson','crazzypeat@yahoo.com','','69.37.151.75','2005-10-13 21:03:53','2005-10-14 01:03:53','Hey man im finaly checking your page out and its pretty nifty. Im just wondering how you are doing with all of the travel? I mean you are in safe hands right? I dont want anything to happen to you! Hey and if you ever make it to mexico have some tequila (or however you spell it) for me! Oh and eat the worm too ;) lol just joshing. So anyways get back to me ASAHP (as soon as humanly possible). I miss you! We all miss you! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4','',0,0),(39,27,'Jim Weirich','jim@weirichhouse.org','http://onestepback.org','65.88.180.234','2005-10-17 09:14:24','2005-10-17 13:14:24','You can find the source code to the Rubic\'s cube demo at http://onestepback.org/articles/lingo/rubiks/index.html',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10','',0,0),(40,31,'Gary Blomquist','garyblomquist@yahoo.com','','64.139.74.96','2005-11-09 09:28:50','2005-11-09 13:28:50','Is there a mailing list or web site for the group?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(41,31,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-11-09 10:04:04','2005-11-09 14:04:04','NYC.rb has a yahoo group:\r\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/ruby-nyc/\r\n\r\nour group here in CT has a google group:\r\nhttp://groups.google.com/group/New-Haven-Ruby-Brigade?lnk=li\r\n\r\nand a wiki:\r\nhttp://newhavenrubyists.org',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0.4','',0,2),(42,33,'Aslak Hellesoy','aslak.hellesoy@gmail.com','http://aslakhellesoy.com','80.111.11.252','2005-11-09 11:00:46','2005-11-09 15:00:46','These are not mocks, but stubs (aka fakes)\r\n\r\nhttp://www.jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf\r\nhttp://www.martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html\r\n\r\nAslak',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4','',0,0),(43,33,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-11-09 11:07:52','2005-11-09 15:07:52','Damn.  I wasn\'t exactly sure if they were mocks or stubs, but now I  know :)\r\n\r\nSo this article should really be called \"Stop Stubbing Me!\"\r\n\r\nI even got the semantics right in MockReport by calling MockDB fakeDB....\r\n\r\nIn Ruport 0.3.0 you\'ll see FakeReport and FakeDB, to correct the nomenclature.\r\n\r\nUnless of course, you\'ve got ideas for some real mocks. :)\r\n\r\nThanks for pointing this out, and for the great resource.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0','',0,2),(44,21,'dustin chapman','trevor@chello.nl','http://www.sun.com','196.7.0.160','2005-11-11 14:42:50','2005-11-11 18:42:50','you have some really cool stuff at your site. i\'m sure gonna come back here. think that will make relief: http://www.apple.com , <a href=\"http://www.yahoo.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\">think that will make relief</a> , <a href=\"http://www.av.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">black girls on their mission</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)','',0,0),(45,7,'Daniel Baumann','Eric@yahoo.com','http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Lily_Tomlin','218.38.160.84','2005-11-11 14:43:29','2005-11-11 18:43:29','Great blog. It\'s nice to be here! Discontent makes rich men poor: http://www.bartleby.com/100/ , <a href=\"http://www.quotegallery.com/asp/apcategories.asp?author=BenjaminFranklin\" rel=\"nofollow\">A good conscience is a continual Christmas</a> , <a href=\"http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Einstein\" rel=\"nofollow\">Few people are capable of expressing</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)','',0,0),(46,6,'Gabriel Drake','Samuel@discovery.com','http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Mackay','196.7.0.160','2005-11-11 14:44:16','2005-11-11 18:44:16','It was fun visiting here. Wishing you a great day! Content makes poor men rich: http://www.bartleby.com/100/ , <a href=\"http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Einstein\" rel=\"nofollow\">which differ from the prejudices</a> , <a href=\"http://www.aphids.com/cgi-bin/quotes.pl?act=ShowListingsForSub\" rel=\"nofollow\">although I am bringing a change of underwear</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(47,3,'Richard Baker','Benjamin@internet.com','http://news.linux.com/news/05/10/10/0213220.shtml?tid=96','196.7.0.160','2005-11-11 15:15:09','2005-11-11 19:15:09','Very nice. I hope you\'ll update very soon. It\'s impossible to experience one\'s death: http://www.useful-information.info/quotations/life-quotes.html , <a href=\"http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Mackay\" rel=\"nofollow\">it has been well said</a> , <a href=\"http://www.aphids.com/cgi-bin/quotes.pl?act=ShowListingsForSub\" rel=\"nofollow\">The only thing you take with you</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(51,35,'Jeremy Campbell','Dylan@gmail.com','http://www.sun.com','196.7.0.160','2005-11-13 03:03:06','2005-11-13 07:03:06','Cool site! I\'ll be back. my parents didnt told me about it: http://www.adobe.com , <a href=\"http://www.apple.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">black girls on their mission</a> , <a href=\"http://www.av.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">my parents didnt told me about it</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)','',0,0),(50,33,'Zachary Bartrim','Jesse@gmail.com','http://www.adobe.com','196.7.0.160','2005-11-12 16:06:31','2005-11-12 20:06:31','Two thumbs up!!! black girls on their mission: http://www.panasonic.com , <a href=\"http://www.av.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">thins that excited you at 14</a> , <a href=\"http://www.sun.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">think that will make relief</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1)','',0,0),(52,31,'joshua brown','michael@msn.com','http://www.yahoo.co.uk','196.7.0.160','2005-11-13 03:04:12','2005-11-13 07:04:12','cool stuff. keep up the good work. substances that cure you: http://www.sun.com , <a href=\"http://www.adobe.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">my parents didnt told me about it</a> , <a href=\"http://www.av.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">my parents didnt told me about it</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)','',0,0),(53,9,'kevin allison','travis@gawab.com','http://www.pmai.org','196.7.0.160','2005-11-18 03:39:36','2005-11-18 07:39:36','you have some really cool stuff at your site. i\'m sure gonna come back here. while they only recover: http://www.worldlighthouses.org , Bad Opponents is always Greedy Boy <a href=\"http://lighthousing.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">while they only recover</a> , Win TV is very good Girl <a href=\"http://psa-eid.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(54,7,'logan clark','joseph@internet.com','http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/handbook.htm','70.137.164.19','2005-11-18 03:39:53','2005-11-18 07:39:53','two thumbs up!!! most people are even incapable: http://www.ipl.org/div/light , Bad is feature of Coolblooded Cards <a href=\"http://www.womeninphotography.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">i do not believe in an afterlife</a> , when Slot is Girl it will Hope Soldier <a href=\"http://www.pmai.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">a good conscience is a continual christmas</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1)','',0,0),(55,6,'daniel adams','andrew@internet.com','http://lighthousing.net','219.93.174.105','2005-11-18 03:40:16','2005-11-18 07:40:16','you have some really cool stuff at your site. i\'m sure gonna come back here. if you can\'t pay for a thing, don\'t buy it: http://www.seathelights.com , Destroy Forecast Lose - that is all that Chips is capable of <a href=\"http://www.worldlighthouses.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">while they only recover</a> , Green, Industrious, Small nothing comparative to Lazy <a href=\"http://www.lhdigest.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">it\'s the other lousy two percent</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)','',0,0),(56,4,'richard chapman','cameron@chello.nl','http://www.worldlighthouses.org','211.56.248.38','2005-11-18 03:40:29','2005-11-18 07:40:29','good work. i like your site. the best condition in life is: http://psa-eid.org , right Cards will Steal Table without any questions <a href=\"http://www.pmai.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">only while the sun shines</a> , when Mistery is Game it will Percieve Circle <a href=\"http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/handbook.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">how linux thin-clients benefit schools</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(57,13,'Jeremy Ford','Richard@gmail.com','http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/handbook.htm','219.93.174.107','2005-11-18 03:41:11','2005-11-18 07:41:11','Very original content. I really like your site. Discontent makes rich men poor: http://www.seathelights.com , Anticipate Corner is very good Cards <a href=\"http://www.pmai.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Be at war with your vices</a> , Cards will Mistery unconditionally <a href=\"http://www.womeninphotography.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">It\'s impossible to experience one\'s death</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(58,15,'evan ballard','kenneth@chello.nl','http://www.institutions.org.uk','196.7.0.160','2005-11-18 06:46:21','2005-11-18 10:46:21','you\'re doing a great work here. i enjoyed visiting here very much. thanks! black girls on their mission: http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk , Small, Collective, Bad nothing comparative to Central <a href=\"http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/visit/history.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">thins that excited you at 14</a> , Game will Chair unconditionally <a href=\"http://www.nhm.ac.uk/info/history/build.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">think that will make relief</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)','',0,0),(59,13,'sean moore','stephen@msn.com','http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/handbook.htm','200.21.18.135','2005-11-19 03:43:51','2005-11-19 07:43:51','it was fun visiting here. wishing you a great day! i do not believe in an afterlife: http://www.womeninphotography.org , Tremendous Round is always Coolblooded Cards <a href=\"http://www.worldlighthouses.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">while they only recover</a> , Curious is feature of Red Opponents <a href=\"http://www.lhdigest.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">ninety-eight percent of the adults</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(60,9,'jordan chapman','alex@gawab.com','http://www.lhdigest.com','200.21.18.135','2005-11-19 03:43:51','2005-11-19 07:43:51','you have some really cool stuff at your site. i\'m sure gonna come back here. i do not believe in an afterlife: http://www.womeninphotography.org , International Girl Compute or not <a href=\"http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/handbook.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">hacking opensuse</a> , Corner can Percieve Grass <a href=\"http://www.worldlighthouses.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">they go mad in herds</a>',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)','',0,0),(64,40,'Greg','gregory.t.brown@gmail.com','http://stonecode.org','192.132.64.2','2005-12-08 08:52:51','2005-12-08 12:52:51','hmm.... sounds interesting.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0','',0,2),(63,40,'Asger Ottar Alstrup','aalstrup@laerdal.dk','','85.82.1.195','2005-12-08 05:07:37','2005-12-08 09:07:37','What about JSON support?\r\nhttp://www.crockford.com/JSON/index.html\r\n\r\nJSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.\r\n\r\nThere is a Ruby library for JSON:\r\nhttp://json.rubyforge.org/',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5','',0,0),(65,46,'VovaBob','KuzaMom@yahoo.com','http://pd1.funnyhost.com','68.4.221.55','2005-12-25 21:59:36','2005-12-26 01:59:36','http://pd2.funnyhost.com\n	<a href=\"http://pd3.funnyhost.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">desk3</a>\n	[url=http://pd4.funnyhost.com]desk4[/url]\n	[link=http://pd6.funnyhost.com]desk6[/link]',0,'spam','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)','',0,0),(66,47,'Simon Harris','simon@redhillconsulting.com.au','http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/blogs/simon','220.238.180.238','2005-12-25 23:54:22','2005-12-26 03:54:22','I feel your pain. On Friday 23rd December I used my laptop to check my email @ home, put it to slee, went into work and attempted to awaken it but alas it was no more.\r\n\r\nSo I initiated plan A: rush it off to the \"hospital\". Unfortunatley the prognosis was not good--4 to 5 weeks.\r\n\r\nI then switched to plan B: emergency purchase of a 20\" G5 iMac.\r\n\r\nThanks to my handy contacts and calendar info on my iPod I was able to get back up and running in about 2 hours.\r\n\r\nAnd the world is good again. Though I will need to work my butt off to pay for it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/416.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.13','',0,0);
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We&#8217;ve been working long and hard to bring you this release, and I hope you enjoy using it as   much as we&#8217;e enjoyed working on it. In this release we&#8217;ve focused a tremendous amount on what   we believe to be the core of blogging &#8212; the writing interface.  Before you upgrade from an earlier version, remember that this is a major release and   thousands of lines of code have changed. Before upgrading it&#8217;s always good, <em>just in   case</em>, to make a backup of your database and WordPress files. It only takes a few minutes   and gives you a total safety net if for whatever reason things don&#8217;t work. It is also probably   a good idea to turn off your plugins, and activate them one-by-one after you&#8217;ve upgraded.   Without further ado, you can <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">download WordPress 2   right now</a>. 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That&#8217;s probably a good thing.</p>\n<p>Something that was conspicuously left out of the WordPress core (yes, it was on purpose) was a way to manage Roles as an administrator.  Well, add this <a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager\">Role Manager plugin</a> to the list of new WordPress 2.0 plugins.</p>\n<p>Note that this plugin does not really <em>do</em> anything but manage roles.  If your blog has no need to maintain Roles (for example, if you&#8217;re the only author) then you don&#8217;t need this plugin.  But if you have plugins that depend on capability levels, or you want to manage groups of user permissions, then this will allow you to do that.</p>\n<p>More details about how the plugin works and what you can do with it are available on the <a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager\">documentation site</a>.  This includes not just the admin user interface, but also instructions for how your plugin can cleanly add new capabilities to WordPress that the Role Manager will display in its interface.</p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http://xmouse.ithium.net/\">David House</a> who helped with a substantial bit of coding on this one.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:38:33 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1272:\"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a strange upshoot in new and updated plugins released around the WordPress 2.0 milestone.  That&#8217;s probably a good thing.</p>\n<p>Something that was conspicuously left out of the WordPress core (yes, it was on purpose) was a way to manage Roles as an administrator.  Well, add this <a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager\">Role Manager plugin</a> to the list of new WordPress 2.0 plugins.</p>\n<p>Note that this plugin does not really <em>do</em> anything but manage roles.  If your blog has no need to maintain Roles (for example, if you&#8217;re the only author) then you don&#8217;t need this plugin.  But if you have plugins that depend on capability levels, or you want to manage groups of user permissions, then this will allow you to do that.</p>\n<p>More details about how the plugin works and what you can do with it are available on the <a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager\">documentation site</a>.  This includes not just the admin user interface, but also instructions for how your plugin can cleanly add new capabilities to WordPress that the Role Manager will display in its interface.</p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http://xmouse.ithium.net/\">David House</a> who helped with a substantial bit of coding on this one.\n</p>\";}i:1;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:31:\"Mike Little: WordPress 2.0 Duke\";s:4:\"guid\";s:66:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/12/31/wordpress-20-duke/\";s:4:\"link\";s:66:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/12/31/wordpress-20-duke/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3576:\"<p>Although it has been available for a few days now, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/\">WordPress 2.0 &#8216;Duke&#8217; </a> is now official.</p>\n	<p>In fact has already had been <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/counter/\">downloaded more than 33,000 times</a> as I write this! You can <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">download it</a> from the revamped <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress.org</a> web site. </p>\n	<p>There is a lot of new code in this release, most of which is concerned with either the Administration interface, especially the <abbr title=\"What you see is what you get\">WYSIWYG</abbr> write interface, or under the hood stuff which will benefit plugin and theme developers. There are a whole bunch of bug fixes too.</p>\n	<p>There are some very compelling reasons to upgrade to this new version, but there are a whole bunch of reasons to hold off too: <a id=\"more-1170\"></a></p>\n	<p>The biggest bug-bear for me is that the <strong>Write Post page is no longer usable if you cannot use a mouse</strong>. At least, out of the box it isn&#8217;t usable (you cannot tab out of the text area for the post). If you cannot use a mouse and have to use the keyboard for input, then you need to turn off the WYSIWYG editor. Tab to the Users page, uncheck the &#8220;Use the visual rich editor when writing&#8221; checkbox, and update your profile. </p>\n	<p>Once you have done that you can at least write and publish plain posts. Alas you still cannot upload images or other media with the new interface. That still requires the use of a mouse.</p>\n	<p>I&#8217;m a strong believer in accessibility in applications, be they web- or desktop-based. I think computers, and especially computers in combination with the Internet, are a great leveller. Disabled people who perhaps cannot function too well in the physical world have a much more level playing field in the online world. Or at least that&#8217;s the theory.</p>\n	<p>WordPress 1.5.2 is a reasonably accessible application (albeit not too user friendly for those who cannot use a mouse). More by virtue of it being pretty standards compliant than by design.  WordPress 2.0 is no longer accessible. </p>\n	<p>By adding a JavaScript based Visual Editor and a bunch of sexy looking draggable, expandable controls, the application has been rendered <strong>unusable in its single most important function: posting to your blog!</strong> </p>\n	<p>It&#8217;s a real shame, because the improvements in WordPress 2.0 are many, and some of them, like the post preview now using your theme, are killer.  The new user roles and capabilities too are a great new idea and will lead to some good functionality for multi-author and community blogs. </p>\n	<p>The way uploaded images and other media are handled is much more sophisticated now: they are sub posts and can thus be displayed separately from the post which contains them and have their own comments.</p>\n	<p>Another reason to be cautious about upgrading is that some of your plugins may no longer be compatible. There are a whole bunch that have been <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility\">checked against 2.0</a>, but there are a whole lot more which haven&#8217;t.</p>\n	<p>In conclusion, if you are thinking about upgrading to 2.0, make sure you create  a backup first. Turn off all your plugins, and even switch back to the default theme. Then upgrade and turn on your plugins one at a time. Checking nothing breaks after each one. Finally switch back to your theme and have a final check.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:17:54 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:3576:\"<p>Although it has been available for a few days now, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/\">WordPress 2.0 &#8216;Duke&#8217; </a> is now official.</p>\n	<p>In fact has already had been <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/counter/\">downloaded more than 33,000 times</a> as I write this! You can <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">download it</a> from the revamped <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress.org</a> web site. </p>\n	<p>There is a lot of new code in this release, most of which is concerned with either the Administration interface, especially the <abbr title=\"What you see is what you get\">WYSIWYG</abbr> write interface, or under the hood stuff which will benefit plugin and theme developers. There are a whole bunch of bug fixes too.</p>\n	<p>There are some very compelling reasons to upgrade to this new version, but there are a whole bunch of reasons to hold off too: <a id=\"more-1170\"></a></p>\n	<p>The biggest bug-bear for me is that the <strong>Write Post page is no longer usable if you cannot use a mouse</strong>. At least, out of the box it isn&#8217;t usable (you cannot tab out of the text area for the post). If you cannot use a mouse and have to use the keyboard for input, then you need to turn off the WYSIWYG editor. Tab to the Users page, uncheck the &#8220;Use the visual rich editor when writing&#8221; checkbox, and update your profile. </p>\n	<p>Once you have done that you can at least write and publish plain posts. Alas you still cannot upload images or other media with the new interface. That still requires the use of a mouse.</p>\n	<p>I&#8217;m a strong believer in accessibility in applications, be they web- or desktop-based. I think computers, and especially computers in combination with the Internet, are a great leveller. Disabled people who perhaps cannot function too well in the physical world have a much more level playing field in the online world. Or at least that&#8217;s the theory.</p>\n	<p>WordPress 1.5.2 is a reasonably accessible application (albeit not too user friendly for those who cannot use a mouse). More by virtue of it being pretty standards compliant than by design.  WordPress 2.0 is no longer accessible. </p>\n	<p>By adding a JavaScript based Visual Editor and a bunch of sexy looking draggable, expandable controls, the application has been rendered <strong>unusable in its single most important function: posting to your blog!</strong> </p>\n	<p>It&#8217;s a real shame, because the improvements in WordPress 2.0 are many, and some of them, like the post preview now using your theme, are killer.  The new user roles and capabilities too are a great new idea and will lead to some good functionality for multi-author and community blogs. </p>\n	<p>The way uploaded images and other media are handled is much more sophisticated now: they are sub posts and can thus be displayed separately from the post which contains them and have their own comments.</p>\n	<p>Another reason to be cautious about upgrading is that some of your plugins may no longer be compatible. There are a whole bunch that have been <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility\">checked against 2.0</a>, but there are a whole lot more which haven&#8217;t.</p>\n	<p>In conclusion, if you are thinking about upgrading to 2.0, make sure you create  a backup first. Turn off all your plugins, and even switch back to the default theme. Then upgrade and turn on your plugins one at a time. Checking nothing breaks after each one. Finally switch back to your theme and have a final check.</p>\";}i:2;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"Dev Blog: WordPress 2\";s:4:\"guid\";s:45:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/\";s:11:\"description\";s:8670:\"<p>The WordPress community is very proud to present the next generation of WordPress to the   world, our 2.0 &#8220;Duke&#8221; release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer <a href=\"http://www.dukeellington.com/\">Duke Ellington</a>.   We&#8217;ve been working long and hard to bring you this release, and I hope you enjoy using it as   much as we&#8217;e enjoyed working on it. In this release we&#8217;ve focused a tremendous amount on what   we believe to be the core of blogging &#8212; the writing interface.  Before you upgrade from an earlier version, remember that this is a major release and   thousands of lines of code have changed. Before upgrading it&#8217;s always good, <em>just in   case</em>, to make a backup of your database and WordPress files. It only takes a few minutes   and gives you a total safety net if for whatever reason things don&#8217;t work. It is also probably   a good idea to turn off your plugins, and activate them one-by-one after you&#8217;ve upgraded.   Without further ado, you can <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">download WordPress 2   right now</a>. Read on for more information about what we think you&#8217;ll love about Duke.</p>\n<p><a id=\"more-177\"></a></p>\n<h3>User Features</h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Completely Redesigned Backend</strong> &#8212; The first thing you&#8217;ll notice when you login to your   blog is the backend has been completely overhauled for both aesthetics and usability. This is   the first iteration of exciting things to come from the Shuttle team of designers that has   been volunteering their time, and look for even more aesthetic improvements in the   future.</li>\n<li><strong>Faster Administration</strong> &#8212; Call it AJAX, call it DHTML, call it Larry, but we&#8217;ve paid close   attention to streamlining some of the most common tasks in managing your blog. For example if   you&#8217;re writing a post and you can add categories on the fly, much like tagging in Flickr. Also   instead of having two separate UIs for &#8220;simple&#8221; and &#8220;advanced&#8221; posting, we&#8217;ve combined them   and let you customize the layout of the page on the fly by dragging and dropping the dialogs   around. It saves where you put things so when you return it&#8217;s just like you left it. When you   delete a comment or category it will fade out without a page load.</li>\n<li><strong>WYSIWYG Editing</strong> &#8212; WP dev Andy Skelton and the TinyMCE team have done a tremendous amount   of work to bring a smooth WYSIWYG editing experience to WordPress. As code purists, we are   very picky about what kind of HTML is generated, and while it&#8217;s not perfect yet (for instance   nested lists can cause trouble) for 95% of what you do post-to-post the WYSIWYG should save   you time. And if it doesn&#8217;t, you can turn it off on your profile page. One note: Safari and   older versions of Opera, both fantastic browsers, don&#8217;t yet support everything that&#8217;s needed   to do WYSIWYG, but we fully expect new versions of those browsers will continue to improve   their standards support, so it may just be a matter of time.</li>\n<li><strong>Included Spam and Backup Plugins</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve included two of the most popular WordPress   plugins: Skippy&#8217;s DB backup can backup your database to a file and optionally email you a   copy; Akismet is a distributed anti-spam system which gets smarter the more people use   it.</li>\n<li><strong>Resizable Editing</strong> &#8212; This is one of my personal favorite features. Ever been writing a   post and that textarea seemed a little small? Happens to me all the time, and our new rich   text editor includes a feature that lets you resize the editor on-the-fly by clicking on the   corner, just like a regular window.</li>\n<li><strong>Inline Uploading</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve optimized our uploader for image, audio, and video files and   put it inline with the posting screen. You don&#8217;t have to bounce around any more when writing a   post! It also will organize your files for you as you upload them to make them easier to find   later. On the backend, each uploaded file is actually a &#8220;sub-post&#8221; so it can have individual   comments and pingbacks, its own permalink, and even a custom template based on what type of   file it is. You can click on attached files to get a menu of options, or if you&#8217;re on Firefox   you can drag and drop them into your WYSIWYG editor.</li>\n<li><strong>Faster Posting</strong> &#8212; In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot   of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything   was instantly done on the backend. We&#8217;ve modified how this works now so posting should be   near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress.</li>\n<li><strong>Post Preview</strong> &#8212; Another enhancement to the post screen, now when you save a post it shows   a live preview of how the post would look on your site, with the stylesheet and theme and   everything. No more publishing a post just to see if it works.</li>\n<li><strong>Streamlined Importing</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve rewritten our import system from the ground up to be much   easier to use (you no longer have to edit files), put it behind authentication, and also made   it easy for new importers to be dropped into the system, much like plugins.</li>\n<li><strong>User Roles</strong> &#8212; We had a ton of feedback on our old numerical user level system. No one was   exactly sure what those numbers meant! We&#8217;ve distilled the basic functions into a set of roles   &#8212; such as administrator, editor, contributor &#8212; that make it easier to understand what sort   of capabilities you&#8217;re giving your blog&#8217;s users. The new system is completely pluggable too,   so plugins can modify roles and create groups that have access to certain things.</li>\n<li><strong>Header Customization</strong> &#8212; If you&#8217;re tired of the blue header in the default theme, you can   now change the colors and text of it, which we&#8217;ve included as a demo of some of the new   features available to theme authors.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Developer Features</h3>\n<p>On the backend we&#8217;ve done a ton of changes to clean up code, make things more consistent, and   enable a lot of new types of applications to be built on top of WordPress.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>User Level Options</strong> &#8212; You can now store options on a <em>per-user</em> level rather than   having them apply for the entire blog. An example of this in WP2 is with the rich text editor,   which can be turned on or off per a user&#8217;s discretion.</li>\n<li><strong>Improved Abstraction</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve eliminated almost all direct SQL queries from the code and   moved them to functions and classes that make the entire program more consistent.</li>\n<li><strong>Built-in Caching</strong> &#8212; WordPress now includes a completely pluggable object cache system   that cuts the number of queries most pages do in half. By default it is disk-based, but there   is already a plugin to use memcached and we expect more are on their way. We&#8217;ve only begun to   tap into this.</li>\n<li><strong>Plugin Hooks Galore</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve added hooks for plugin authors wherever we could think to,   so what you&#8217;re able to do in the new system is pretty dramatic. Ne features like the WYSIWYG   and the inline uploader are completely pluggable and can be replaced entirely.</li>\n<li><strong>Import Framework</strong> &#8212; The new import framework allows you to create an importer with about   a third of the code you used to need, and it can have a consistent interface with no extra   work.</li>\n<li><strong>Theme Functions</strong> &#8212; Themes can now include a functions.php file that will now be loaded   like a plugin attached to the theme.</li>\n<li><strong>Theme preview images</strong> &#8212; You can now include a screenshot of the theme with the download   so in the WP interface your users will see a quick preview of what it looks like.</li>\n<li><strong>Hundreds and Hundreds of Bug Fixes</strong> &#8212; <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.0\">2.0 has hundreds of tracked bugs and   enhancements</a>, many that are very subtle.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>You may have noticed our design has changed quite a bit. We&#8217;ve also moved <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress.org</a> to a newer, faster server. There were a few issues with the move which is why we&#8217;ve held off for a few days on announcing 2.0. Everything seems to be smooth sailing now.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:47:10 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:8670:\"<p>The WordPress community is very proud to present the next generation of WordPress to the   world, our 2.0 &#8220;Duke&#8221; release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer <a href=\"http://www.dukeellington.com/\">Duke Ellington</a>.   We&#8217;ve been working long and hard to bring you this release, and I hope you enjoy using it as   much as we&#8217;e enjoyed working on it. In this release we&#8217;ve focused a tremendous amount on what   we believe to be the core of blogging &#8212; the writing interface.  Before you upgrade from an earlier version, remember that this is a major release and   thousands of lines of code have changed. Before upgrading it&#8217;s always good, <em>just in   case</em>, to make a backup of your database and WordPress files. It only takes a few minutes   and gives you a total safety net if for whatever reason things don&#8217;t work. It is also probably   a good idea to turn off your plugins, and activate them one-by-one after you&#8217;ve upgraded.   Without further ado, you can <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">download WordPress 2   right now</a>. Read on for more information about what we think you&#8217;ll love about Duke.</p>\n<p><a id=\"more-177\"></a></p>\n<h3>User Features</h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Completely Redesigned Backend</strong> &#8212; The first thing you&#8217;ll notice when you login to your   blog is the backend has been completely overhauled for both aesthetics and usability. This is   the first iteration of exciting things to come from the Shuttle team of designers that has   been volunteering their time, and look for even more aesthetic improvements in the   future.</li>\n<li><strong>Faster Administration</strong> &#8212; Call it AJAX, call it DHTML, call it Larry, but we&#8217;ve paid close   attention to streamlining some of the most common tasks in managing your blog. For example if   you&#8217;re writing a post and you can add categories on the fly, much like tagging in Flickr. Also   instead of having two separate UIs for &#8220;simple&#8221; and &#8220;advanced&#8221; posting, we&#8217;ve combined them   and let you customize the layout of the page on the fly by dragging and dropping the dialogs   around. It saves where you put things so when you return it&#8217;s just like you left it. When you   delete a comment or category it will fade out without a page load.</li>\n<li><strong>WYSIWYG Editing</strong> &#8212; WP dev Andy Skelton and the TinyMCE team have done a tremendous amount   of work to bring a smooth WYSIWYG editing experience to WordPress. As code purists, we are   very picky about what kind of HTML is generated, and while it&#8217;s not perfect yet (for instance   nested lists can cause trouble) for 95% of what you do post-to-post the WYSIWYG should save   you time. And if it doesn&#8217;t, you can turn it off on your profile page. One note: Safari and   older versions of Opera, both fantastic browsers, don&#8217;t yet support everything that&#8217;s needed   to do WYSIWYG, but we fully expect new versions of those browsers will continue to improve   their standards support, so it may just be a matter of time.</li>\n<li><strong>Included Spam and Backup Plugins</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve included two of the most popular WordPress   plugins: Skippy&#8217;s DB backup can backup your database to a file and optionally email you a   copy; Akismet is a distributed anti-spam system which gets smarter the more people use   it.</li>\n<li><strong>Resizable Editing</strong> &#8212; This is one of my personal favorite features. Ever been writing a   post and that textarea seemed a little small? Happens to me all the time, and our new rich   text editor includes a feature that lets you resize the editor on-the-fly by clicking on the   corner, just like a regular window.</li>\n<li><strong>Inline Uploading</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve optimized our uploader for image, audio, and video files and   put it inline with the posting screen. You don&#8217;t have to bounce around any more when writing a   post! It also will organize your files for you as you upload them to make them easier to find   later. On the backend, each uploaded file is actually a &#8220;sub-post&#8221; so it can have individual   comments and pingbacks, its own permalink, and even a custom template based on what type of   file it is. You can click on attached files to get a menu of options, or if you&#8217;re on Firefox   you can drag and drop them into your WYSIWYG editor.</li>\n<li><strong>Faster Posting</strong> &#8212; In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot   of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything   was instantly done on the backend. We&#8217;ve modified how this works now so posting should be   near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress.</li>\n<li><strong>Post Preview</strong> &#8212; Another enhancement to the post screen, now when you save a post it shows   a live preview of how the post would look on your site, with the stylesheet and theme and   everything. No more publishing a post just to see if it works.</li>\n<li><strong>Streamlined Importing</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve rewritten our import system from the ground up to be much   easier to use (you no longer have to edit files), put it behind authentication, and also made   it easy for new importers to be dropped into the system, much like plugins.</li>\n<li><strong>User Roles</strong> &#8212; We had a ton of feedback on our old numerical user level system. No one was   exactly sure what those numbers meant! We&#8217;ve distilled the basic functions into a set of roles   &#8212; such as administrator, editor, contributor &#8212; that make it easier to understand what sort   of capabilities you&#8217;re giving your blog&#8217;s users. The new system is completely pluggable too,   so plugins can modify roles and create groups that have access to certain things.</li>\n<li><strong>Header Customization</strong> &#8212; If you&#8217;re tired of the blue header in the default theme, you can   now change the colors and text of it, which we&#8217;ve included as a demo of some of the new   features available to theme authors.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Developer Features</h3>\n<p>On the backend we&#8217;ve done a ton of changes to clean up code, make things more consistent, and   enable a lot of new types of applications to be built on top of WordPress.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>User Level Options</strong> &#8212; You can now store options on a <em>per-user</em> level rather than   having them apply for the entire blog. An example of this in WP2 is with the rich text editor,   which can be turned on or off per a user&#8217;s discretion.</li>\n<li><strong>Improved Abstraction</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve eliminated almost all direct SQL queries from the code and   moved them to functions and classes that make the entire program more consistent.</li>\n<li><strong>Built-in Caching</strong> &#8212; WordPress now includes a completely pluggable object cache system   that cuts the number of queries most pages do in half. By default it is disk-based, but there   is already a plugin to use memcached and we expect more are on their way. We&#8217;ve only begun to   tap into this.</li>\n<li><strong>Plugin Hooks Galore</strong> &#8212; We&#8217;ve added hooks for plugin authors wherever we could think to,   so what you&#8217;re able to do in the new system is pretty dramatic. Ne features like the WYSIWYG   and the inline uploader are completely pluggable and can be replaced entirely.</li>\n<li><strong>Import Framework</strong> &#8212; The new import framework allows you to create an importer with about   a third of the code you used to need, and it can have a consistent interface with no extra   work.</li>\n<li><strong>Theme Functions</strong> &#8212; Themes can now include a functions.php file that will now be loaded   like a plugin attached to the theme.</li>\n<li><strong>Theme preview images</strong> &#8212; You can now include a screenshot of the theme with the download   so in the WP interface your users will see a quick preview of what it looks like.</li>\n<li><strong>Hundreds and Hundreds of Bug Fixes</strong> &#8212; <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.0\">2.0 has hundreds of tracked bugs and   enhancements</a>, many that are very subtle.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>You may have noticed our design has changed quite a bit. We&#8217;ve also moved <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress.org</a> to a newer, faster server. There were a few issues with the move which is why we&#8217;ve held off for a few days on announcing 2.0. Everything seems to be smooth sailing now.\n</p>\";}i:3;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Owen Winkler: Not installing WordPress 2.0?  Why?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:72:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/30/2188/not-installing-wordpress-20-why/\";s:4:\"link\";s:72:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/30/2188/not-installing-wordpress-20-why/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1225:\"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that a few people aren&#8217;t installing WordPress 2.0.  Rather, some folks have tried to install it and decided that it wasn&#8217;t ready for them yet.  Still other people have decided that 2.0 doesn&#8217;t offer them anything beyond what they were getting in the 1.5 code beyond an upgrade headache.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a few posts online [<a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/whats-already-broke-in-20/\">1</a>, <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/archives/2005/12/29/wordpress-20-15/\">2</a>, <a href=\"http://ijsm.org/archives/2005/12/29/what-wordpress-needs/\">3</a>, <a href=\"http://guff.szub.net/2005/12/29/hello-wordpress-20-are-you-there/\">4</a>] that talk about the problems they&#8217;ve had with 2.0 that have caused them to hold off.  But rather than dredge up those posts, I figured I would ask directly.</p>\n<p><strong>Why aren&#8217;t you upgrading?</strong></p>\n<p>I would specifically like to hear from folks who have <em>tried</em> to upgrade and then decided against it for some reason or other.</p>\n<p>Please&#8230; <em>Reasonable</em> objections.  I don&#8217;t want to get into a fight, I just want to understand why.  Perhaps the community can help work out those issues.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:15:12 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1225:\"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that a few people aren&#8217;t installing WordPress 2.0.  Rather, some folks have tried to install it and decided that it wasn&#8217;t ready for them yet.  Still other people have decided that 2.0 doesn&#8217;t offer them anything beyond what they were getting in the 1.5 code beyond an upgrade headache.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a few posts online [<a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/whats-already-broke-in-20/\">1</a>, <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/archives/2005/12/29/wordpress-20-15/\">2</a>, <a href=\"http://ijsm.org/archives/2005/12/29/what-wordpress-needs/\">3</a>, <a href=\"http://guff.szub.net/2005/12/29/hello-wordpress-20-are-you-there/\">4</a>] that talk about the problems they&#8217;ve had with 2.0 that have caused them to hold off.  But rather than dredge up those posts, I figured I would ask directly.</p>\n<p><strong>Why aren&#8217;t you upgrading?</strong></p>\n<p>I would specifically like to hear from folks who have <em>tried</em> to upgrade and then decided against it for some reason or other.</p>\n<p>Please&#8230; <em>Reasonable</em> objections.  I don&#8217;t want to get into a fight, I just want to understand why.  Perhaps the community can help work out those issues.\n</p>\";}i:4;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Alex King: WordPress 2.0 Tooltips are Wrong for Mac Users\";s:4:\"guid\";s:63:\"http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/12/30/wordpress-rte-tooltips/\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/12/30/wordpress-rte-tooltips/\";s:11:\"description\";s:913:\"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the inevitable .1 release before upgrading, but I&#8217;ve started testing <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\" rel=\"external\">WordPress</a> 2.0. One of the first things I noticed was that the tooltips on the new rich text editor are just plain wrong for Mac users - we gots no &#8220;Alt&#8221; key, yo!</p>\n	<p>Mentally replace &#8220;Alt&#8221; with &#8220;Ctrl&#8221; and you&#8217;ll be fine. I guess we know what platform Matt and company develop on. <img src=\"http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> </p>\n	<p>I created <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2182\" rel=\"external\">a bug in Trac</a> and I added a task for myself to create a patch for this (if no one else has), but probably won&#8217;t get to it until after <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/12/05/state-of-feedlounge/\">January 16th</a> at the earliest.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:17:42 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:913:\"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the inevitable .1 release before upgrading, but I&#8217;ve started testing <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\" rel=\"external\">WordPress</a> 2.0. One of the first things I noticed was that the tooltips on the new rich text editor are just plain wrong for Mac users - we gots no &#8220;Alt&#8221; key, yo!</p>\n	<p>Mentally replace &#8220;Alt&#8221; with &#8220;Ctrl&#8221; and you&#8217;ll be fine. I guess we know what platform Matt and company develop on. <img src=\"http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> </p>\n	<p>I created <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2182\" rel=\"external\">a bug in Trac</a> and I added a task for myself to create a patch for this (if no one else has), but probably won&#8217;t get to it until after <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/12/05/state-of-feedlounge/\">January 16th</a> at the earliest.\n</p>\";}i:5;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:74:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Plugins for the Admin Side of your Blog\";s:4:\"guid\";s:103:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/30/wordpress-plugins-for-the-admin-side-of-your-blog/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=554\";s:11:\"description\";s:2808:\"<p>For those who are not completely happy with the usability or the look and feel of the back office in their blog, there are a few plugins around, compatible with or made for Wordpress 2.0, that rework or enhance the admin area. I&#8217;ll name :</p>\n	<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.coldforged.org/paged-comment-editing-plugin/\">Paged Comment Editing</a><br />\nBy default, &#8220;Manage Comments&#8221; only list the 20 last comments. What if you were on offline holidays for a month and have a blog that receives quite a few feedback ? This plugin allows browsing of older comments with paging through them.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.agkamai.org/archives/780/cat2tag-v20-seta\">Cat 2 Tag</a><br />\nIf you create a lot of categories, this plugin makes selection easier when writing a post : a handy &#8220;tag cloud&#8221; avoids cumbersome scrolling through a long category list. There is also a fancy &#8220;suggest category&#8221; feature that proposes categories as you type them.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/\">Wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu</a><br />\nThe lazy and the productive will love it : you can go from any to any admin page without having to stop by the &#8220;top level&#8221; page first. For instance, no more loading &#8220;Manage&#8221; first , and then &#8220;Comments&#8221;, since all admin links are available in a CSS driven drop down menu (<a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/download/plugins/wordpress-admin-dropdown-menu-demo.html\">demo</a>). Admin menu the way it was meant to be (and even compatible with Tiger Admin)</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://orderedlist.com/articles/wp-tiger-admin-20/\">Tiger Admin</a><br />\nWhile adding no particular feature, this plugin completely revamp the admin part of your blog by heavily tweaking the CSS, giving your admin pages a brand new look (for Safari, Camino and Firefox only)</li>\n	</ul>\n	<p>If you are using a plugin that adds functionnalities or redesigns the admin interface, feel free to pimp it in the comments. Also, I advise plugin authors to update their plugin descriptions over at <a href=\"http://wp-plugins.net/\">WP-Plugins.net</a> once the administration pages will include &#8220;Wordpress 2.0&#8243; in the compatibility check list.\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/css\" rel=\"tag\">css</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/design\" rel=\"tag\">design</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+2+0\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress 2 0</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+admin\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress admin</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+plugin\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress plugin</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:00:16 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:2808:\"<p>For those who are not completely happy with the usability or the look and feel of the back office in their blog, there are a few plugins around, compatible with or made for Wordpress 2.0, that rework or enhance the admin area. I&#8217;ll name :</p>\n	<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.coldforged.org/paged-comment-editing-plugin/\">Paged Comment Editing</a><br />\nBy default, &#8220;Manage Comments&#8221; only list the 20 last comments. What if you were on offline holidays for a month and have a blog that receives quite a few feedback ? This plugin allows browsing of older comments with paging through them.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.agkamai.org/archives/780/cat2tag-v20-seta\">Cat 2 Tag</a><br />\nIf you create a lot of categories, this plugin makes selection easier when writing a post : a handy &#8220;tag cloud&#8221; avoids cumbersome scrolling through a long category list. There is also a fancy &#8220;suggest category&#8221; feature that proposes categories as you type them.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/\">Wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu</a><br />\nThe lazy and the productive will love it : you can go from any to any admin page without having to stop by the &#8220;top level&#8221; page first. For instance, no more loading &#8220;Manage&#8221; first , and then &#8220;Comments&#8221;, since all admin links are available in a CSS driven drop down menu (<a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/download/plugins/wordpress-admin-dropdown-menu-demo.html\">demo</a>). Admin menu the way it was meant to be (and even compatible with Tiger Admin)</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://orderedlist.com/articles/wp-tiger-admin-20/\">Tiger Admin</a><br />\nWhile adding no particular feature, this plugin completely revamp the admin part of your blog by heavily tweaking the CSS, giving your admin pages a brand new look (for Safari, Camino and Firefox only)</li>\n	</ul>\n	<p>If you are using a plugin that adds functionnalities or redesigns the admin interface, feel free to pimp it in the comments. Also, I advise plugin authors to update their plugin descriptions over at <a href=\"http://wp-plugins.net/\">WP-Plugins.net</a> once the administration pages will include &#8220;Wordpress 2.0&#8243; in the compatibility check list.\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/css\" rel=\"tag\">css</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/design\" rel=\"tag\">design</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+2+0\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress 2 0</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+admin\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress admin</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+plugin\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress plugin</a></span>\";}i:6;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"Owen Winkler: Wordpress Plugin : Admin Drop Down Menu\";s:4:\"guid\";s:78:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/30/2187/wordpress-plugin-admin-drop-down-menu/\";s:4:\"link\";s:78:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/30/2187/wordpress-plugin-admin-drop-down-menu/\";s:11:\"description\";s:545:\"<p><a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net\">Ozh</a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/archives/2005/12/30/wordpress-plugin-admin-drop-down-menu/\">Admin Drop Down Menu Plugin</a> for WordPress is something that I&#8217;ve been waiting for someone else to write for a long time.  If you&#8217;re not using this, then you&#8217;re certainly not a power user.  </p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t often write about other people&#8217;s plugins, but this one is so simple and essential in must be made more public.</p>\n<p>Thanks so much for this!</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:36:58 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:545:\"<p><a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net\">Ozh</a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/archives/2005/12/30/wordpress-plugin-admin-drop-down-menu/\">Admin Drop Down Menu Plugin</a> for WordPress is something that I&#8217;ve been waiting for someone else to write for a long time.  If you&#8217;re not using this, then you&#8217;re certainly not a power user.  </p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t often write about other people&#8217;s plugins, but this one is so simple and essential in must be made more public.</p>\n<p>Thanks so much for this!</p>\";}i:7;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Matt: One Million Spam Blocked\";s:4:\"guid\";s:49:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/30/millions-blocked/\";s:4:\"link\";s:49:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/30/millions-blocked/\";s:11:\"description\";s:120:\"<p><a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/one-meeelllion/\">Akismet has blocked over one million spam already</a>.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:32:32 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:120:\"<p><a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/one-meeelllion/\">Akismet has blocked over one million spam already</a>.\n</p>\";}i:8;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:51:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Blogging Wishlist for 2006\";s:4:\"guid\";s:80:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/30/blogging-wishlist-for-2006/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=553\";s:11:\"description\";s:3062:\"<p>Yes, I lifted the idea from <a href=\"http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/bloomberg_marketing/2005/12/2.html\">another blog</a> since their focus was somewhere else. </p>\n	<p>Here is my blogging wishlist for 2006. Tell us what you wish for or trackback this post from your blog.</p>\n	<ul>\n	<li>\nSince this is going to be the year of the aggregator (FeedDemon, Dave Winer&#8217;s effort, MSN, Google &#8230; ) I would like to find, try and settle on (maybe pay a small monthly fee) an aggregator that makes me feel as much at home as the Wordpress Write page.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI would like to see the search engines treat splogs worse. Period.\n</li>\n	<li>\nIn addition, I would like to see the blogging world treat plagiarism with scorn. I would like to have more transparency and less dishonesty in popular &#8220;moneymaking&#8221; content. Search engines could also play an important role in this.\n</li>\n	<li>\nSince blogging is already popular, I would like to see corporations using existing blogs to leverage sales and tweak their offerings to make bloggers happy. Hint: Search for your product on the web, find bloggers who talk about your product, make these bloggers happy and your product will get free and positive advertising.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI would like to see bloggers make more profit from their blogs. Adsense is already very viable and many bloggers are already making a killing, but there is more money to go around. Advertising and profit sharing with bloggers would make casual bloggers very happy. Happy bloggers == better content == better blogosphere.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI was wowed by Flickr and Memorandum. I would really like to see more innovative apps that focus on the blogging world and the social network that is blogging.\n</li>\n	<li>\nPodcasting is nice in its own arena, but I just dont think I want every blog to become a podcast. Yet, I crave multimedia in blogging. I would really like to be surprised.\n</li>\n	<li>\nMSN Spaces scare me. Asian blog networks are even worse. Not sure what I wish for them, but I have yet to read a single blog on any of those networks that I come back to.\n</li>\n	<li>\nLess network, more blog.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI really would like to see Wordpress do better, even better than it already is. This is a personal wish. I am not sure why I have this affinity towards Wordpress et al, but I do.\n</li>\n	<li>\nAkismet is just frickin wonderful. This time next year, I hope to be deleting even lesser spam than I do today.\n</li>\n	<li>\nYahoo! has the right idea when they added Wordpress to their hosting lineup. I would like to see larger financial players help out and spread the wealth among Open Source initiatives in the blogging world and beyond. Free work for OSS is nice, but a little money to ice the cake is always just that much better.\n</li>\n	<li>\nFinally, I would like to see more and better content. Well written personal blogs are refreshing reads.\n</li>\n	</ul>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogging+wishlist+for+2006\" rel=\"tag\">blogging wishlist for 2006</a>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:51:49 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:3062:\"<p>Yes, I lifted the idea from <a href=\"http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/bloomberg_marketing/2005/12/2.html\">another blog</a> since their focus was somewhere else. </p>\n	<p>Here is my blogging wishlist for 2006. Tell us what you wish for or trackback this post from your blog.</p>\n	<ul>\n	<li>\nSince this is going to be the year of the aggregator (FeedDemon, Dave Winer&#8217;s effort, MSN, Google &#8230; ) I would like to find, try and settle on (maybe pay a small monthly fee) an aggregator that makes me feel as much at home as the Wordpress Write page.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI would like to see the search engines treat splogs worse. Period.\n</li>\n	<li>\nIn addition, I would like to see the blogging world treat plagiarism with scorn. I would like to have more transparency and less dishonesty in popular &#8220;moneymaking&#8221; content. Search engines could also play an important role in this.\n</li>\n	<li>\nSince blogging is already popular, I would like to see corporations using existing blogs to leverage sales and tweak their offerings to make bloggers happy. Hint: Search for your product on the web, find bloggers who talk about your product, make these bloggers happy and your product will get free and positive advertising.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI would like to see bloggers make more profit from their blogs. Adsense is already very viable and many bloggers are already making a killing, but there is more money to go around. Advertising and profit sharing with bloggers would make casual bloggers very happy. Happy bloggers == better content == better blogosphere.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI was wowed by Flickr and Memorandum. I would really like to see more innovative apps that focus on the blogging world and the social network that is blogging.\n</li>\n	<li>\nPodcasting is nice in its own arena, but I just dont think I want every blog to become a podcast. Yet, I crave multimedia in blogging. I would really like to be surprised.\n</li>\n	<li>\nMSN Spaces scare me. Asian blog networks are even worse. Not sure what I wish for them, but I have yet to read a single blog on any of those networks that I come back to.\n</li>\n	<li>\nLess network, more blog.\n</li>\n	<li>\nI really would like to see Wordpress do better, even better than it already is. This is a personal wish. I am not sure why I have this affinity towards Wordpress et al, but I do.\n</li>\n	<li>\nAkismet is just frickin wonderful. This time next year, I hope to be deleting even lesser spam than I do today.\n</li>\n	<li>\nYahoo! has the right idea when they added Wordpress to their hosting lineup. I would like to see larger financial players help out and spread the wealth among Open Source initiatives in the blogging world and beyond. Free work for OSS is nice, but a little money to ice the cake is always just that much better.\n</li>\n	<li>\nFinally, I would like to see more and better content. Well written personal blogs are refreshing reads.\n</li>\n	</ul>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogging+wishlist+for+2006\" rel=\"tag\">blogging wishlist for 2006</a>\";}i:9;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"Matt: In Cincinnati\";s:4:\"guid\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/29/in-cincinnati/\";s:4:\"link\";s:46:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/29/in-cincinnati/\";s:11:\"description\";s:753:\"<p>I&#8217;m in the Cincinnati airport, and they just announced an emergency. All of the stores have closed and the halls are empty, everyone has proceeded to the nearest exit. Except the people around me. I&#8217;m on a flight to New York, and apparently the blinking lights and alarms don&#8217;t don&#8217;t phase these folks. The desk attendent just announced they&#8217;re boarding zones 2 and 3. Okay, they just announced my zone, see you guys on the flip side. Update from Blacberry: Right after I got on the plane they made all those jaded New Yorkers evacuate like everyone else and they&#8217;ve stopped people from boarding the plane. Update 2: They seem to have fixed things and people are boarding again. I wonder what the problem was.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:52:03 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:753:\"<p>I&#8217;m in the Cincinnati airport, and they just announced an emergency. All of the stores have closed and the halls are empty, everyone has proceeded to the nearest exit. Except the people around me. I&#8217;m on a flight to New York, and apparently the blinking lights and alarms don&#8217;t don&#8217;t phase these folks. The desk attendent just announced they&#8217;re boarding zones 2 and 3. Okay, they just announced my zone, see you guys on the flip side. Update from Blacberry: Right after I got on the plane they made all those jaded New Yorkers evacuate like everyone else and they&#8217;ve stopped people from boarding the plane. Update 2: They seem to have fixed things and people are boarding again. I wonder what the problem was.\n</p>\";}i:10;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme: SAartsEmerging\";s:4:\"guid\";s:77:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/29/wp-theme-saartsemerging/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=552\";s:11:\"description\";s:407:\"<p><a href=\"http://saartsemerging.org/\">WP Theme: SAartsEmerging</a>2 column, artsy theme. WordPress 2.0 Compatible, customizable through included p-shop file, CSS and XHTML valid.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/SAartsEmerging\" rel=\"tag\">SAartsEmerging</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+theme\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress theme</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:29:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:407:\"<p><a href=\"http://saartsemerging.org/\">WP Theme: SAartsEmerging</a>2 column, artsy theme. WordPress 2.0 Compatible, customizable through included p-shop file, CSS and XHTML valid.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/SAartsEmerging\" rel=\"tag\">SAartsEmerging</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+theme\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress theme</a></span>\";}i:11;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Weblog Tools Collection: How Big A Problem Is Blog Plagiarism?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:90:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/28/how-big-a-problem-is-blog-plagiarism/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=551\";s:11:\"description\";s:1214:\"<p><a href=\"http://techdirt.com/articles/20051227/1018208_F.shtml\">How Big A Problem Is Blog Plagiarism?</a> I have <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/08/29/plageurism-in-blogging/\">written about this in the past</a> and used to have very strong views about it. In the past couple of weeks I have been alerted by readers and friends of quite a few other blogs that are copying my content (among others) and publishing it as their own. The number is surprisingly large. I stand on the fence on this issue. I love this comment on the Techdirt article. <em>I came here from memeorandum, which is another site profitting from your content. That&#8217;s how the blogosphere works.</em> I think our view of IP in the blog world will have to go through some major upheaval (like <a href=\"http://gigaom.com/2005/12/25/wholesale-blog-plagiarism-alert/\">Om&#8217;s discussion</a>) and might even need a few big lawsuits before bloggers know how far they can go without getting making people angry. </p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/plagiarism\" rel=\"tag\">plagiarism</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:30:17 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1214:\"<p><a href=\"http://techdirt.com/articles/20051227/1018208_F.shtml\">How Big A Problem Is Blog Plagiarism?</a> I have <a href=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/08/29/plageurism-in-blogging/\">written about this in the past</a> and used to have very strong views about it. In the past couple of weeks I have been alerted by readers and friends of quite a few other blogs that are copying my content (among others) and publishing it as their own. The number is surprisingly large. I stand on the fence on this issue. I love this comment on the Techdirt article. <em>I came here from memeorandum, which is another site profitting from your content. That&#8217;s how the blogosphere works.</em> I think our view of IP in the blog world will have to go through some major upheaval (like <a href=\"http://gigaom.com/2005/12/25/wholesale-blog-plagiarism-alert/\">Om&#8217;s discussion</a>) and might even need a few big lawsuits before bloggers know how far they can go without getting making people angry. </p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/plagiarism\" rel=\"tag\">plagiarism</a></span>\";}i:12;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:86:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Read Most of O’Reilly’s Hacks Books for Free Using Google\";s:4:\"guid\";s:109:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/28/read-most-of-oreillys-hacks-books-for-free-using-google/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=550\";s:11:\"description\";s:441:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/12/read_most_of_or.html\">Read Most of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Hacks Books for Free Using Google</a>: This tutorial is sure to make Google and O&#8217;Reilly quite unhappy.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/Google+Book+Search\" rel=\"tag\">Google Book Search</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/O\\\'Reilly\" rel=\"tag\">O\\\'Reilly</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:57:58 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:441:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/12/read_most_of_or.html\">Read Most of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Hacks Books for Free Using Google</a>: This tutorial is sure to make Google and O&#8217;Reilly quite unhappy.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/Google+Book+Search\" rel=\"tag\">Google Book Search</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/O\\\'Reilly\" rel=\"tag\">O\\\'Reilly</a></span>\";}i:13;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress 2.0 Released!!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:74:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/26/wordpress-20-release/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=549\";s:11:\"description\";s:163:\"<p>As of this post, Wordpress 2.0 is out. Go <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">get it</a>!<br />\nPS: Check out the new site design while you are at it!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:13:36 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:163:\"<p>As of this post, Wordpress 2.0 is out. Go <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/download/\">get it</a>!<br />\nPS: Check out the new site design while you are at it!\n</p>\";}i:14;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:59:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Ajax Commenting Tutorial\";s:4:\"guid\";s:88:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/26/wordpress-ajax-commenting-tutorial/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=548\";s:11:\"description\";s:391:\"<p><a href=\"http://zeo.unic.net.my/2005/12/25/wordpress-ajax-commenting-revisited/\">WordPress Ajax Commenting Tutorial</a>: A well rounded tutorial for adding AJAX commenting to your Wordpress theme with examples from existing templates.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpres+ajax+commenting\" rel=\"tag\">wordpres ajax commenting</a>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:30:17 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:391:\"<p><a href=\"http://zeo.unic.net.my/2005/12/25/wordpress-ajax-commenting-revisited/\">WordPress Ajax Commenting Tutorial</a>: A well rounded tutorial for adding AJAX commenting to your Wordpress theme with examples from existing templates.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpres+ajax+commenting\" rel=\"tag\">wordpres ajax commenting</a>\";}i:15;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:81:\"Weblog Tools Collection: The Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005\";s:4:\"guid\";s:110:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/26/the-top-10-interesting-people-in-the-blogosphere-in-2005/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=547\";s:11:\"description\";s:473:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/26/the-top-10-interesting-people-in-the-blogosphere-in-2005/\">The Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005</a>: Interesting read, especially since Matt rises up and above all the others. Also of note is that blogging &#8220;networks&#8221; are dominating that list. Anyone read the <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.07/calcanis.html\">Wired article on Jason</a>? PS: Duncan, you need a better server!</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:25:22 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:473:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/26/the-top-10-interesting-people-in-the-blogosphere-in-2005/\">The Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005</a>: Interesting read, especially since Matt rises up and above all the others. Also of note is that blogging &#8220;networks&#8221; are dominating that list. Anyone read the <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.07/calcanis.html\">Wired article on Jason</a>? PS: Duncan, you need a better server!</p>\";}i:16;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:31:\"Weblog Tools Collection: ajchat\";s:4:\"guid\";s:60:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/26/ajchat/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=546\";s:11:\"description\";s:643:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.ajchat.com/\">ajchat</a>: AJAX chatrooms, create rooms on demand, share from a website, link from a blog. I hate iframes and really dislike those little &#8220;shoutbox&#8221; things, but thats a personal preference. I do like the IRC like instant chatrooms. I wonder if there are any plans to release the code? ajchat: <a href=\"http://www.ajchat.com/chat/weblogtoolscollection\" rel=\"tag\">Try out the weblogtoolscollection chat</a>\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ajax\" rel=\"tag\">ajax</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ajchat\" rel=\"tag\">ajchat</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:03:20 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:643:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.ajchat.com/\">ajchat</a>: AJAX chatrooms, create rooms on demand, share from a website, link from a blog. I hate iframes and really dislike those little &#8220;shoutbox&#8221; things, but thats a personal preference. I do like the IRC like instant chatrooms. I wonder if there are any plans to release the code? ajchat: <a href=\"http://www.ajchat.com/chat/weblogtoolscollection\" rel=\"tag\">Try out the weblogtoolscollection chat</a>\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ajax\" rel=\"tag\">ajax</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ajchat\" rel=\"tag\">ajchat</a></span>\";}i:17;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WP Theme: WPAndreas03\";s:4:\"guid\";s:74:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/24/wp-theme-wpandreas03/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=545\";s:11:\"description\";s:637:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.betaflow.com/2005/12/20/wpandreas03-is-wordpress-20-compatible/\">WP Theme: WPAndreas03</a> Bold, well laid out, clean and pleasing two column theme for Wordpress. It was pointed out by <a href=\"http://andreasviklund.com\">Andreas</a> of <a href=\"http://oswd.org\">OSWD.org</a> fame. The author of WPANdreas03 claims that he has tested the theme with the upcoming Wordpress 2.0 and it works fine.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+theme\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress theme</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wpandreas03\" rel=\"tag\">wpandreas03</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:24:20 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:637:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.betaflow.com/2005/12/20/wpandreas03-is-wordpress-20-compatible/\">WP Theme: WPAndreas03</a> Bold, well laid out, clean and pleasing two column theme for Wordpress. It was pointed out by <a href=\"http://andreasviklund.com\">Andreas</a> of <a href=\"http://oswd.org\">OSWD.org</a> fame. The author of WPANdreas03 claims that he has tested the theme with the upcoming Wordpress 2.0 and it works fine.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+theme\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress theme</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wpandreas03\" rel=\"tag\">wpandreas03</a></span>\";}i:18;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"Dougal Campbell: New features in WordPress 2.0?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:70:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/24/new-features-in-wordpress-20\";s:4:\"link\";s:70:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/24/new-features-in-wordpress-20\";s:11:\"description\";s:1522:\"<p>\nA lot of people are still asking what the differences are between WordPress version 1.5.2 and version 2.0. I did mention that a lot of the differences are under the surface, and I mentioned the <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\"><span class=\"caps\">WYSIWYG</span></acronym> editor and the new user permissions scheme. Rather than list the changes here, I\'ll point you to those who have already written about it.\n</p>\n<p>\nOne of the best articles is probably <a href=\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/\">What\'s New in WordPress 2.0?</a> over on Owen Winkler\'s site. There are also several articles over on <a href=\"http://ryan.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/persistent-object-cache/\">Ryan\'s site</a> which detail some of the new changes.\n</p>\n<div class=\"pull-quote\">\n<a id=\"p696\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?attachment_id=696\" title=\"Christmas Lights\"><img id=\"image696\" src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/OutsideLights.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" height=\"96\" width=\"128\" /></a>\n<p>Christmas Lights</p>\n</div>\n<p>\nOne of the things that I only recently discovered myself is the fact that images uploaded to a post become \"attachments\" which become sub-pages themselves. In other words, each uploaded image becomes a WordPress page, with its own comments. This gives you the basic functionality of a photo gallery without the need for any external software. Click on the image in this post for an example.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:39:16 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1522:\"<p>\nA lot of people are still asking what the differences are between WordPress version 1.5.2 and version 2.0. I did mention that a lot of the differences are under the surface, and I mentioned the <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\"><span class=\"caps\">WYSIWYG</span></acronym> editor and the new user permissions scheme. Rather than list the changes here, I\'ll point you to those who have already written about it.\n</p>\n<p>\nOne of the best articles is probably <a href=\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/\">What\'s New in WordPress 2.0?</a> over on Owen Winkler\'s site. There are also several articles over on <a href=\"http://ryan.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/persistent-object-cache/\">Ryan\'s site</a> which detail some of the new changes.\n</p>\n<div class=\"pull-quote\">\n<a id=\"p696\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?attachment_id=696\" title=\"Christmas Lights\"><img id=\"image696\" src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/OutsideLights.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" height=\"96\" width=\"128\" /></a>\n<p>Christmas Lights</p>\n</div>\n<p>\nOne of the things that I only recently discovered myself is the fact that images uploaded to a post become \"attachments\" which become sub-pages themselves. In other words, each uploaded image becomes a WordPress page, with its own comments. This gives you the basic functionality of a photo gallery without the need for any external software. Click on the image in this post for an example.\n</p>\";}i:19;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:23:\"Ryan: Memcached Backend\";s:4:\"guid\";s:55:\"http://ryan.wordpress.com/2005/12/23/memcached-backend/\";s:4:\"link\";s:55:\"http://ryan.wordpress.com/2005/12/23/memcached-backend/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1481:\"<p><a title=\"Memcached\" href=\"http://danga.com/memcached/\">Memcached</a> is a distributed memory object caching system. WordPress 2.0 can make use of memcached by dropping in a <a title=\"memcached backend\" href=\"http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/memcached/trunk/\">special backend</a> for the WP object cache. The memcached backend replaces the default backend and directs all cache requests to one or more memcached daemons. You must have a memcached daemon running somewhere for this to work. Unless you&#8217;re managing the server on which your blog is running, you probably can&#8217;t run a memcached daemon, making this backend useless to you. The memcached backend is targeted at ISPs and those running WPMU. If you are using WPMU and distributing DB requests across multiple servers, memcached will come in very handy. Using memcached for a single blog isn&#8217;t really worth it. In my tests, it was sometimes slower than using the default object cache backend.</p>\n<p>To install, copy <a href=\"http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/memcached/trunk/\">object-cache.php and memcached-client.php</a> to your <code>wp-content/</code> directory.</p>\n<p>To configure, define <code>$memcached_servers</code> in wp-config.php. This is an array of host and ports to which to connect. By default, the backend attempts to connect to port 11211 on the localhost.</p>\n<p>Example server config:</p>\n<p><code>$memcached_servers = array(\'192.168.1.1:11211\', \'192.168.1.2:11211\');</code>\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:33:04 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1481:\"<p><a title=\"Memcached\" href=\"http://danga.com/memcached/\">Memcached</a> is a distributed memory object caching system. WordPress 2.0 can make use of memcached by dropping in a <a title=\"memcached backend\" href=\"http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/memcached/trunk/\">special backend</a> for the WP object cache. The memcached backend replaces the default backend and directs all cache requests to one or more memcached daemons. You must have a memcached daemon running somewhere for this to work. Unless you&#8217;re managing the server on which your blog is running, you probably can&#8217;t run a memcached daemon, making this backend useless to you. The memcached backend is targeted at ISPs and those running WPMU. If you are using WPMU and distributing DB requests across multiple servers, memcached will come in very handy. Using memcached for a single blog isn&#8217;t really worth it. In my tests, it was sometimes slower than using the default object cache backend.</p>\n<p>To install, copy <a href=\"http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/memcached/trunk/\">object-cache.php and memcached-client.php</a> to your <code>wp-content/</code> directory.</p>\n<p>To configure, define <code>$memcached_servers</code> in wp-config.php. This is an array of host and ports to which to connect. By default, the backend attempts to connect to port 11211 on the localhost.</p>\n<p>Example server config:</p>\n<p><code>$memcached_servers = array(\'192.168.1.1:11211\', \'192.168.1.2:11211\');</code>\n</p>\";}i:20;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Brainstorm: NetFlix for books\";s:4:\"guid\";s:82:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/23/brainstorm-netflix-for-books/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=544\";s:11:\"description\";s:1966:\"<p>I received some <a href=\"http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index2.htm\">books in the mail today from Intel on IA-32 Assembly language development</a> and the sheer weight of these books reminded me that I was likely to never actually read them, let alone leaf through them when I actually needed some reference. I tend to just go to Google and search for the topic before I ever pick up a book anymore. In spite of the ease of reading stuff on the web, it is still less satisfying and intuitive (and in many ways, less informative) than actually reading the book. I like Google Print, but that is a teaser without a carrot at the end of the stick.</p>\n	<p>I know that there are eBooks and there are a variety of other electronic publication services, but could one of the big poobahs (Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc.) come up with a searchable online library of books that could be &#8220;checked out&#8221; on a time sensitive basis. The service could be charged per book, per epoch or otherwise. I sure would get a subscription! In this age of the iTunes, RIAA and legal music downloads, I am surprised that there is such lack of interest in monetizing the online library.</p>\n	<p>The existing services are poor and fragmented at best and they leave a bitter taste with their high prices. Not only that, buying an eBook is a little like shopping for gifts on the 23rd of December; you have to visit twenty different stores, stand in line for hours and face the wrath of bad drivers (have you noticed that everyone but me is a bad driver?) in the parking lot. No one location/site has a good selection of stuff I want. </p>\n	<p>While they are at it, could they also come up with a better format for publishing books online?\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ebooks\" rel=\"tag\">ebooks</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/legal+music+downloads\" rel=\"tag\">legal music downloads</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:30:33 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1966:\"<p>I received some <a href=\"http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/index2.htm\">books in the mail today from Intel on IA-32 Assembly language development</a> and the sheer weight of these books reminded me that I was likely to never actually read them, let alone leaf through them when I actually needed some reference. I tend to just go to Google and search for the topic before I ever pick up a book anymore. In spite of the ease of reading stuff on the web, it is still less satisfying and intuitive (and in many ways, less informative) than actually reading the book. I like Google Print, but that is a teaser without a carrot at the end of the stick.</p>\n	<p>I know that there are eBooks and there are a variety of other electronic publication services, but could one of the big poobahs (Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc.) come up with a searchable online library of books that could be &#8220;checked out&#8221; on a time sensitive basis. The service could be charged per book, per epoch or otherwise. I sure would get a subscription! In this age of the iTunes, RIAA and legal music downloads, I am surprised that there is such lack of interest in monetizing the online library.</p>\n	<p>The existing services are poor and fragmented at best and they leave a bitter taste with their high prices. Not only that, buying an eBook is a little like shopping for gifts on the 23rd of December; you have to visit twenty different stores, stand in line for hours and face the wrath of bad drivers (have you noticed that everyone but me is a bad driver?) in the parking lot. No one location/site has a good selection of stuff I want. </p>\n	<p>While they are at it, could they also come up with a better format for publishing books online?\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ebooks\" rel=\"tag\">ebooks</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/legal+music+downloads\" rel=\"tag\">legal music downloads</a></span>\";}i:21;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:44:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Lost in Translation\";s:4:\"guid\";s:73:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/23/lost-in-translation/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=543\";s:11:\"description\";s:124:\"<p><a href=\"http://tashian.com/multibabel/\">Lost in Translation</a>: Amazingly funny! Try &#8220;Merry Christmas!&#8221;</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:00:47 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:124:\"<p><a href=\"http://tashian.com/multibabel/\">Lost in Translation</a>: Amazingly funny! Try &#8220;Merry Christmas!&#8221;</p>\";}i:22;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:66:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress and the Performancing Extension\";s:4:\"guid\";s:95:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/23/wordpress-and-the-performancing-extension/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=542\";s:11:\"description\";s:783:\"<p><a href=\"http://performancing.com/node/580\">Wordpress and Performancing Extension for Firefox</a>: A Dummies version of implementing the extension for WordPress. As a musing, a few years ago, &#8220;Dummies Version&#8221; would/could have offended some people, but the &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; for Dummies series of books have become so common that any tutorial labeled as &#8220;for dummies&#8221; is meant to be viewed as written simply, succintly with the most novice user in mind. [EDIT] The extension is buggy. They need to stop adding slashes for Wordpress posts!\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/performancing\" rel=\"tag\">performancing</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:00:39 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:783:\"<p><a href=\"http://performancing.com/node/580\">Wordpress and Performancing Extension for Firefox</a>: A Dummies version of implementing the extension for WordPress. As a musing, a few years ago, &#8220;Dummies Version&#8221; would/could have offended some people, but the &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; for Dummies series of books have become so common that any tutorial labeled as &#8220;for dummies&#8221; is meant to be viewed as written simply, succintly with the most novice user in mind. [EDIT] The extension is buggy. They need to stop adding slashes for Wordpress posts!\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/performancing\" rel=\"tag\">performancing</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress</a></span>\";}i:23;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:46:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Feed Reader Breakdown\";s:4:\"guid\";s:75:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/23/feed-reader-breakdown/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=541\";s:11:\"description\";s:1335:\"<p>For those of you that pay extra close attention to what you read through your feedreader (or are just obsessed with looking at links and how they work) you might have noticed that I have switched the feeds for Weblogtoolscollection to Feedburner. This gives me better control over the content, asssures that the content does not get lost when and if my blog is down and gives me cool reports such as the graphic here. I do miss being able to instantly modify my feed without having to ping Feedburner over and over again.<br />\n<img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/c.png\" alt=\"Feed Reader Breakdown\" /><br />\nI personally (still) use <a href=\"http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/\">Feed on Feeds</a> and since Alex did not offer me the chance to alpha test <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com\">FeedLounge </a> (just kidding Alex, no hard feelings at all) I have modified FoF to suit my tastes and my needs. </p>\n	<p>As I&#8217;m sure everyone in this business is aware, the feed reader market has heated up considerably. There are new players such as Google, MSN (though still quite annoying to use) and of course the old skool players such as bloglines and Rojo. Most of these have their set of benefits, but from my traffic stats, it looks like Bloglines is winning hands down. </p>\n	<p>What feed reader do you use?\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:00:39 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1335:\"<p>For those of you that pay extra close attention to what you read through your feedreader (or are just obsessed with looking at links and how they work) you might have noticed that I have switched the feeds for Weblogtoolscollection to Feedburner. This gives me better control over the content, asssures that the content does not get lost when and if my blog is down and gives me cool reports such as the graphic here. I do miss being able to instantly modify my feed without having to ping Feedburner over and over again.<br />\n<img src=\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/c.png\" alt=\"Feed Reader Breakdown\" /><br />\nI personally (still) use <a href=\"http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/\">Feed on Feeds</a> and since Alex did not offer me the chance to alpha test <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com\">FeedLounge </a> (just kidding Alex, no hard feelings at all) I have modified FoF to suit my tastes and my needs. </p>\n	<p>As I&#8217;m sure everyone in this business is aware, the feed reader market has heated up considerably. There are new players such as Google, MSN (though still quite annoying to use) and of course the old skool players such as bloglines and Rojo. Most of these have their set of benefits, but from my traffic stats, it looks like Bloglines is winning hands down. </p>\n	<p>What feed reader do you use?\n</p>\";}i:24;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:50:\"Weblog Tools Collection: One in Five Blogs Is Spam\";s:4:\"guid\";s:79:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/23/one-in-five-blogs-is-spam/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=540\";s:11:\"description\";s:257:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.adweek.com/aw/iq_interactive/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001736416\">One in Five Blogs Is Spam</a> <em>While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research.</em> Surprised? Nah!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:00:49 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:257:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.adweek.com/aw/iq_interactive/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001736416\">One in Five Blogs Is Spam</a> <em>While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research.</em> Surprised? Nah!\n</p>\";}i:25;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:77:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Theme Zip for Lazy Wordpress Theme Authors\";s:4:\"guid\";s:106:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/23/wordpress-theme-zip-for-lazy-wordpress-theme-authors/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=539\";s:11:\"description\";s:680:\"<p><a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-theme-zip/\">Wordpress Theme Zip</a>: easiest (and laziest) way to generate a zip archive from a Wordpress Theme that is being worked on, so you don&#8217;t have to manually create, update and upload a new zip file every time you modify a file in it.\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/php\" rel=\"tag\">php</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+hack\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress hack</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+theme\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress theme</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:15:00 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:680:\"<p><a href=\"http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-theme-zip/\">Wordpress Theme Zip</a>: easiest (and laziest) way to generate a zip archive from a Wordpress Theme that is being worked on, so you don&#8217;t have to manually create, update and upload a new zip file every time you modify a file in it.\n</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/php\" rel=\"tag\">php</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+hack\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress hack</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/wordpress+theme\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress theme</a></span>\";}i:26;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Owen Winkler: What’s Not Gonna Work in WordPress 2.0\";s:4:\"guid\";s:77:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/19/2171/whats-not-gonna-work-in-wordpress-20/\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/19/2171/whats-not-gonna-work-in-wordpress-20/\";s:11:\"description\";s:8068:\"<p>The most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, &#8220;When is it coming out?&#8221;  Well, that&#8217;s going to be <a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/19/wordpress-20-release-imminent\">this week</a>.</p>\n<p>The second most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, &#8220;What is changed?&#8221;  I think <a href=\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/\">I wrote about that before</a>.</p>\n<p>The third most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, &#8220;Will my plugins and/or themes work?&#8221;  Uh&#8230;.  Possibly?<br />\n<a id=\"more-2171\"></a><br />\nThis is also known as the dreaded question, &#8220;In what way is WordPress 2.0 going to break my site and cause me hours of upgrade pain without someone to whom I can whimper, &#8216;Please, make it go again.&#8217;?&#8221;</p>\n<p>This post isn&#8217;t going to make that question much easier, but I may provide a toll-free support number for handling these issues before the week is out.</p>\n<p>There is a user-supplied list of plugins that will/will not work with WordPress 2.0 over on <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility\">photomatt&#8217;s Codex user page</a>.  I hope that this page gets rolled into the main site soon because it&#8217;s a little off the beaten path.</p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the good news:  Themes are probably OK.  Unless your theme was doing something crazy before, it&#8217;s probably going to work after the upgrade.  There have been a lot of new plugin hooks added to the 2.0 version, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like anything made it into the theme system that would cause it to break.</p>\n<p>The theme system does allow for a custom plugin-like set of functions to be loaded.  WordPress will automatically load a file named functions.php for any theme that includes one.  This is done in the same way that plugins are loaded, and allows themes to supply their own custom features, including both output functions and configuration pages.</p>\n<p>Also, themes should now come with &#8220;thumbnail&#8221; images (I say &#8220;thumbnail&#8221; in quotes because they&#8217;re actually more the size of your palm, but&#8230;) that will be displayed in the admin.  If your theme doesn&#8217;t have one, it&#8217;ll simply show a blank box.</p>\n<p>A theme that doesn&#8217;t have either one of these should load just as it did in WordPress 1.5.2, but won&#8217;t have those additional features.</p>\n<p><strong>Plugins are another question, though.</strong>  There are some specific sections of WordPress that have been heavily revised.  If you use a plugin that integrates into one of these sections, it will probably not work.  Specifically, the permissions and capability sections will be a bear for plugins that are affected by user levels.</p>\n<p>If you are running a &#8220;view level&#8221; plugin - something that restricts a reader&#8217;s permissions to access certain posts - I&#8217;ll say straight out right now that unless you&#8217;ve got a brand new version (and I know of no author who has written one of these plugins that is offering an updated version) it&#8217;s not going to work.  If you have an update, comment here - I&#8217;m looking for it myself.</p>\n<p>One often overlooked aspect of this is that any plugin that uses an admin page will need review.  The function call that adds custom admin pages used to require a user level number.  It now requires a capability name.  Now there are some backwards-compatibility checks for user levels in there, but they may obviously not work as well as something specifically designed to work with the new capabilities system.</p>\n<p>Also in the administration area, if you are using a plugin that hooks into the editor, you may have issues with it.  This is particularly so if that plugin adds buttons to the Quicktag toolbar, since the new default is to use the WYSIWYG editor, which does not use the same toolbar.</p>\n<p>I have written the <a href=\"http://redalt.com/downloads/wp2/buttonsnap.zip\">buttonsnap class</a>, which lets plugin authors add buttons to both editors very easily.  It&#8217;s not a plugin itself, but a library that makes it very simple for plugin authors to create buttons in either editor with a simple, single function call.  Still, the plugin will have to be rewritten to use my library or some other solution if it&#8217;s going to be effectual.</p>\n<p>If your plugins use DOM to insert new elements into the user interface (pretty much any plugin that adds elements is using DOM to do it) then it may need to be updated to account for changes there.</p>\n<p>The Upload page in the admin is gone.  If your plugin altered or attached to that page, it won&#8217;t be any more.</p>\n<p>Generally speaking, you&#8217;re going to need to procure write access for your server to the /wp-content directory of WordPress.  That means you have to allow your server to write files into that directory from scripts.  This will allow things like caching, image uploading, and the bundled backup plugin to work as they should, although your host may not like it or allow it (most hosts will, but you should check), and you might not consider it secure to leave all of the subdirectories there in that state.</p>\n<p>You should verify with someone you trust concerning the permissions you intend to use to provide the access to your server that you want to provide.</p>\n<p><strong>What should you do if your plugin doesn&#8217;t work?</strong></p>\n<p>Panic.</p>\n<p>Nah, just kidding.  Actually, before you upgrade, compare the <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility\">list of working plugins</a> against the ones you&#8217;re using.  If your doesn&#8217;t appear in the &#8220;known working&#8221; section of list, you need to talk to someone.</p>\n<p>Your best bet, if you can find contact info, is to badger the plugin author.  Barring that, you can try any of the standard <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support\">support channels</a>, but be aware that in the fallout that is bound to occur when everyone upgrades, your 3rd-party code (code written by someone outside of the WordPress core) isn&#8217;t going to be a priority.</p>\n<p>I suggest trying WordPress IRC (#wordpress @ irc.freenode.net) and see if anyone there knows how to solve your problem.  There is usually someone there that can at least record the issue or forward it on to someone who can start fixing.</p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been keeping up with documentation on 2.0 as well as I should, but I imagine that with the frequency of changes over the past month or two that nothing is verifiably up to date.  If you find instructions in the Codex for performing some necessary intrinsic system change, first be sure that the instructions apply to the version you are installing.</p>\n<p>Probably the most sound advice I can give you is this:  If you have any doubt about performing an upgrade - <em>don&#8217;t upgrade!</em>  There&#8217;s no reason to submit yourself as a guinea pig to test this software, especially if you&#8217;re fairly satisfied with what you have already.  Granted, WordPress 2.0 is a nice piece of work, but it&#8217;s going to be a while before 1.5.2 loses the support of the community at large.</p>\n<p>Take your time.  Learn from the mistakes of the 500,000 other downloaders.  After that, take the plunge.</p>\n<p>Remember to <em>backup everything</em>.</p>\n<p>Shameless plug: There are also people who can <a href=\"http://shimmerstudio.net\">do your upgrade for you</a>.</p>\n<p>If any of you developers think of any other &#8220;gotchas&#8221; in the new system, please leave them in the comments.  Thanks!</p>\n<p>Otherwise, I&#8217;ll see you in WP 2.0 later this week.  I&#8217;ve got at least two plugins for 2.0 that I hope to have baked for the release.  I&#8217;m also looking forward to the sleek new <a href=\"http://wordpress.org\">WordPress.org</a> <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/temp/wordpress-v2.png\">site redesign/rebranding</a> we were promised with the new version release.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:8068:\"<p>The most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, &#8220;When is it coming out?&#8221;  Well, that&#8217;s going to be <a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/19/wordpress-20-release-imminent\">this week</a>.</p>\n<p>The second most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, &#8220;What is changed?&#8221;  I think <a href=\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/\">I wrote about that before</a>.</p>\n<p>The third most often asked question regarding WordPress 2.0 is, &#8220;Will my plugins and/or themes work?&#8221;  Uh&#8230;.  Possibly?<br />\n<a id=\"more-2171\"></a><br />\nThis is also known as the dreaded question, &#8220;In what way is WordPress 2.0 going to break my site and cause me hours of upgrade pain without someone to whom I can whimper, &#8216;Please, make it go again.&#8217;?&#8221;</p>\n<p>This post isn&#8217;t going to make that question much easier, but I may provide a toll-free support number for handling these issues before the week is out.</p>\n<p>There is a user-supplied list of plugins that will/will not work with WordPress 2.0 over on <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility\">photomatt&#8217;s Codex user page</a>.  I hope that this page gets rolled into the main site soon because it&#8217;s a little off the beaten path.</p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the good news:  Themes are probably OK.  Unless your theme was doing something crazy before, it&#8217;s probably going to work after the upgrade.  There have been a lot of new plugin hooks added to the 2.0 version, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like anything made it into the theme system that would cause it to break.</p>\n<p>The theme system does allow for a custom plugin-like set of functions to be loaded.  WordPress will automatically load a file named functions.php for any theme that includes one.  This is done in the same way that plugins are loaded, and allows themes to supply their own custom features, including both output functions and configuration pages.</p>\n<p>Also, themes should now come with &#8220;thumbnail&#8221; images (I say &#8220;thumbnail&#8221; in quotes because they&#8217;re actually more the size of your palm, but&#8230;) that will be displayed in the admin.  If your theme doesn&#8217;t have one, it&#8217;ll simply show a blank box.</p>\n<p>A theme that doesn&#8217;t have either one of these should load just as it did in WordPress 1.5.2, but won&#8217;t have those additional features.</p>\n<p><strong>Plugins are another question, though.</strong>  There are some specific sections of WordPress that have been heavily revised.  If you use a plugin that integrates into one of these sections, it will probably not work.  Specifically, the permissions and capability sections will be a bear for plugins that are affected by user levels.</p>\n<p>If you are running a &#8220;view level&#8221; plugin - something that restricts a reader&#8217;s permissions to access certain posts - I&#8217;ll say straight out right now that unless you&#8217;ve got a brand new version (and I know of no author who has written one of these plugins that is offering an updated version) it&#8217;s not going to work.  If you have an update, comment here - I&#8217;m looking for it myself.</p>\n<p>One often overlooked aspect of this is that any plugin that uses an admin page will need review.  The function call that adds custom admin pages used to require a user level number.  It now requires a capability name.  Now there are some backwards-compatibility checks for user levels in there, but they may obviously not work as well as something specifically designed to work with the new capabilities system.</p>\n<p>Also in the administration area, if you are using a plugin that hooks into the editor, you may have issues with it.  This is particularly so if that plugin adds buttons to the Quicktag toolbar, since the new default is to use the WYSIWYG editor, which does not use the same toolbar.</p>\n<p>I have written the <a href=\"http://redalt.com/downloads/wp2/buttonsnap.zip\">buttonsnap class</a>, which lets plugin authors add buttons to both editors very easily.  It&#8217;s not a plugin itself, but a library that makes it very simple for plugin authors to create buttons in either editor with a simple, single function call.  Still, the plugin will have to be rewritten to use my library or some other solution if it&#8217;s going to be effectual.</p>\n<p>If your plugins use DOM to insert new elements into the user interface (pretty much any plugin that adds elements is using DOM to do it) then it may need to be updated to account for changes there.</p>\n<p>The Upload page in the admin is gone.  If your plugin altered or attached to that page, it won&#8217;t be any more.</p>\n<p>Generally speaking, you&#8217;re going to need to procure write access for your server to the /wp-content directory of WordPress.  That means you have to allow your server to write files into that directory from scripts.  This will allow things like caching, image uploading, and the bundled backup plugin to work as they should, although your host may not like it or allow it (most hosts will, but you should check), and you might not consider it secure to leave all of the subdirectories there in that state.</p>\n<p>You should verify with someone you trust concerning the permissions you intend to use to provide the access to your server that you want to provide.</p>\n<p><strong>What should you do if your plugin doesn&#8217;t work?</strong></p>\n<p>Panic.</p>\n<p>Nah, just kidding.  Actually, before you upgrade, compare the <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility\">list of working plugins</a> against the ones you&#8217;re using.  If your doesn&#8217;t appear in the &#8220;known working&#8221; section of list, you need to talk to someone.</p>\n<p>Your best bet, if you can find contact info, is to badger the plugin author.  Barring that, you can try any of the standard <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support\">support channels</a>, but be aware that in the fallout that is bound to occur when everyone upgrades, your 3rd-party code (code written by someone outside of the WordPress core) isn&#8217;t going to be a priority.</p>\n<p>I suggest trying WordPress IRC (#wordpress @ irc.freenode.net) and see if anyone there knows how to solve your problem.  There is usually someone there that can at least record the issue or forward it on to someone who can start fixing.</p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been keeping up with documentation on 2.0 as well as I should, but I imagine that with the frequency of changes over the past month or two that nothing is verifiably up to date.  If you find instructions in the Codex for performing some necessary intrinsic system change, first be sure that the instructions apply to the version you are installing.</p>\n<p>Probably the most sound advice I can give you is this:  If you have any doubt about performing an upgrade - <em>don&#8217;t upgrade!</em>  There&#8217;s no reason to submit yourself as a guinea pig to test this software, especially if you&#8217;re fairly satisfied with what you have already.  Granted, WordPress 2.0 is a nice piece of work, but it&#8217;s going to be a while before 1.5.2 loses the support of the community at large.</p>\n<p>Take your time.  Learn from the mistakes of the 500,000 other downloaders.  After that, take the plunge.</p>\n<p>Remember to <em>backup everything</em>.</p>\n<p>Shameless plug: There are also people who can <a href=\"http://shimmerstudio.net\">do your upgrade for you</a>.</p>\n<p>If any of you developers think of any other &#8220;gotchas&#8221; in the new system, please leave them in the comments.  Thanks!</p>\n<p>Otherwise, I&#8217;ll see you in WP 2.0 later this week.  I&#8217;ve got at least two plugins for 2.0 that I hope to have baked for the release.  I&#8217;m also looking forward to the sleek new <a href=\"http://wordpress.org\">WordPress.org</a> <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/temp/wordpress-v2.png\">site redesign/rebranding</a> we were promised with the new version release.\n</p>\";}i:27;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:69:\"Owen Winkler: WordPress and Philly Blogger Meetup Accosted by Santas!\";s:4:\"guid\";s:95:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/19/2169/wordpress-and-philly-blogger-meetup-accosted-by-santas/\";s:4:\"link\";s:95:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/19/2169/wordpress-and-philly-blogger-meetup-accosted-by-santas/\";s:11:\"description\";s:5698:\"<p>Ah, the depressing dearth of WordPress meetup attendees this month was quite offset by the Philly Blogger meetup that happened afterward.</p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s give props to the gang that showed up, and then I&#8217;ll tell you all about the <strong>crazy Irish dancing and Santa invasion</strong> that you missed when you left early.</p>\n<p>This list is mostly copied from <a href=\"http://www.phillyfuture.org/node/2313\">the list at Philly Future</a>, kindly collected and posted by <a href=\"http://blog.blankbaby.com/\">Scott</a>, and modified only slightly to point at posts talking about the meetup:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael from <a href=\"http://g33k.efamilynj.org/\">Just another Geek&#8217;s Blog</a></li>\n<li>Dan from <a href=\"http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/\">philadelphia will do</a></li>\n<li>Mystery blogger from <a href=\"http://thewestend.blogspot.com/\">The West End</a></li>\n<li>Tulin from <a href=\"http://www.politicsphilly.com/\">PoliticsPhilly</a></li>\n<li>Duncan from <a href=\"http://atrios.blogspot.com/\">Eschaton</a></li>\n<li>Albert from <a href=\"http://dragonballyee.blogs.com/\">philly</a> and <a href=\"http://www.messyandpicky.com/\">Messy and Picky</a></li>\n<li>Tony from <a href=\"http://merecat.org/\">Mere Cat</a></li>\n<li>Michael from <a href=\"http://rivertyde.com/\">River Tyde</a></li>\n<li>Marisa from <a href=\"http://apt2024.blogspot.com/\">Apartment 2024</a> and <a href=\"http://philadelphia.metblogs.com/2005/12/the_philly_blog.phtml\">Metroblogging Philadelphia</a></li>\n<li>Bobby from <a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/archives/18/12/2005/philadelphia-wordpress-and-webloggers-meetups/\">Something Unpredictable</a></li>\n<li>Luna from <a href=\"http://phillyam.blogspot.com/2005/12/december-blogger-meetup.html\">Strolling Luna</a></li>\n<li>Howard from <a href=\"http://thesmedleylog.com/\">the smedley log</a></li>\n<li>Scott from <a href=\"http://blog.blankbaby.com/\">Blankbaby</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>And now, photos, movies, and &#8220;Run for your lives!  It&#8217;s the Santas!&#8221;<br />\n<a id=\"more-2169\"></a><br />\nWell, I showed up way early for the meetup, which was quite shocking.  Traffic was not bad on the expressway, since they must all have been gathering around the shopping malls.</p>\n<p>Lunch at Fregie&#8217;s is always tasty, which surprises me for Bar/Pub fair.  The bartender even recognized me - not bad for less than a year of once-a-month meetups!</p>\n<p>Two guys showed for the WordPress portion of the evening - Mike, a local blogger, and <a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/archives/18/12/2005/philadelphia-wordpress-and-webloggers-meetups/\">masquerade</a>, from WordPress IRC and all the way from Dover, both came and exchanged some WordPress discussion.  Thanks to everyone who RSVP&#8217;ed, even if it was a &#8220;No&#8221;, since we know you&#8217;re still out there.  Hopefully being after the holidays you&#8217;ll be able to hit our next meetup.</p>\n<p>After 3pm, we moved to the back table to sit with the Philly Blogger folks, and the group grew considerably.  Perhaps next time I will take the opportunity to mingle more, to avoid being <a href=\"http://philadelphia.metblogs.com/2005/12/the_philly_blog.phtml\">labeled as some kind of techie person</a>.  ;p</p>\n<p>As usual, the conversation was engaging.  It&#8217;s nice to be around folks with considered thought that is out of the regular stream of things that I usually think about.</p>\n<p>As I said in my previous post, I&#8217;ve never seen Fergie&#8217;s so busy, but I guess bars in the city on the weekend tend to draw a crowd, especially on the holidays.  The evening rolled on and a couple of folks started to leave for other destinations, but that&#8217;s when things started to get really weird.</p>\n<p>At 4pm they had started the Irish music.  The fiddle players kept multiplying through the evening, and I think there were a total of 9 musicians by the end of the night.  It was strange because every time I would look behind me, there would be another guy with a fiddle or a drum sitting at that table.</p>\n<p>The music was so good that it inspired three folks to spontaneously start Irish step dancing.  (<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/?v=3xs9ByXsqKo\">Cameraphone Video!</a>)  It was unexpected, yet very cool, and we all clapped along to the music and dancing.  I&#8217;m not a judge as to how good they were, but they were better than I would have done, I assure you, and fun to watch.</p>\n<p>Not too long afterwards, the pub was overrun by Santas from the <a href=\"http://www.santacon.com/\">Santacon</a>.  Here is the <a href=\"http://www.evite.com/pub/santacon/pubcrawl\">Philly evite</a>, and check out the <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/santacon/\">photos from other cities</a>, since the Philly Santas are obviously still too hung-over to have posted their own photos.</p>\n<p>Scott mentioned on Philly Future that there were 30 Santas.  The capacity in this bar is 48.  Yes, the place was actually freakin&#8217; packed with Santas and their helpers, elves, and Miss Clauses alike.</p>\n<p>Need <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/75207463/\">photographic</a> <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/75207464/\">evidence</a>?  Thank goodness for my Treo, or there might be only our word of this strange occurrance.</p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Santas left before we did, and we didn&#8217;t have to worry about the reindeer or sleighs causing any traffic issues when we were leaving.</p>\n<p>Ahem.</p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t leave until around 9pm to pick Pat up from the airport.  That&#8217;s a hella long meetup, and a roaring good time.  Hopefully next month&#8217;s is as grand.  Thanks everyone for coming out, see you next month!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:5698:\"<p>Ah, the depressing dearth of WordPress meetup attendees this month was quite offset by the Philly Blogger meetup that happened afterward.</p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s give props to the gang that showed up, and then I&#8217;ll tell you all about the <strong>crazy Irish dancing and Santa invasion</strong> that you missed when you left early.</p>\n<p>This list is mostly copied from <a href=\"http://www.phillyfuture.org/node/2313\">the list at Philly Future</a>, kindly collected and posted by <a href=\"http://blog.blankbaby.com/\">Scott</a>, and modified only slightly to point at posts talking about the meetup:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael from <a href=\"http://g33k.efamilynj.org/\">Just another Geek&#8217;s Blog</a></li>\n<li>Dan from <a href=\"http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/\">philadelphia will do</a></li>\n<li>Mystery blogger from <a href=\"http://thewestend.blogspot.com/\">The West End</a></li>\n<li>Tulin from <a href=\"http://www.politicsphilly.com/\">PoliticsPhilly</a></li>\n<li>Duncan from <a href=\"http://atrios.blogspot.com/\">Eschaton</a></li>\n<li>Albert from <a href=\"http://dragonballyee.blogs.com/\">philly</a> and <a href=\"http://www.messyandpicky.com/\">Messy and Picky</a></li>\n<li>Tony from <a href=\"http://merecat.org/\">Mere Cat</a></li>\n<li>Michael from <a href=\"http://rivertyde.com/\">River Tyde</a></li>\n<li>Marisa from <a href=\"http://apt2024.blogspot.com/\">Apartment 2024</a> and <a href=\"http://philadelphia.metblogs.com/2005/12/the_philly_blog.phtml\">Metroblogging Philadelphia</a></li>\n<li>Bobby from <a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/archives/18/12/2005/philadelphia-wordpress-and-webloggers-meetups/\">Something Unpredictable</a></li>\n<li>Luna from <a href=\"http://phillyam.blogspot.com/2005/12/december-blogger-meetup.html\">Strolling Luna</a></li>\n<li>Howard from <a href=\"http://thesmedleylog.com/\">the smedley log</a></li>\n<li>Scott from <a href=\"http://blog.blankbaby.com/\">Blankbaby</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>And now, photos, movies, and &#8220;Run for your lives!  It&#8217;s the Santas!&#8221;<br />\n<a id=\"more-2169\"></a><br />\nWell, I showed up way early for the meetup, which was quite shocking.  Traffic was not bad on the expressway, since they must all have been gathering around the shopping malls.</p>\n<p>Lunch at Fregie&#8217;s is always tasty, which surprises me for Bar/Pub fair.  The bartender even recognized me - not bad for less than a year of once-a-month meetups!</p>\n<p>Two guys showed for the WordPress portion of the evening - Mike, a local blogger, and <a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/archives/18/12/2005/philadelphia-wordpress-and-webloggers-meetups/\">masquerade</a>, from WordPress IRC and all the way from Dover, both came and exchanged some WordPress discussion.  Thanks to everyone who RSVP&#8217;ed, even if it was a &#8220;No&#8221;, since we know you&#8217;re still out there.  Hopefully being after the holidays you&#8217;ll be able to hit our next meetup.</p>\n<p>After 3pm, we moved to the back table to sit with the Philly Blogger folks, and the group grew considerably.  Perhaps next time I will take the opportunity to mingle more, to avoid being <a href=\"http://philadelphia.metblogs.com/2005/12/the_philly_blog.phtml\">labeled as some kind of techie person</a>.  ;p</p>\n<p>As usual, the conversation was engaging.  It&#8217;s nice to be around folks with considered thought that is out of the regular stream of things that I usually think about.</p>\n<p>As I said in my previous post, I&#8217;ve never seen Fergie&#8217;s so busy, but I guess bars in the city on the weekend tend to draw a crowd, especially on the holidays.  The evening rolled on and a couple of folks started to leave for other destinations, but that&#8217;s when things started to get really weird.</p>\n<p>At 4pm they had started the Irish music.  The fiddle players kept multiplying through the evening, and I think there were a total of 9 musicians by the end of the night.  It was strange because every time I would look behind me, there would be another guy with a fiddle or a drum sitting at that table.</p>\n<p>The music was so good that it inspired three folks to spontaneously start Irish step dancing.  (<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/?v=3xs9ByXsqKo\">Cameraphone Video!</a>)  It was unexpected, yet very cool, and we all clapped along to the music and dancing.  I&#8217;m not a judge as to how good they were, but they were better than I would have done, I assure you, and fun to watch.</p>\n<p>Not too long afterwards, the pub was overrun by Santas from the <a href=\"http://www.santacon.com/\">Santacon</a>.  Here is the <a href=\"http://www.evite.com/pub/santacon/pubcrawl\">Philly evite</a>, and check out the <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/santacon/\">photos from other cities</a>, since the Philly Santas are obviously still too hung-over to have posted their own photos.</p>\n<p>Scott mentioned on Philly Future that there were 30 Santas.  The capacity in this bar is 48.  Yes, the place was actually freakin&#8217; packed with Santas and their helpers, elves, and Miss Clauses alike.</p>\n<p>Need <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/75207463/\">photographic</a> <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/75207464/\">evidence</a>?  Thank goodness for my Treo, or there might be only our word of this strange occurrance.</p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Santas left before we did, and we didn&#8217;t have to worry about the reindeer or sleighs causing any traffic issues when we were leaving.</p>\n<p>Ahem.</p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t leave until around 9pm to pick Pat up from the airport.  That&#8217;s a hella long meetup, and a roaring good time.  Hopefully next month&#8217;s is as grand.  Thanks everyone for coming out, see you next month!\n</p>\";}i:28;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:62:\"Owen Winkler: Philly WordPress Meetup - THIS SATURDAY, Dec. 17\";s:4:\"guid\";s:85:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/13/2155/philly-wordpress-meetup-this-saturday-dec-17/\";s:4:\"link\";s:85:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/13/2155/philly-wordpress-meetup-this-saturday-dec-17/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3081:\"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s this?&#8221; you ask.  &#8220;This meetup is a week early!&#8221;</p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right!  The dates have changed to avoid these blasted holidays.  It seems like every week we have a meetup there is some holiday like Christmas or Memorial Day or something.  So the monthly <a href=\"http://wordpress.meetup.com/84/\">Philadelphia WordPress meetups</a> are now the <strong>third Saturday</strong> of the month.</p>\n<p>Meetup time is 2pm.  Immediately following the WordPress meetup at 3pm (at least, last I looked) is the <a href=\"http://blog.meetup.com/309/\">Philadelphia Weblogger Meetup</a>.  It&#8217;s mostly Blogspot users, but they&#8217;re a fun group of prolific Philly bloggers.  It&#8217;s nice to see how the others live.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2155\"></a><br />\nI want to see about moving the meetup to a cleaner venue.  I like Fergie&#8217;s but it seems that some of the group isn&#8217;t down with the dark and smoky Irish bar scene.  That&#8217;s fine, but I&#8217;ll need to find someplace new.</p>\n<p>Jim suggested <a href=\"http://wordcafelive.com\">World Cafe Live</a>, and I&#8217;m going to drop by over there after the meetup to check out their space.  I wonder how much that&#8217;s going to cost me.  Hmm.</p>\n<p>In the future, assuming the group continues to show up, I would like to get some special guests.  Maybe I could get them to Skype into the Meetup and answer some questions or tell us about what they&#8217;re working on.  If you are interested in participating as a speaker, please let me know.</p>\n<p>If that pans out, I would like to produce a monthly podcast from the meetup.  It would be a summary of topics covered, and everyone could get some mic time, including the special guest.  I&#8217;m not sure how the format would work, but I think this would be of interest not only for luring more folks into our own den of geekines, but also for getting more people involved worldwide.</p>\n<p>Our group caters to a low-techie audience.  I&#8217;ve answered a bunch of new user questions, and I&#8217;m happy to do it.  Getting down with the people who actually use WordPress and make it popular gives me insight into how things can be made better for its audience.  And sometimes I just like to help.</p>\n<p>Many of our unscripted topics are of interest to computer users in general.  We don&#8217;t talk about WordPress and blogs through the whole meetup.  So don&#8217;t let that scare you away.  If you&#8217;re thinking of coming down for a walkthrough of the software, that&#8217;s not what this is really about.  We can tell you what we like about it, how we&#8217;ve accomplished things with it, what we use it for, and what we write about.  We can show you some new things, talk about new features, and give you a glimpse at the future.  But really, we just like to get together and hang out.</p>\n<p>Please join us this weekend for our December meetup at 2pm.  Meetups usually last for about 2 hours, sometimes longer.  Fergie&#8217;s often has live Irish music at 4pm, which isn&#8217;t half bad.  Come and enjoy!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:3081:\"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s this?&#8221; you ask.  &#8220;This meetup is a week early!&#8221;</p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right!  The dates have changed to avoid these blasted holidays.  It seems like every week we have a meetup there is some holiday like Christmas or Memorial Day or something.  So the monthly <a href=\"http://wordpress.meetup.com/84/\">Philadelphia WordPress meetups</a> are now the <strong>third Saturday</strong> of the month.</p>\n<p>Meetup time is 2pm.  Immediately following the WordPress meetup at 3pm (at least, last I looked) is the <a href=\"http://blog.meetup.com/309/\">Philadelphia Weblogger Meetup</a>.  It&#8217;s mostly Blogspot users, but they&#8217;re a fun group of prolific Philly bloggers.  It&#8217;s nice to see how the others live.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2155\"></a><br />\nI want to see about moving the meetup to a cleaner venue.  I like Fergie&#8217;s but it seems that some of the group isn&#8217;t down with the dark and smoky Irish bar scene.  That&#8217;s fine, but I&#8217;ll need to find someplace new.</p>\n<p>Jim suggested <a href=\"http://wordcafelive.com\">World Cafe Live</a>, and I&#8217;m going to drop by over there after the meetup to check out their space.  I wonder how much that&#8217;s going to cost me.  Hmm.</p>\n<p>In the future, assuming the group continues to show up, I would like to get some special guests.  Maybe I could get them to Skype into the Meetup and answer some questions or tell us about what they&#8217;re working on.  If you are interested in participating as a speaker, please let me know.</p>\n<p>If that pans out, I would like to produce a monthly podcast from the meetup.  It would be a summary of topics covered, and everyone could get some mic time, including the special guest.  I&#8217;m not sure how the format would work, but I think this would be of interest not only for luring more folks into our own den of geekines, but also for getting more people involved worldwide.</p>\n<p>Our group caters to a low-techie audience.  I&#8217;ve answered a bunch of new user questions, and I&#8217;m happy to do it.  Getting down with the people who actually use WordPress and make it popular gives me insight into how things can be made better for its audience.  And sometimes I just like to help.</p>\n<p>Many of our unscripted topics are of interest to computer users in general.  We don&#8217;t talk about WordPress and blogs through the whole meetup.  So don&#8217;t let that scare you away.  If you&#8217;re thinking of coming down for a walkthrough of the software, that&#8217;s not what this is really about.  We can tell you what we like about it, how we&#8217;ve accomplished things with it, what we use it for, and what we write about.  We can show you some new things, talk about new features, and give you a glimpse at the future.  But really, we just like to get together and hang out.</p>\n<p>Please join us this weekend for our December meetup at 2pm.  Meetups usually last for about 2 hours, sometimes longer.  Fergie&#8217;s often has live Irish music at 4pm, which isn&#8217;t half bad.  Come and enjoy!\n</p>\";}i:29;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"Owen Winkler: How to Patch WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:63:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/03/2142/how-to-patch-wordpress/\";s:4:\"link\";s:63:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/03/2142/how-to-patch-wordpress/\";s:11:\"description\";s:5703:\"<p>With the looming release of WordPress 2.0, there are a bunch of folks that are submitting bug fixes that say things like, &#8220;I would submit this to <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org\">Trac</a>, but I don&#8217;t know how.&#8221;  </p>\n<p>I think even more people are suggesting that writing to the mailing list with their bugs to &#8220;confirm&#8221; them is better than submitting them directly to Trac.  I suppose if you&#8217;re not sure something is a bug, it might be worthwhile to ask someone else (I would ask on IRC at #wordpress on irc.freenode.net) but it really is better to have a formal record of an issue, even if it turns out that what you&#8217;re experiencing is expected behavior.  If you really fear that it&#8217;s something to do specifically with your installation, check on IRC or maybe try a fresh install.</p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it might be useful to folks to learn how I do it.  I&#8217;m not saying my method is <em>correct</em>, just that it seems to get the job done with few complaints from the devs who commit my patches.  It&#8217;s also a good method to use on Windows.  (Sorry, someone else can document command-line Subversion use - not that I don&#8217;t know it, I&#8217;m just lazy.)  Here we go&#8230;<br />\n<a id=\"more-2142\"></a></p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to do to get an environment that is ripe for making source modifications:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Get a WordPress.org Support Forum Login</strong> - You need a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/register.php\">support forum login</a> to gain access to Trac.  <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org\">Trac</a> is the software WordPress uses for bug tracking, and it shares its login database with the support forum.</li>\n<li><strong>Download and Install Tortoise SVN</strong> - <a href=\"http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/\">Tortoise</a> is the best Subversion client for Windows.  It will let you get the latest source from the code repository without messing with funky nightly versions.</li>\n<li><strong>Install XAMPP</strong> - If you&#8217;re not already running Apache locally, you&#8217;re going to need it.  You can test under Microsoft&#8217;s IIS (and this is probably not a bad idea considering there are fewer people testing that environment) but if you&#8217;re not running Windows XP Pro (not Home), you may find this difficult.  <a href=\"http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html\">XAMPP</a> is Apache, MySQL, PHP and some other thing you don&#8217;t need for WordPress all rolled into one bundle.</li>\n<li><strong>Checkout a Copy of WordPress</strong> - Find the directory that XAMPP is using for its DocumentRoot and right-click on it (or create a &#8220;wordpress&#8221; directory there and right-click on that).  Select <em>SVN Checkout&#8230;</em>.  In the dialog, use http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk as the repository URL.  Click OK to download the latest WordPress source.</li>\n<li><strong>Make a Database</strong> - Use phpMyAdmin to create a new database for WordPress.  Navigate to http://localhost/phpmyadmin to see the interface.</li>\n<li><strong>Run the WordPress Install</strong> - I trust you already know how to do this.  If not, then perhaps patching is a bit advanced, no?</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Ok, now WordPress is running.  You should be able to do anything that you normally do with WordPress.</p>\n<p>At this point, you can modify code freely.  If you make a change you don&#8217;t like, you can always switch back to the original code.  Right-click on the file, choose <em> Tortoise SVN > Revert</em> and the file will be restored to the last checkout version.</p>\n<p>You should be able to see where you&#8217;ve made changes to the source by looking at the icon for the folder/file.  The ones that are changed will likely be red.</p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to do to make a patch:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Update your source</strong> - This step is pretty important, otherwise you might end up patching bugs back into source that&#8217;s already fixed.  Subversion has integrated merge features.  All you need to do is right-click on the wordpress root folder and select <em>SVN Update</em>.  If any of the files you edited come up as conflicted (in red in the list), you will need to merge them by hand in the tool provided when you double-click on the list item.</li>\n<li><strong>Create a patch</strong> - This is easy.  Right-click on the wordpress root folder and select <em>Tortoise SVN - Create Patch</em>.  A dialog appears to allow you to select the files you want to include in the patch.  Check the files you want to include, then save the patch file.  If I&#8217;m patching one file, I&#8217;ll usually use the full name of the file followed by &#8220;.diff&#8221;, for example, &#8220;admin-functions.php.diff&#8221;.</li>\n<li><strong>Find a Trac Ticket</strong> - To submit a patch, you need a ticket.  Be sure to search for an existing ticket for your issue before creating a new ticket.  If one doesn&#8217;t exist, create one and explain the problem as clearly as possible.  When you have a ticket, click <em>Attach File</em> and attach your patch file.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it, even though I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve left some trivial things out.</p>\n<p>The essential bit to recognize is that there really isn&#8217;t a good excuse for a developer to know enough to make code changes but not enough to use source control.  If you don&#8217;t know source control, consider that learning this simple task is a great way to pad your resume.  One way to scientifically demonstate that you can work well with teams is to show a proficiency with source code conrol tools.  Hopefully this short description will help you on your way.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:5703:\"<p>With the looming release of WordPress 2.0, there are a bunch of folks that are submitting bug fixes that say things like, &#8220;I would submit this to <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org\">Trac</a>, but I don&#8217;t know how.&#8221;  </p>\n<p>I think even more people are suggesting that writing to the mailing list with their bugs to &#8220;confirm&#8221; them is better than submitting them directly to Trac.  I suppose if you&#8217;re not sure something is a bug, it might be worthwhile to ask someone else (I would ask on IRC at #wordpress on irc.freenode.net) but it really is better to have a formal record of an issue, even if it turns out that what you&#8217;re experiencing is expected behavior.  If you really fear that it&#8217;s something to do specifically with your installation, check on IRC or maybe try a fresh install.</p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it might be useful to folks to learn how I do it.  I&#8217;m not saying my method is <em>correct</em>, just that it seems to get the job done with few complaints from the devs who commit my patches.  It&#8217;s also a good method to use on Windows.  (Sorry, someone else can document command-line Subversion use - not that I don&#8217;t know it, I&#8217;m just lazy.)  Here we go&#8230;<br />\n<a id=\"more-2142\"></a></p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to do to get an environment that is ripe for making source modifications:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Get a WordPress.org Support Forum Login</strong> - You need a <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/register.php\">support forum login</a> to gain access to Trac.  <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org\">Trac</a> is the software WordPress uses for bug tracking, and it shares its login database with the support forum.</li>\n<li><strong>Download and Install Tortoise SVN</strong> - <a href=\"http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/\">Tortoise</a> is the best Subversion client for Windows.  It will let you get the latest source from the code repository without messing with funky nightly versions.</li>\n<li><strong>Install XAMPP</strong> - If you&#8217;re not already running Apache locally, you&#8217;re going to need it.  You can test under Microsoft&#8217;s IIS (and this is probably not a bad idea considering there are fewer people testing that environment) but if you&#8217;re not running Windows XP Pro (not Home), you may find this difficult.  <a href=\"http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html\">XAMPP</a> is Apache, MySQL, PHP and some other thing you don&#8217;t need for WordPress all rolled into one bundle.</li>\n<li><strong>Checkout a Copy of WordPress</strong> - Find the directory that XAMPP is using for its DocumentRoot and right-click on it (or create a &#8220;wordpress&#8221; directory there and right-click on that).  Select <em>SVN Checkout&#8230;</em>.  In the dialog, use http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk as the repository URL.  Click OK to download the latest WordPress source.</li>\n<li><strong>Make a Database</strong> - Use phpMyAdmin to create a new database for WordPress.  Navigate to http://localhost/phpmyadmin to see the interface.</li>\n<li><strong>Run the WordPress Install</strong> - I trust you already know how to do this.  If not, then perhaps patching is a bit advanced, no?</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Ok, now WordPress is running.  You should be able to do anything that you normally do with WordPress.</p>\n<p>At this point, you can modify code freely.  If you make a change you don&#8217;t like, you can always switch back to the original code.  Right-click on the file, choose <em> Tortoise SVN > Revert</em> and the file will be restored to the last checkout version.</p>\n<p>You should be able to see where you&#8217;ve made changes to the source by looking at the icon for the folder/file.  The ones that are changed will likely be red.</p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to do to make a patch:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Update your source</strong> - This step is pretty important, otherwise you might end up patching bugs back into source that&#8217;s already fixed.  Subversion has integrated merge features.  All you need to do is right-click on the wordpress root folder and select <em>SVN Update</em>.  If any of the files you edited come up as conflicted (in red in the list), you will need to merge them by hand in the tool provided when you double-click on the list item.</li>\n<li><strong>Create a patch</strong> - This is easy.  Right-click on the wordpress root folder and select <em>Tortoise SVN - Create Patch</em>.  A dialog appears to allow you to select the files you want to include in the patch.  Check the files you want to include, then save the patch file.  If I&#8217;m patching one file, I&#8217;ll usually use the full name of the file followed by &#8220;.diff&#8221;, for example, &#8220;admin-functions.php.diff&#8221;.</li>\n<li><strong>Find a Trac Ticket</strong> - To submit a patch, you need a ticket.  Be sure to search for an existing ticket for your issue before creating a new ticket.  If one doesn&#8217;t exist, create one and explain the problem as clearly as possible.  When you have a ticket, click <em>Attach File</em> and attach your patch file.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it, even though I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve left some trivial things out.</p>\n<p>The essential bit to recognize is that there really isn&#8217;t a good excuse for a developer to know enough to make code changes but not enough to use source control.  If you don&#8217;t know source control, consider that learning this simple task is a great way to pad your resume.  One way to scientifically demonstate that you can work well with teams is to show a proficiency with source code conrol tools.  Hopefully this short description will help you on your way.</p>\";}i:30;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:44:\"Owen Winkler: What’s New in WordPress 2.0?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:66:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/\";s:4:\"link\";s:66:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/\";s:11:\"description\";s:7847:\"<p>WordPress 2.0 isn&#8217;t out yet, but every day that I spend on the #wordpress IRC channel, I see this question go by at least once:</p>\n<blockquote><p>What is new in WordPress 2.0 from 1.5?</p></blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t <em>you</em> like to know?</p>\n<p>One important note before we begin:  Many of the changes in WordPress from 1.5 to 2.0 are under the hood.  They are things that you&#8217;re not going to notice unless you are developer.  There are some features that casual users will notice that are significant, but (in my opinion) most of the real change has happened where most people won&#8217;t see.</p>\n<p>As a result, there is a fundamental thing to understand here.  What often looks like catering to plugin developers is actually of benefit to common users, because with the enhanced capabilities of the underlying engine it becomes possible to make better extensions faster than we could before.  The underlying engine has been made to work <em>better</em>.  There have been times while doing contract work on 1.5.x installations where two days of work were necessary to accomplish something that I could have done in 1.6 (now 2.0) in about 10 minutes.  Seriously.</p>\n<p>There has been a lot of talk in the WP scene about feature bloat, and it&#8217;s my own opinion that certain aspects of 2.0 are wildly overrated for what they do, but from an underlying technology standpoint, WordPress 2.0 is incredibly superior to the 1.5 codebase.</p>\n<p>So if you don&#8217;t want to upgrade because you don&#8217;t think that 2.0 offers you anything, just wait a couple months until the really fun plugins start appearing.</p>\n<p>Enough said on that.  On with the new features list, which is by no means comprehensive:<br />\n<a id=\"more-2135\"></a></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>More Abstracted Data Layer</strong> - The core WordPress code has been refactored to abstract direct calls to the database when adding posts, comments, and other data.  This will lead to improvements in database access (perhaps even supporting other database engines in the future) and plugin development, including&#8230;</li>\n<li><strong>New Import System</strong> - The new import system leverages the abstraction done at the data layer, so that import routines can call simple functions to convert posts from other blogging tools instead of a huge complicated series of queries.  Importers are also available directly from the admin, so no special process need be taken to employ them.  (Thanks, <a href=\"http://lair.fierydragon.org\">tinster</a>.)</li>\n<li><strong>Admin Redesign</strong> - It&#8217;s not so significant as the Tiger Admin plugin, but there are a few more gadgets in the admin, especially on the Write page.  You can now drag sections of the page to reorganize them, and click the plus/minus to expand/contract the sections.</li>\n<li><strong>The Rich Editor</strong> - WordPress has a new post editor built in that lets you see what you&#8217;re going to get without having to decipher tags.  You can also resize the editing area on the fly by dragging it, which is pretty cool.  Not everyone who has tried it likes the WYSIWYG editor, so there is an option to disable it on a per-user basis.</li>\n<li><strong>Image/File Uploading</strong> - Just under the Rich Editor in the Write panel, there is a new control that allows you to upload and insert images into your posts.  WordPress keeps track of these images and can even automatically provide dedicated pages to receive comments for them.</li>\n<li><strong>Improved Post Preview</strong> - Instead of displaying the post as plain text below the editor, the post is now displayed in an embedded frame, using all of the layout and CSS that is normally applied to your site.  In effect, the post looks <em>exactly</em> like it will when you publish it, giving you ample opportunity to review the post&#8217;s layout.</li>\n<li><strong>User Metadata</strong> - To support user-based options, the user data now sports a much more flexible structure.  People who use WordPress as a CMS can now use code to add custom data of any kind to any user profile.</li>\n<li><strong>User Roles and Capabilities</strong> - The &#8220;user level&#8221; concept of security has now been replaced with Roles.  WordPress associates a Role to each user. Roles have Capabilities such as &#8220;edit posts&#8221; and &#8220;activate plugins&#8221; that allow certain actions.  There is no more concept of hierarchical users, but plugin authors can now create whole new Capabilities to apply proper permission management.</li>\n<li><strong>Presentation Page Changes</strong> - WordPress 1.5 lets you switch themes, and 2.0 shows you what they look like before you do it.  If a theme includes a screenshot, you&#8217;ll see it in the Presentation admin panel to help you choose the theme for your site.</li>\n<li><strong>Ajax Category Addition</strong> - There&#8217;s a bunch of ajax in WordPress 2.0 and this is probably the most requested use of it.  This feature lets you add new categories directly from the post-writing page.</li>\n<li><strong>Ajax List Management</strong> - There are a few places in the admin that show lists of things and let you delete, like categories, posts, comments.  Now, instead of reloading, the row turns red and then fades out.</li>\n<li><strong>Moved Javascript/Images</strong> - Version 2.0 uses a lot more javascript than prior versions.  Some utilities, like <a href=\"http://www.axentric.com/posts/default/7\">FAT</a> (Fade Anything Technique) and <a href=\"http://twilightuniverse.com/2005/05/sack-of-ajax/\">SACK</a> (Simple Ajax Code Kit), can be used by other tools and plugins, so it&#8217;s good to put them someplace where developers know they will reside, and outside of the admin directory, which might have weird permissions.</li>\n<li><strong>Theme Admin Pages</strong> - The guys who worked on <a href=\"http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/k2/\">K2</a> went to some lengths to hack a custom configuration page for their theme into the WordPress admin.  Now that capability is easily available by including a functions.php file with the theme.  You can see this at work in the new header generator for the Default theme.</li>\n<li><strong>Ping Delay Removed</strong> - Rather than pinging trackbacks and pingbacks when the post is saved (this causes the delay you see when posting to WP1.5), the pings are attempted via a different method that allows the admin interface to respond more quickly.</li>\n<li><strong>Persistent Cache</strong> - There are certain types of queries that WordPress makes to the database repeatedly.  To speed things up, the results of these queries are cached to disk.  This caching is still compatible with other caching plugins, like WP-Cache, and could be just enough of a boost for larger sites to avoid optimizing everything.</li>\n<li><strong>Database Versioning</strong> - Now when updates are made to the database schema, your admin panel will tell you to run the upgrade routines.  This is handy because it keeps your database fresh enough to support the code that runs on it.</li>\n<li><strong>New Built-In Plugins</strong> - WordPress 2.0 is now packed with the Akismet plugin for comment spam prevention, and the WP-DB-Backup plugin for manual or automated database backups.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Those are the major features added since 1.5.2 was released on August 20th.  In addition to these major items (did I forget anything, anyone?) a few hundred bug fixes have been applied.  I did not count them to know the specific number, but there were a lot.  If you have a favorite bug that you wanted squashed, you should head over to <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org\">the bug database</a> and search for it.  If you don&#8217;t find your bug, <em>add it</em>.  (Use your WordPress support forum login for the bug database - It&#8217;s easy!)\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:7847:\"<p>WordPress 2.0 isn&#8217;t out yet, but every day that I spend on the #wordpress IRC channel, I see this question go by at least once:</p>\n<blockquote><p>What is new in WordPress 2.0 from 1.5?</p></blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t <em>you</em> like to know?</p>\n<p>One important note before we begin:  Many of the changes in WordPress from 1.5 to 2.0 are under the hood.  They are things that you&#8217;re not going to notice unless you are developer.  There are some features that casual users will notice that are significant, but (in my opinion) most of the real change has happened where most people won&#8217;t see.</p>\n<p>As a result, there is a fundamental thing to understand here.  What often looks like catering to plugin developers is actually of benefit to common users, because with the enhanced capabilities of the underlying engine it becomes possible to make better extensions faster than we could before.  The underlying engine has been made to work <em>better</em>.  There have been times while doing contract work on 1.5.x installations where two days of work were necessary to accomplish something that I could have done in 1.6 (now 2.0) in about 10 minutes.  Seriously.</p>\n<p>There has been a lot of talk in the WP scene about feature bloat, and it&#8217;s my own opinion that certain aspects of 2.0 are wildly overrated for what they do, but from an underlying technology standpoint, WordPress 2.0 is incredibly superior to the 1.5 codebase.</p>\n<p>So if you don&#8217;t want to upgrade because you don&#8217;t think that 2.0 offers you anything, just wait a couple months until the really fun plugins start appearing.</p>\n<p>Enough said on that.  On with the new features list, which is by no means comprehensive:<br />\n<a id=\"more-2135\"></a></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>More Abstracted Data Layer</strong> - The core WordPress code has been refactored to abstract direct calls to the database when adding posts, comments, and other data.  This will lead to improvements in database access (perhaps even supporting other database engines in the future) and plugin development, including&#8230;</li>\n<li><strong>New Import System</strong> - The new import system leverages the abstraction done at the data layer, so that import routines can call simple functions to convert posts from other blogging tools instead of a huge complicated series of queries.  Importers are also available directly from the admin, so no special process need be taken to employ them.  (Thanks, <a href=\"http://lair.fierydragon.org\">tinster</a>.)</li>\n<li><strong>Admin Redesign</strong> - It&#8217;s not so significant as the Tiger Admin plugin, but there are a few more gadgets in the admin, especially on the Write page.  You can now drag sections of the page to reorganize them, and click the plus/minus to expand/contract the sections.</li>\n<li><strong>The Rich Editor</strong> - WordPress has a new post editor built in that lets you see what you&#8217;re going to get without having to decipher tags.  You can also resize the editing area on the fly by dragging it, which is pretty cool.  Not everyone who has tried it likes the WYSIWYG editor, so there is an option to disable it on a per-user basis.</li>\n<li><strong>Image/File Uploading</strong> - Just under the Rich Editor in the Write panel, there is a new control that allows you to upload and insert images into your posts.  WordPress keeps track of these images and can even automatically provide dedicated pages to receive comments for them.</li>\n<li><strong>Improved Post Preview</strong> - Instead of displaying the post as plain text below the editor, the post is now displayed in an embedded frame, using all of the layout and CSS that is normally applied to your site.  In effect, the post looks <em>exactly</em> like it will when you publish it, giving you ample opportunity to review the post&#8217;s layout.</li>\n<li><strong>User Metadata</strong> - To support user-based options, the user data now sports a much more flexible structure.  People who use WordPress as a CMS can now use code to add custom data of any kind to any user profile.</li>\n<li><strong>User Roles and Capabilities</strong> - The &#8220;user level&#8221; concept of security has now been replaced with Roles.  WordPress associates a Role to each user. Roles have Capabilities such as &#8220;edit posts&#8221; and &#8220;activate plugins&#8221; that allow certain actions.  There is no more concept of hierarchical users, but plugin authors can now create whole new Capabilities to apply proper permission management.</li>\n<li><strong>Presentation Page Changes</strong> - WordPress 1.5 lets you switch themes, and 2.0 shows you what they look like before you do it.  If a theme includes a screenshot, you&#8217;ll see it in the Presentation admin panel to help you choose the theme for your site.</li>\n<li><strong>Ajax Category Addition</strong> - There&#8217;s a bunch of ajax in WordPress 2.0 and this is probably the most requested use of it.  This feature lets you add new categories directly from the post-writing page.</li>\n<li><strong>Ajax List Management</strong> - There are a few places in the admin that show lists of things and let you delete, like categories, posts, comments.  Now, instead of reloading, the row turns red and then fades out.</li>\n<li><strong>Moved Javascript/Images</strong> - Version 2.0 uses a lot more javascript than prior versions.  Some utilities, like <a href=\"http://www.axentric.com/posts/default/7\">FAT</a> (Fade Anything Technique) and <a href=\"http://twilightuniverse.com/2005/05/sack-of-ajax/\">SACK</a> (Simple Ajax Code Kit), can be used by other tools and plugins, so it&#8217;s good to put them someplace where developers know they will reside, and outside of the admin directory, which might have weird permissions.</li>\n<li><strong>Theme Admin Pages</strong> - The guys who worked on <a href=\"http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/k2/\">K2</a> went to some lengths to hack a custom configuration page for their theme into the WordPress admin.  Now that capability is easily available by including a functions.php file with the theme.  You can see this at work in the new header generator for the Default theme.</li>\n<li><strong>Ping Delay Removed</strong> - Rather than pinging trackbacks and pingbacks when the post is saved (this causes the delay you see when posting to WP1.5), the pings are attempted via a different method that allows the admin interface to respond more quickly.</li>\n<li><strong>Persistent Cache</strong> - There are certain types of queries that WordPress makes to the database repeatedly.  To speed things up, the results of these queries are cached to disk.  This caching is still compatible with other caching plugins, like WP-Cache, and could be just enough of a boost for larger sites to avoid optimizing everything.</li>\n<li><strong>Database Versioning</strong> - Now when updates are made to the database schema, your admin panel will tell you to run the upgrade routines.  This is handy because it keeps your database fresh enough to support the code that runs on it.</li>\n<li><strong>New Built-In Plugins</strong> - WordPress 2.0 is now packed with the Akismet plugin for comment spam prevention, and the WP-DB-Backup plugin for manual or automated database backups.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Those are the major features added since 1.5.2 was released on August 20th.  In addition to these major items (did I forget anything, anyone?) a few hundred bug fixes have been applied.  I did not count them to know the specific number, but there were a lot.  If you have a favorite bug that you wanted squashed, you should head over to <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org\">the bug database</a> and search for it.  If you don&#8217;t find your bug, <em>add it</em>.  (Use your WordPress support forum login for the bug database - It&#8217;s easy!)\n</p>\";}i:31;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Owen Winkler: Adhesive Updated\";s:4:\"guid\";s:57:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/21/2113/adhesive-updated/\";s:4:\"link\";s:57:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/21/2113/adhesive-updated/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1523:\"<p><a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Adhesive\"><img src=\"http://asymptomatic.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/thumb-adhesive.gif\" alt=\"Adhesive Sticky Setting\" /></a> I have updated Adhesive for WordPress 2.0 and released <a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Adhesive\">a preliminary archive of the plugin</a>.  There is a glitch in WordPress that prevents code in the footer of the post edit page from executing.  I have submitted <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1932\">a support ticket</a> with a patch for this issue.  As soon as that patch is applied, things should work swimmingly.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/65557742/\"><img src=\"http://static.flickr.com/27/65557742_77d140826d_t.jpg\" alt=\"Adhesive Config Demo\" /></a>What&#8217;s new in Adhesive?  Not much, really.  The new version does make use of something new I&#8217;m trying out for configuration.  Instead of using up a whole menu slot for a config page with only three options, I&#8217;ve made a kind of Ajax popup thing.  You kind of need to <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/65557742/\">see it</a> to understand what I&#8217;m talking about.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2113\"></a><br />\nThis plugin is just the first plugin of a slew of updates that I&#8217;m planning for the next couple of weeks.  I know that Adhesive is a popular plugin, so I hope that people who are trying out the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/forum/12\">WordPress 2.0 Beta</a> will also give Adhesive a shot and let me know what issues they encounter.</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1523:\"<p><a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Adhesive\"><img src=\"http://asymptomatic.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/thumb-adhesive.gif\" alt=\"Adhesive Sticky Setting\" /></a> I have updated Adhesive for WordPress 2.0 and released <a href=\"http://redalt.com/wiki/Adhesive\">a preliminary archive of the plugin</a>.  There is a glitch in WordPress that prevents code in the footer of the post edit page from executing.  I have submitted <a href=\"http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1932\">a support ticket</a> with a patch for this issue.  As soon as that patch is applied, things should work swimmingly.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/65557742/\"><img src=\"http://static.flickr.com/27/65557742_77d140826d_t.jpg\" alt=\"Adhesive Config Demo\" /></a>What&#8217;s new in Adhesive?  Not much, really.  The new version does make use of something new I&#8217;m trying out for configuration.  Instead of using up a whole menu slot for a config page with only three options, I&#8217;ve made a kind of Ajax popup thing.  You kind of need to <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/asy/65557742/\">see it</a> to understand what I&#8217;m talking about.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2113\"></a><br />\nThis plugin is just the first plugin of a slew of updates that I&#8217;m planning for the next couple of weeks.  I know that Adhesive is a popular plugin, so I hope that people who are trying out the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/forum/12\">WordPress 2.0 Beta</a> will also give Adhesive a shot and let me know what issues they encounter.</p>\";}i:32;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Owen Winkler: Anybody Else Notice This?\";s:4:\"guid\";s:65:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/18/2107/anybody-else-notice-this/\";s:4:\"link\";s:65:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/18/2107/anybody-else-notice-this/\";s:11:\"description\";s:930:\"<p><a href=\"http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/wp-includes/version.php\">Beta1</a>?</p>\n<p>As far as I know, the only other place you can find this out is via the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49790\">support forums</a> and the <a href=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2005-November/000726.html\">wp-testers mailing list</a>.  And since there&#8217;s a link to the downoad on the forum post, I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s a public beta.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2107\"></a><br />\nIf you&#8217;re brave, roll it out.  If you&#8217;re not brave, <em>you might want to wait for a second beta</em>.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a list of changes since 1.5.x, you&#8217;re going to have to wait a little while for the compilation.  There are a <em>lot</em>.  Most of the stuff is internal, stuff that you&#8217;re not going to notice - and that stuff that goes unnoticed is why the system is great.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:930:\"<p><a href=\"http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/wp-includes/version.php\">Beta1</a>?</p>\n<p>As far as I know, the only other place you can find this out is via the <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49790\">support forums</a> and the <a href=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2005-November/000726.html\">wp-testers mailing list</a>.  And since there&#8217;s a link to the downoad on the forum post, I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s a public beta.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2107\"></a><br />\nIf you&#8217;re brave, roll it out.  If you&#8217;re not brave, <em>you might want to wait for a second beta</em>.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a list of changes since 1.5.x, you&#8217;re going to have to wait a little while for the compilation.  There are a <em>lot</em>.  Most of the stuff is internal, stuff that you&#8217;re not going to notice - and that stuff that goes unnoticed is why the system is great.\n</p>\";}i:33;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"Owen Winkler: Skippy and Ryan in Hershey\";s:4:\"guid\";s:67:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/18/2106/skippy-and-ryan-in-hershey/\";s:4:\"link\";s:67:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/18/2106/skippy-and-ryan-in-hershey/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2773:\"<p><img src=\"http://static.flickr.com/31/64464633_cfb0e32396_m.jpg\" alt=\"Skippy and Ryan at Your Place\" />I&#8217;ve been complacent in my posting this week.  Too much to do between Riley&#8217;s birthday and work and not sleeping properly.  I totally forgot to mention that I met with <a href=\"http://skippy.net/\">Skippy</a> and <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/\">Ryan</a> this past Saturday.</p>\n<p>I met <a href=\"http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/11/12/hershey-pa/\">Skippy</a> and <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/archives/2005/11/13/lunch-with-some-pals/\">Ryan</a> both through WordPress, primarily by talking with them via IRC, and they&#8217;re both into WordPress and blogging enough that they beat me to the web to talk about our meeting.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2106\"></a><br />\n&#8220;Your Place&#8221; was a strangely named place to get together.  I was very confused when Ryan first mentioned it.  Also weird was that after my hour+ drive out there, the bardenter had me use the ladies&#8217; room.  It smelled of flowers and had no discolored puddles on the floor.  Odd indeed.</p>\n<p>The company was quite cool.  We discussed some WordPress things, of course, along with some other web technology stuff.  We exchanged job descriptions, the typical first-meeting stuff.  And there was beer, which is always good.</p>\n<p>I learned that <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/archives/2005/11/18/wedding-bells/\">Ryan&#8217;s getting married tomorrow</a>, so stop by his site and wish him well.  Yeah, I&#8217;ll drive an hour to meet with a guy and not even realize before I get there that he&#8217;s getting married in a week.  I feel like a sap!</p>\n<p>Skippy game me a cool Skippy.net bumpersticker.  I haven&#8217;t decided what to do with it yet.  Maybe stick it to my computer case.  Surely I won&#8217;t be applying <a href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/skippy_net\">Skippy&#8217;s mug</a> to my bumper.</p>\n<p>Anyhow, I had a good retreat to chocolate country, and it was great to finally meet in person with these two guys I talk to all the time.</p>\n<p>This might be the last WordPress meetup for me this year, since the <a href=\"http://wordpress.meetup.com/84/\">Philly meetup</a> folks have the next meetup on Thanskgiving weekend, and I&#8217;ll be out of town.  And December&#8217;s meetup is on Christmas eve, when I doubt I will find a blogger to hang with.  So January&#8217;s meetup should offer my return to real-life appearances, if that means anything to you.  I&#8217;m looking forward to catching up with <a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/\">masquerade</a> from #wordpress IRC at that one.  I&#8217;ll have to remind him to show.</p>\n<p>Someone needs to print #wordpress trading cards so we can collect them.  I think Skippy&#8217;s ahead in the race so far.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:2773:\"<p><img src=\"http://static.flickr.com/31/64464633_cfb0e32396_m.jpg\" alt=\"Skippy and Ryan at Your Place\" />I&#8217;ve been complacent in my posting this week.  Too much to do between Riley&#8217;s birthday and work and not sleeping properly.  I totally forgot to mention that I met with <a href=\"http://skippy.net/\">Skippy</a> and <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/\">Ryan</a> this past Saturday.</p>\n<p>I met <a href=\"http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/11/12/hershey-pa/\">Skippy</a> and <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/archives/2005/11/13/lunch-with-some-pals/\">Ryan</a> both through WordPress, primarily by talking with them via IRC, and they&#8217;re both into WordPress and blogging enough that they beat me to the web to talk about our meeting.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2106\"></a><br />\n&#8220;Your Place&#8221; was a strangely named place to get together.  I was very confused when Ryan first mentioned it.  Also weird was that after my hour+ drive out there, the bardenter had me use the ladies&#8217; room.  It smelled of flowers and had no discolored puddles on the floor.  Odd indeed.</p>\n<p>The company was quite cool.  We discussed some WordPress things, of course, along with some other web technology stuff.  We exchanged job descriptions, the typical first-meeting stuff.  And there was beer, which is always good.</p>\n<p>I learned that <a href=\"http://ryanduff.net/archives/2005/11/18/wedding-bells/\">Ryan&#8217;s getting married tomorrow</a>, so stop by his site and wish him well.  Yeah, I&#8217;ll drive an hour to meet with a guy and not even realize before I get there that he&#8217;s getting married in a week.  I feel like a sap!</p>\n<p>Skippy game me a cool Skippy.net bumpersticker.  I haven&#8217;t decided what to do with it yet.  Maybe stick it to my computer case.  Surely I won&#8217;t be applying <a href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/skippy_net\">Skippy&#8217;s mug</a> to my bumper.</p>\n<p>Anyhow, I had a good retreat to chocolate country, and it was great to finally meet in person with these two guys I talk to all the time.</p>\n<p>This might be the last WordPress meetup for me this year, since the <a href=\"http://wordpress.meetup.com/84/\">Philly meetup</a> folks have the next meetup on Thanskgiving weekend, and I&#8217;ll be out of town.  And December&#8217;s meetup is on Christmas eve, when I doubt I will find a blogger to hang with.  So January&#8217;s meetup should offer my return to real-life appearances, if that means anything to you.  I&#8217;m looking forward to catching up with <a href=\"http://somethingunpredictable.com/\">masquerade</a> from #wordpress IRC at that one.  I&#8217;ll have to remind him to show.</p>\n<p>Someone needs to print #wordpress trading cards so we can collect them.  I think Skippy&#8217;s ahead in the race so far.\n</p>\";}i:34;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:34:\"Owen Winkler: New Stuff at Red Alt\";s:4:\"guid\";s:61:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/10/2098/new-stuff-at-red-alt/\";s:4:\"link\";s:61:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/10/2098/new-stuff-at-red-alt/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3627:\"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t think of this sooner.</p>\n<p>I downloaded a copy of <a href=\"http://bbPress.org\">bbPress</a> to put on <a href=\"http://redalt.com\">Red Alt</a> to keep track of <a href=\"http://redalt.com/support\">support issues</a>.  Hey, it&#8217;s not a ticket-based system, it&#8217;s better &#8212; It allows the community to pool their knowledge for support.  Hopefully that means I won&#8217;t have to do it all myself.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making some other changes over at RedAlt, too.  I&#8217;m slowly building a new download section so that things are easier to find.  While I&#8217;m doing it, I&#8217;m writing up that missing documentation for the plugins that are laying around over there.  Most of them didn&#8217;t really need documentation when they started, so I never wrote any, and then as they got more complicated they needed documentation that I never thought to write.</p>\n<p>Plus many of those plugins need WordPress 1.6 treatment.  Some of them are already ready, just not sitting out there for download yet because they&#8217;re waiting for the organizational changes to come through.  I&#8217;m thinking about how I&#8217;m going to organize everything so that you download the correct version for your copy of WordPress.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2098\"></a><br />\nI built a new forum for each plugin (although I think I might be missing one or two, now that I think about it).  I&#8217;m quite pleased with the way I have been able to integrate the bbPress layout into the new site.  How much tweaking I did to the bbPress templates - well, that&#8217;s another question.  Some of the stuff I need to look at a little more closely because although I like the ajax features, I&#8217;m not fond of their layout.  Specifically the topic informaton that appears near the top of each topic.  I&#8217;m anxious to change the way it looks, but I don&#8217;t want to break the way ajax is working there.</p>\n<p>Something else I was considering is a plugin to synchronize the Red Alt forum user list with my WordPress user list here at Asymptomatic.  If they were the same site, I think it would be easy.  If they were on the same server it would be more possible.  But neither of these are true.  So it looks like there might be a need for a WordPress plugin that accepts requests from remote servers for user authentication.  (Someone&#8217;s going to say &#8220;LDAP&#8221; and I&#8217;m going to say &#8220;Stick a sock in it&#8221;, but I&#8217;m just a curmudgeon.)  I&#8217;ll need to think about alternatives to that.</p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m on the topic of plugins, someone needs to write a plugin that reorganizes the category list in the post-writing screen so that the most-used categories appear topmost in the list.  This alphabetical business is for the birds.  And while they&#8217;re at it, it might differentiate the most used category as posted from the bookmarklet, and use that as the default there.  It&#8217;s a minor annoyance, since I only ever use the bookmarklet to post in one category (what you might call &#8220;asides&#8221;, the &#8220;linklog&#8221;) and I always have to scroll down to the &#8220;L&#8221;s and check that one when I just want to quick link to something.  Maybe I should just change the bookmarklet functionality altogether.</p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m kind of day-dreaming aloud.  <img src=\"http://asymptomatic.net/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> </p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the new forum thing and let me know what you think.  And, of course, post support issues over there where we can all get at them.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:3627:\"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t think of this sooner.</p>\n<p>I downloaded a copy of <a href=\"http://bbPress.org\">bbPress</a> to put on <a href=\"http://redalt.com\">Red Alt</a> to keep track of <a href=\"http://redalt.com/support\">support issues</a>.  Hey, it&#8217;s not a ticket-based system, it&#8217;s better &#8212; It allows the community to pool their knowledge for support.  Hopefully that means I won&#8217;t have to do it all myself.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making some other changes over at RedAlt, too.  I&#8217;m slowly building a new download section so that things are easier to find.  While I&#8217;m doing it, I&#8217;m writing up that missing documentation for the plugins that are laying around over there.  Most of them didn&#8217;t really need documentation when they started, so I never wrote any, and then as they got more complicated they needed documentation that I never thought to write.</p>\n<p>Plus many of those plugins need WordPress 1.6 treatment.  Some of them are already ready, just not sitting out there for download yet because they&#8217;re waiting for the organizational changes to come through.  I&#8217;m thinking about how I&#8217;m going to organize everything so that you download the correct version for your copy of WordPress.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2098\"></a><br />\nI built a new forum for each plugin (although I think I might be missing one or two, now that I think about it).  I&#8217;m quite pleased with the way I have been able to integrate the bbPress layout into the new site.  How much tweaking I did to the bbPress templates - well, that&#8217;s another question.  Some of the stuff I need to look at a little more closely because although I like the ajax features, I&#8217;m not fond of their layout.  Specifically the topic informaton that appears near the top of each topic.  I&#8217;m anxious to change the way it looks, but I don&#8217;t want to break the way ajax is working there.</p>\n<p>Something else I was considering is a plugin to synchronize the Red Alt forum user list with my WordPress user list here at Asymptomatic.  If they were the same site, I think it would be easy.  If they were on the same server it would be more possible.  But neither of these are true.  So it looks like there might be a need for a WordPress plugin that accepts requests from remote servers for user authentication.  (Someone&#8217;s going to say &#8220;LDAP&#8221; and I&#8217;m going to say &#8220;Stick a sock in it&#8221;, but I&#8217;m just a curmudgeon.)  I&#8217;ll need to think about alternatives to that.</p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m on the topic of plugins, someone needs to write a plugin that reorganizes the category list in the post-writing screen so that the most-used categories appear topmost in the list.  This alphabetical business is for the birds.  And while they&#8217;re at it, it might differentiate the most used category as posted from the bookmarklet, and use that as the default there.  It&#8217;s a minor annoyance, since I only ever use the bookmarklet to post in one category (what you might call &#8220;asides&#8221;, the &#8220;linklog&#8221;) and I always have to scroll down to the &#8220;L&#8221;s and check that one when I just want to quick link to something.  Maybe I should just change the bookmarklet functionality altogether.</p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m kind of day-dreaming aloud.  <img src=\"http://asymptomatic.net/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> </p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the new forum thing and let me know what you think.  And, of course, post support issues over there where we can all get at them.\n</p>\";}i:35;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"Owen Winkler: How to use Flickr on WordPress.com\";s:4:\"guid\";s:74:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/03/2083/how-to-use-flickr-on-wordpresscom/\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/03/2083/how-to-use-flickr-on-wordpresscom/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1407:\"<p>I wrote this post over at <a href=\"http://owen.wordpress.com\">my WordPress.com blog</a>, but I figured I would post it here because people actually <em>read</em> this one.</p>\n<p>You might have noticed the new tab in the media box at WordPress.com labeled &#8220;Browse Flickr&#8221;.  I am partially responsible for that functionality.  <a href=\"http://andy.wordpress.com/2005/11/02/wordpress-likes-flickr/\" title=\"Andy\'s WordPress/Flickr post\">Andy Skelton</a> coded the bulk of the media browser, and I added the Flickr tab by copying a lot of his code and mixing in the Flickr API.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2083\"></a><br />\nRather than bore you with written details of how it works, I&#8217;ll just direct you to the animations I made for using the media browser on both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Check them out, there are instructions in the photo descriptions for each!</p>\n<p>On Firefox: <a title=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using Firefox\" href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/94632485@N00/59368625/\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"74\" alt=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using Firefox\" src=\"http://static.flickr.com/31/59368625_77fd572f8e_t.jpg\" /></a></p>\n<p>On Internet Explorer: <a title=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using IE\" href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/94632485@N00/59375719/\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"78\" alt=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using IE\" src=\"http://static.flickr.com/30/59375719_5f04f668f9_t.jpg\" /></a>\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:00:15 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1407:\"<p>I wrote this post over at <a href=\"http://owen.wordpress.com\">my WordPress.com blog</a>, but I figured I would post it here because people actually <em>read</em> this one.</p>\n<p>You might have noticed the new tab in the media box at WordPress.com labeled &#8220;Browse Flickr&#8221;.  I am partially responsible for that functionality.  <a href=\"http://andy.wordpress.com/2005/11/02/wordpress-likes-flickr/\" title=\"Andy\'s WordPress/Flickr post\">Andy Skelton</a> coded the bulk of the media browser, and I added the Flickr tab by copying a lot of his code and mixing in the Flickr API.<br />\n<a id=\"more-2083\"></a><br />\nRather than bore you with written details of how it works, I&#8217;ll just direct you to the animations I made for using the media browser on both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Check them out, there are instructions in the photo descriptions for each!</p>\n<p>On Firefox: <a title=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using Firefox\" href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/94632485@N00/59368625/\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"74\" alt=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using Firefox\" src=\"http://static.flickr.com/31/59368625_77fd572f8e_t.jpg\" /></a></p>\n<p>On Internet Explorer: <a title=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using IE\" href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/94632485@N00/59375719/\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"78\" alt=\"Flickr on WordPress.com using IE\" src=\"http://static.flickr.com/30/59375719_5f04f668f9_t.jpg\" /></a>\n</p>\";}i:36;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Upload Management Tip\";s:4:\"guid\";s:85:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/22/wordpress-upload-management-tip/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=538\";s:11:\"description\";s:214:\"<p><a href=\"http://gfmorris.org/archives/2005/12/17/wordpress-upload-management-tip/\">WordPress Upload Management Tip</a>: If you have a Wordpress upload folder (like my b2-img) that is overflowing with stuff. </p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:28 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:214:\"<p><a href=\"http://gfmorris.org/archives/2005/12/17/wordpress-upload-management-tip/\">WordPress Upload Management Tip</a>: If you have a Wordpress upload folder (like my b2-img) that is overflowing with stuff. </p>\";}i:37;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:31:\"Dougal Campbell: WordPress Book\";s:4:\"guid\";s:56:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book\";s:4:\"link\";s:56:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book\";s:11:\"description\";s:1931:\"<div class=\"pull-quote\">\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=geekramblings-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=1590595629%2526tag=geekramblings-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/1590595629%25253FSubscriptionId=176NS69FPV23CNJ0TT02\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img src=\"http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590595629.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress\" /></a>\n<p>\nBuilding Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress\n</p>\n</div>\n<p>\nWell, actually, the book isn\'t <em>just</em> about WordPress. But it does devote six chapters to our favorite blogging platform. The book I\'m talking about is <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=geekramblings-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=1590595629%2526tag=geekramblings-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/1590595629%25253FSubscriptionId=176NS69FPV23CNJ0TT02\">Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress</a>, co-authored by <a href=\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/12/22/wordpress-book-published/\">Mike Little</a>.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. This isn’t a “how to use WordPress” book (the excellent WordPress Codex is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.\n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\nIt\'s published by Apress, who really seem to get the Open Source community. I\'ve got several other books by them, and I hope to write up some reviews eventually. I\'ll have to see if I can add Mike\'s book to my collection, too!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:49:12 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1931:\"<div class=\"pull-quote\">\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=geekramblings-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=1590595629%2526tag=geekramblings-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/1590595629%25253FSubscriptionId=176NS69FPV23CNJ0TT02\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img src=\"http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590595629.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress\" /></a>\n<p>\nBuilding Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress\n</p>\n</div>\n<p>\nWell, actually, the book isn\'t <em>just</em> about WordPress. But it does devote six chapters to our favorite blogging platform. The book I\'m talking about is <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=geekramblings-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=1590595629%2526tag=geekramblings-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/1590595629%25253FSubscriptionId=176NS69FPV23CNJ0TT02\">Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress</a>, co-authored by <a href=\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/12/22/wordpress-book-published/\">Mike Little</a>.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. This isn’t a “how to use WordPress” book (the excellent WordPress Codex is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.\n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\nIt\'s published by Apress, who really seem to get the Open Source community. I\'ve got several other books by them, and I hope to write up some reviews eventually. I\'ll have to see if I can add Mike\'s book to my collection, too!\n</p>\";}i:38;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Mike Little: WordPress Book Published\";s:4:\"guid\";s:73:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/12/22/wordpress-book-published/\";s:4:\"link\";s:73:\"http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2005/12/22/wordpress-book-published/\";s:11:\"description\";s:3535:\"<p><img src=\"http://zed1.com/images/bookshot1-small.jpg\" alt=\"The book!\" />Wow! It&#8217;s hard to believe, but my first book is now a reality! Several copies of my first book &mdash; &#8220;<a href=\"http://www.apress.com/affiliate/getlink.html?l=17\">Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress</a>&#8221; arrived at my door this morning. </p>\n	<p>This is the book, published by <a href=\"http://apress.com/\">Apress</a> that I have co-authored with <a href=\"http://www.robshouse.net/\">Robert T Douglass</a>  and <a href=\"http://www.jaredwsmith.com/\">Jared Smith</a> over the last six months or so. It has long been my ambition to be published and when the opportunity presented itself earlier this year, I had to grab it with both hands. It has been quite a hard struggle; writing in a small amount of spare time is not easy, but I do think it has been worth it.</p>\n	<p>The result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. This isn&#8217;t a &#8220;how to use WordPress&#8221; book (the excellent <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/\">WordPress Codex</a> is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.</p>\n	<p>You can buy the book online <a href=\"http://www.apress.com/affiliate/getlink.html?l=17\">directly from Apress</a> including in eBook form. You can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=zed1com-21&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=1590595629%26index=blended\">buy from Amazon.co.uk</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=zed1com-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /> or you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=zed1com-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=1590595629%26index=blended\">buy  it from Amazon.com</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=zed1com-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" />. I&#8217;m not sure whether it will be on the shelves of your local book store yet, but it will be over the next couple of days.</p>\n	<p>Apress have a good summary of the book (my emphasis):</p>\n	<blockquote><p>\nContent management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.</p>\n	<p>Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And <strong>WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community</strong>. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.</p></blockquote>\n	<p><img src=\"http://zed1.com/images/jamie-book-small.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie and I with the book\" />Finally, I think <a href=\"http://jamie-online.com/jays-world/\">Jamie</a> is quite proud of her Dad, <a href=\"http://jan.zed1.net/\">Jan</a> is just glad it&#8217;s finally published! I must thank them both for putting up with me while I&#8217;ve struggled through this. The next one will be easier! I have to thank <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a>, <a href=\"http://boren.nu/\">Ryan</a>, and the rest of the WordPress community, without whom I would have had nothing to write about!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:30:18 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:3535:\"<p><img src=\"http://zed1.com/images/bookshot1-small.jpg\" alt=\"The book!\" />Wow! It&#8217;s hard to believe, but my first book is now a reality! Several copies of my first book &mdash; &#8220;<a href=\"http://www.apress.com/affiliate/getlink.html?l=17\">Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress</a>&#8221; arrived at my door this morning. </p>\n	<p>This is the book, published by <a href=\"http://apress.com/\">Apress</a> that I have co-authored with <a href=\"http://www.robshouse.net/\">Robert T Douglass</a>  and <a href=\"http://www.jaredwsmith.com/\">Jared Smith</a> over the last six months or so. It has long been my ambition to be published and when the opportunity presented itself earlier this year, I had to grab it with both hands. It has been quite a hard struggle; writing in a small amount of spare time is not easy, but I do think it has been worth it.</p>\n	<p>The result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. This isn&#8217;t a &#8220;how to use WordPress&#8221; book (the excellent <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/\">WordPress Codex</a> is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.</p>\n	<p>You can buy the book online <a href=\"http://www.apress.com/affiliate/getlink.html?l=17\">directly from Apress</a> including in eBook form. You can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=zed1com-21&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=1590595629%26index=blended\">buy from Amazon.co.uk</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=zed1com-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /> or you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=zed1com-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=1590595629%26index=blended\">buy  it from Amazon.com</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=zed1com-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" />. I&#8217;m not sure whether it will be on the shelves of your local book store yet, but it will be over the next couple of days.</p>\n	<p>Apress have a good summary of the book (my emphasis):</p>\n	<blockquote><p>\nContent management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.</p>\n	<p>Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And <strong>WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community</strong>. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.</p></blockquote>\n	<p><img src=\"http://zed1.com/images/jamie-book-small.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie and I with the book\" />Finally, I think <a href=\"http://jamie-online.com/jays-world/\">Jamie</a> is quite proud of her Dad, <a href=\"http://jan.zed1.net/\">Jan</a> is just glad it&#8217;s finally published! I must thank them both for putting up with me while I&#8217;ve struggled through this. The next one will be easier! I have to thank <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a>, <a href=\"http://boren.nu/\">Ryan</a>, and the rest of the WordPress community, without whom I would have had nothing to write about!\n</p>\";}i:39;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:65:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Yahoo YPN, Chitika, Adsense Preview Tool\";s:4:\"guid\";s:92:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/22/yahoo-ypn-chitika-adsense-preview-tool/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=537\";s:11:\"description\";s:505:\"<p><a href=\"http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/12/yahoo-ypn-chitika-adsense-preview-tool.html\">Yahoo YPN, Chitika, Adsense Preview Tool</a>: Preview all your ads in one location with Firefox and/or IE.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/adsense+preview\" rel=\"tag\">adsense preview</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/chitika+preview\" rel=\"tag\">chitika preview</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ypn+preview\" rel=\"tag\">ypn preview</a></span>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:42:29 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:505:\"<p><a href=\"http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/12/yahoo-ypn-chitika-adsense-preview-tool.html\">Yahoo YPN, Chitika, Adsense Preview Tool</a>: Preview all your ads in one location with Firefox and/or IE.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/adsense+preview\" rel=\"tag\">adsense preview</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/chitika+preview\" rel=\"tag\">chitika preview</a> <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/ypn+preview\" rel=\"tag\">ypn preview</a></span>\";}i:40;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.0 Release on December 26\";s:4:\"guid\";s:77:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/21/wordpress-20-release-on-december-26\";s:4:\"link\";s:77:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/21/wordpress-20-release-on-december-26\";s:11:\"description\";s:324:\"<p>\nIn response to concerns about availability of support over the Christmas holiday, the release of WordPress 2.0 has been delayed until December 26. This will allow all the fine helpers who answer questions in the forums and on IRC to enjoy the holiday without feeling that they need to rush back to assist upgraders.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:09:39 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:324:\"<p>\nIn response to concerns about availability of support over the Christmas holiday, the release of WordPress 2.0 has been delayed until December 26. This will allow all the fine helpers who answer questions in the forums and on IRC to enjoy the holiday without feeling that they need to rush back to assist upgraders.\n</p>\";}i:41;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:50:\"Dougal Campbell: Yahoo! Web Hosting adds WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=691\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/20/yahoo-web-hosting-adds-wordpress\";s:11:\"description\";s:432:\"<p>\nDouble Yow! Another announcement from <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a>: <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">Yahoo! Web Hosting has added WordPress to their offerings</a>. And as an added bonus, they <a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/yodel-if-you-hate-spam/\">automatically enable the Akismet plugin</a>, which is going to add a wealth of data to that service\'s spam filters.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:00:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:432:\"<p>\nDouble Yow! Another announcement from <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a>: <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">Yahoo! Web Hosting has added WordPress to their offerings</a>. And as an added bonus, they <a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/yodel-if-you-hate-spam/\">automatically enable the Akismet plugin</a>, which is going to add a wealth of data to that service\'s spam filters.\n</p>\";}i:42;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"Dougal Campbell: WordPress 2.0 Release imminent\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=690\";s:4:\"link\";s:71:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/19/wordpress-20-release-imminent\";s:11:\"description\";s:2468:\"<p>\nJust three hours ago, <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a> posted  this <a href=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-December/003482.html\">on the wordpress-hackers mailing list</a>:\n</p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-December/003482.html\">\n<p><b>Subject:</b> [wp-hackers] 2.0 Release</p>\n<p>\nWednesday or Thursday, depending on the phase of the moon.\n</p>\n<p>\nNow would be a great time to start making sure your themes and plugins work with the new version, and post to hackers if you need any help updating them. \n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\nYow! On the one hand, I\'m really excited about this release. A lot of the changes are under the hood, with tons of new <acronym title=\"Application Interface\"><span class=\"caps\">API</span></acronym> hooks, a new object cache system, new user \"roles and capabilities\" security model, fixes and code refactoring. The major immediate change that most users will see is the new <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\"><span class=\"caps\">WYSIWYG</span></acronym> post editor. Personally, though, I\'ll turn that off, because I prefer crafting the xhtml for my posts by hand. \n</p>\n<p>\nThe new <acronym title=\"Application Interface\"><span class=\"caps\">API</span></acronym> hooks are going to enable a whole new class of themes for WordPress which have built-in customization options. An early example is Michael Heilemann\'s <a href=\"http://binarybonsai.com/k2\">K2</a> (which is actually built off of WordPress 1.5, but will take advantage of 2.0 features soon).\n</p>\n<p>\nOn the other hand, as you might infer from the \'2.0\' version number, this is a major change release. You may very well run into \'issues\' (as we in the software development community like to politely call them) when upgrading from older versions of WordPress. I <strong>strongly</strong> suggest that anyone who is upgrading an older version of WordPress to 2.0 should backup <em>everything</em>. Backup your entire existing wordpress directory and your database tables. This is particularly true if you rely on third-party themes or plugins. Most people will probably upgrade without incident. For for those (hopefully) few who run into problems, a backup is going to be essential.\n</p>\n<p>\nThat said, it looks like it could be a very Merry Christmas indeed for us WordPress users <img src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> \n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:00:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:2468:\"<p>\nJust three hours ago, <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a> posted  this <a href=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-December/003482.html\">on the wordpress-hackers mailing list</a>:\n</p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-December/003482.html\">\n<p><b>Subject:</b> [wp-hackers] 2.0 Release</p>\n<p>\nWednesday or Thursday, depending on the phase of the moon.\n</p>\n<p>\nNow would be a great time to start making sure your themes and plugins work with the new version, and post to hackers if you need any help updating them. \n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\nYow! On the one hand, I\'m really excited about this release. A lot of the changes are under the hood, with tons of new <acronym title=\"Application Interface\"><span class=\"caps\">API</span></acronym> hooks, a new object cache system, new user \"roles and capabilities\" security model, fixes and code refactoring. The major immediate change that most users will see is the new <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\"><span class=\"caps\">WYSIWYG</span></acronym> post editor. Personally, though, I\'ll turn that off, because I prefer crafting the xhtml for my posts by hand. \n</p>\n<p>\nThe new <acronym title=\"Application Interface\"><span class=\"caps\">API</span></acronym> hooks are going to enable a whole new class of themes for WordPress which have built-in customization options. An early example is Michael Heilemann\'s <a href=\"http://binarybonsai.com/k2\">K2</a> (which is actually built off of WordPress 1.5, but will take advantage of 2.0 features soon).\n</p>\n<p>\nOn the other hand, as you might infer from the \'2.0\' version number, this is a major change release. You may very well run into \'issues\' (as we in the software development community like to politely call them) when upgrading from older versions of WordPress. I <strong>strongly</strong> suggest that anyone who is upgrading an older version of WordPress to 2.0 should backup <em>everything</em>. Backup your entire existing wordpress directory and your database tables. This is particularly true if you rely on third-party themes or plugins. Most people will probably upgrade without incident. For for those (hopefully) few who run into problems, a backup is going to be essential.\n</p>\n<p>\nThat said, it looks like it could be a very Merry Christmas indeed for us WordPress users <img src=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> \n</p>\";}i:43;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:35:\"Dougal Campbell: Poisoning the well\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=689\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/06/poisoning-the-well\";s:11:\"description\";s:3075:\"<p>\nOverall, the volume of spam attempts on my server have been down lately. Oh, I still get a steady stream, I delete over 100 comment spams (caught by my filters) each day. But I\'ve seen fewer of the massive, server-squashing spam runs that hammer my web service with too many simultaneous connections, blocking out legitimate users.\n</p>\n<p>\nOn the other hand, I\'m seeing a lot more attempts by spammers to <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well\">poison the well</a>. What I mean by that is that they are submitting bogus comments, full of non-spammy (but more-or-less random) content, and links to legitimate web sites. For example:\n</p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Name:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.osnews.com/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Adam Baumann</a></p>\n\n	<p>Hi. Just letting you know that I enjoyed your site. when Soldier Double Game Lose: <a href=\"http://www.newscorp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newscorp.com/</a> , to Bet Opponents you should be very Faithful <a href=\"http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Big Gnome becomes Industrious Plane in final</a> , Superb Opponents becomes Superb Soldier in final <a href=\"http://gaim.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Faithful is feature of White Circle</a>\n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\nThe comment is obviously gibberish, right? And the links are all to perfectly normal -- in fact, popular -- sites. You might wonder why a spammer would bother posting it. The idea is to poison the well of any sites which use <a href=\"http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html\">Bayesian techniques</a> to classify content as spam or not. By tricking sites into classifying \"good\" content as \"spam\", they (theoretically) can reduce the effectiveness of the spam filters.\n</p>\n<p>\nWith enough poisoning, your spam filter may start getting <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive#False_positives_and_spam\">false-positives</a>, which are legitimate messages that have incorrectly been tagged as spam. And if you get enough false-positives, you\'ll lose faith in your spam filter and disable it. At least, that\'s what the spammers are trying to accomplish.\n</p>\n<p>\nWill their plan work? I guess that depends on your particular spam filters. I\'m betting that systems like <a href=\"http://akismet.com/\">Akismet</a>, which collect data from a wide variety of sources, will probably be able to defend against Bayes poisoning. How? Well, there\'s this thing called an IP address. Even though the spammers submit their garbage via an army of anonymous proxy servers and <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_computers\">zombie machines</a>, they still only have access to a finite number of hosts, a limited number of IP addresses. It won\'t take long for those IPs to be statistically classified as sources of spam. An IP like <code>221.3.235.96</code> will be flagged as a spam indicator far sooner than the words \"Industrious\" and \"Soldier\".\n</p>\n<p>\nSo once again I say, <a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/09/16/dear-spammers\">thank you, spammers</a>. We\'re learning more about you every day.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:00:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:3075:\"<p>\nOverall, the volume of spam attempts on my server have been down lately. Oh, I still get a steady stream, I delete over 100 comment spams (caught by my filters) each day. But I\'ve seen fewer of the massive, server-squashing spam runs that hammer my web service with too many simultaneous connections, blocking out legitimate users.\n</p>\n<p>\nOn the other hand, I\'m seeing a lot more attempts by spammers to <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well\">poison the well</a>. What I mean by that is that they are submitting bogus comments, full of non-spammy (but more-or-less random) content, and links to legitimate web sites. For example:\n</p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Name:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.osnews.com/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Adam Baumann</a></p>\n\n	<p>Hi. Just letting you know that I enjoyed your site. when Soldier Double Game Lose: <a href=\"http://www.newscorp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newscorp.com/</a> , to Bet Opponents you should be very Faithful <a href=\"http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Big Gnome becomes Industrious Plane in final</a> , Superb Opponents becomes Superb Soldier in final <a href=\"http://gaim.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Faithful is feature of White Circle</a>\n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\nThe comment is obviously gibberish, right? And the links are all to perfectly normal -- in fact, popular -- sites. You might wonder why a spammer would bother posting it. The idea is to poison the well of any sites which use <a href=\"http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html\">Bayesian techniques</a> to classify content as spam or not. By tricking sites into classifying \"good\" content as \"spam\", they (theoretically) can reduce the effectiveness of the spam filters.\n</p>\n<p>\nWith enough poisoning, your spam filter may start getting <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive#False_positives_and_spam\">false-positives</a>, which are legitimate messages that have incorrectly been tagged as spam. And if you get enough false-positives, you\'ll lose faith in your spam filter and disable it. At least, that\'s what the spammers are trying to accomplish.\n</p>\n<p>\nWill their plan work? I guess that depends on your particular spam filters. I\'m betting that systems like <a href=\"http://akismet.com/\">Akismet</a>, which collect data from a wide variety of sources, will probably be able to defend against Bayes poisoning. How? Well, there\'s this thing called an IP address. Even though the spammers submit their garbage via an army of anonymous proxy servers and <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_computers\">zombie machines</a>, they still only have access to a finite number of hosts, a limited number of IP addresses. It won\'t take long for those IPs to be statistically classified as sources of spam. An IP like <code>221.3.235.96</code> will be flagged as a spam indicator far sooner than the words \"Industrious\" and \"Soldier\".\n</p>\n<p>\nSo once again I say, <a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/09/16/dear-spammers\">thank you, spammers</a>. We\'re learning more about you every day.\n</p>\";}i:44;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"Dougal Campbell: The State of FeedLounge\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=688\";s:4:\"link\";s:65:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/05/the-state-of-feedlounge\";s:11:\"description\";s:1368:\"<p>\n<a href=\"http://alexking.org/blog/\">Alex</a> has posted a moderately detailed article explaining <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/12/05/state-of-feedlounge/\">The State of FeedLounge</a>. For any newcomers who don\'t know what <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/\">FeedLounge</a> is, it\'s a web based feed aggregator, not unlike BlogLines. But FeedLounge is a next-generation web service that looks and acts more like a desktop application than a web site.\n</p>\n<p>\nI\'m one of the lucky <a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/06/10/feedlounge\">alpha testers</a> who have had access for the last six months. I committed to using FeedLounge as my only feed reader, dumping SharpReader and the <acronym title=\"Rich Site Summary\"><span class=\"caps\">RSS</span></acronym> capabilities of Thunderbird. I\'ve watched FeedLounge go through some rough spots, and it always came back better than before. Alex and <a href=\"http://dotnot.org/blog/\">Scott</a> have done an outstanding job with everything from the great AJAXian user interface to the invisible backend. When the time comes, if the price is right, I\'m going to be a paying customer.\n</p>\n<p>\nBut you don\'t care about all that, do you? What good is it to read about a service that you don\'t have access to? All you care about is knowing that FeedLounge will be open for public beta on January 16, 2006. \n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:00:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1368:\"<p>\n<a href=\"http://alexking.org/blog/\">Alex</a> has posted a moderately detailed article explaining <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/12/05/state-of-feedlounge/\">The State of FeedLounge</a>. For any newcomers who don\'t know what <a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/\">FeedLounge</a> is, it\'s a web based feed aggregator, not unlike BlogLines. But FeedLounge is a next-generation web service that looks and acts more like a desktop application than a web site.\n</p>\n<p>\nI\'m one of the lucky <a href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/06/10/feedlounge\">alpha testers</a> who have had access for the last six months. I committed to using FeedLounge as my only feed reader, dumping SharpReader and the <acronym title=\"Rich Site Summary\"><span class=\"caps\">RSS</span></acronym> capabilities of Thunderbird. I\'ve watched FeedLounge go through some rough spots, and it always came back better than before. Alex and <a href=\"http://dotnot.org/blog/\">Scott</a> have done an outstanding job with everything from the great AJAXian user interface to the invisible backend. When the time comes, if the price is right, I\'m going to be a paying customer.\n</p>\n<p>\nBut you don\'t care about all that, do you? What good is it to read about a service that you don\'t have access to? All you care about is knowing that FeedLounge will be open for public beta on January 16, 2006. \n</p>\";}i:45;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"Dougal Campbell: Breaking the silence\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=685\";s:4:\"link\";s:62:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/11/23/breaking-the-silence\";s:11:\"description\";s:1735:\"<p>\nBetween projects at work (rolling out the largest indoor WiFi network in the world at a certain international airport near Atlanta) and projects at home (building more IKEA furniture -- bed, dresser, chest, entertainment center, end tables, ottomans; doing what I can to help Suze prepare for Thanksgiving), I haven\'t had much time for posting lately. But I\'m making a minute to come up for a quick breath and note some of the things that have caught my attention lately:\n</p>\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2005-November/000726.html\">WordPress 2.0 beta</a> (what, you thought it was version 1.6? Ha!)</li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/11/13/alpha-5-update/\">Feedlounge alpha 5</a> (faster, more new features)</li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/11/20/switched-to-postgresql/\">Feedlounge switches from MySQL to PostgreSQL</a></li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.americanedit.net/\">American Edit</a> (Dean Gray does mashups of songs from Green Day\'s \"American Idiot\") <ins datetime=\"2005-11-30T18:54:54+00:00\">[<b>Update Nov. 30:</b> As I feared, American Edit has been taken offline due to legal threats from Warner Brothers. However, keep an eye out for <a href=\"http://gray.alt.fm/\">Gray Day</a>, on December 13...]</ins></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.wayfaring.com/\">Wayfaring</a></li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.hedonistica.com/media.php?path=http://70.85.89.52/~hedonist/videos/christmas_house.wmv\">Best. Christmas lights. Evar.</a></li>\n\n</ul>\n<p>\nAnd of course, there are the big stories that I won\'t bother linking to, because you can hardly visit a tech/link site without bumping into them: Google Base, Sony Rootkit DRM, Tivo video on iPod and PSP, etc.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:00:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1735:\"<p>\nBetween projects at work (rolling out the largest indoor WiFi network in the world at a certain international airport near Atlanta) and projects at home (building more IKEA furniture -- bed, dresser, chest, entertainment center, end tables, ottomans; doing what I can to help Suze prepare for Thanksgiving), I haven\'t had much time for posting lately. But I\'m making a minute to come up for a quick breath and note some of the things that have caught my attention lately:\n</p>\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2005-November/000726.html\">WordPress 2.0 beta</a> (what, you thought it was version 1.6? Ha!)</li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/11/13/alpha-5-update/\">Feedlounge alpha 5</a> (faster, more new features)</li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://feedlounge.com/blog/2005/11/20/switched-to-postgresql/\">Feedlounge switches from MySQL to PostgreSQL</a></li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.americanedit.net/\">American Edit</a> (Dean Gray does mashups of songs from Green Day\'s \"American Idiot\") <ins datetime=\"2005-11-30T18:54:54+00:00\">[<b>Update Nov. 30:</b> As I feared, American Edit has been taken offline due to legal threats from Warner Brothers. However, keep an eye out for <a href=\"http://gray.alt.fm/\">Gray Day</a>, on December 13...]</ins></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.wayfaring.com/\">Wayfaring</a></li>\n\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.hedonistica.com/media.php?path=http://70.85.89.52/~hedonist/videos/christmas_house.wmv\">Best. Christmas lights. Evar.</a></li>\n\n</ul>\n<p>\nAnd of course, there are the big stories that I won\'t bother linking to, because you can hardly visit a tech/link site without bumping into them: Google Base, Sony Rootkit DRM, Tivo video on iPod and PSP, etc.\n</p>\";}i:46;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"Dougal Campbell: Blog Software Smackdown\";s:4:\"guid\";s:32:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=684\";s:4:\"link\";s:65:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/11/15/blog-software-smackdown\";s:11:\"description\";s:1027:\"<p>\nThanks to my friend Mike, who pointed out the <a href=\"http://www.sitepoint.com/article/blog-software-smackdown-review\">Blog Software Smackdown</a> article over on SitePoint. Author Vinnie Garcia compares the \"big three\" of blogging software: <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.org/\">Movable Type</a>, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.textpattern.com/\">Textpattern</a>. He gives a good overview of each, discusses their strengths and possible pitfalls, and provides links to example sites for each.\n</p>\n<p>\nIn the final analysis, he compares the systems in 9 areas, grading them on a five point scale. If you average the scores, the final tally is:\n</p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Movable Type</dt><dd>3.72</dd>\n<dt>Textpattern</dt><dd>3.88</dd>\n<dt>WordPress</dt><dd>4.38</dd>\n</dl>\n<p>\nOf course, that\'s pretty subjective. What really matters is the feature set that\'s important to <em>you</em>, and which tool addresses them in the best way. But it\'s good to see that WP shines in this comparison.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:00:05 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1027:\"<p>\nThanks to my friend Mike, who pointed out the <a href=\"http://www.sitepoint.com/article/blog-software-smackdown-review\">Blog Software Smackdown</a> article over on SitePoint. Author Vinnie Garcia compares the \"big three\" of blogging software: <a href=\"http://www.movabletype.org/\">Movable Type</a>, <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.textpattern.com/\">Textpattern</a>. He gives a good overview of each, discusses their strengths and possible pitfalls, and provides links to example sites for each.\n</p>\n<p>\nIn the final analysis, he compares the systems in 9 areas, grading them on a five point scale. If you average the scores, the final tally is:\n</p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Movable Type</dt><dd>3.72</dd>\n<dt>Textpattern</dt><dd>3.88</dd>\n<dt>WordPress</dt><dd>4.38</dd>\n</dl>\n<p>\nOf course, that\'s pretty subjective. What really matters is the feature set that\'s important to <em>you</em>, and which tool addresses them in the best way. But it\'s good to see that WP shines in this comparison.\n</p>\";}i:47;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"Dougal Campbell: Upgraded\";s:4:\"guid\";s:52:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/21/upgraded-2\";s:4:\"link\";s:52:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/21/upgraded-2\";s:11:\"description\";s:899:\"<p>\nI went ahead and took the plunge: this site is now running WordPress 2.0 RC3. Everything seems to be working fine so far, despite some of the ugly hacks I have in my home-grown \"Rock\'em Sock\'em Robots\" theme. I\'m not using the new <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\"><span class=\"caps\">WYSIWYG</span></acronym> editor, as I prefer to write my post markup by hand. And even though the new version lets you add categories on-the-fly, I\'m still using the Tags4WP plugin, because it will auto-complete category names for me as I type. And likewise, I\'ll probably continue to use the <a href=\"http://www.bistr-o-mathik.org/code/wordpress-plugins/\">Image Browser</a> plugin, because I don\'t like how the built-in media manager stores images in subfolders by date. What I probably need to do is create a plugin to customize the upload location (using the <code>upload_dir</code> filter).\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:37:07 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:899:\"<p>\nI went ahead and took the plunge: this site is now running WordPress 2.0 RC3. Everything seems to be working fine so far, despite some of the ugly hacks I have in my home-grown \"Rock\'em Sock\'em Robots\" theme. I\'m not using the new <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\"><span class=\"caps\">WYSIWYG</span></acronym> editor, as I prefer to write my post markup by hand. And even though the new version lets you add categories on-the-fly, I\'m still using the Tags4WP plugin, because it will auto-complete category names for me as I type. And likewise, I\'ll probably continue to use the <a href=\"http://www.bistr-o-mathik.org/code/wordpress-plugins/\">Image Browser</a> plugin, because I don\'t like how the built-in media manager stores images in subfolders by date. What I probably need to do is create a plugin to customize the upload location (using the <code>upload_dir</code> filter).\n</p>\";}i:48;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:54:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Mullenweg launches Automattic\";s:4:\"guid\";s:83:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/21/mullenweg-launches-automattic/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=536\";s:11:\"description\";s:664:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/12/20/mullenweg_launches_automattic_to_expand_wordpress_scores_yahoo_too.html\">Mullenweg launches Automattic</a>: There are times in ones&#8217; life when they kick themselves for not having done something that was staring them in the face, feel like they have let themselves down but are still incerdibly happy for the way the cookie crumbled. This happens to be one such situation for me. Congratulations Matt! This is well deserved and I laud you (and your cohorts) and your efforts.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/automattic\" rel=\"tag\">automattic</a>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:00:20 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:664:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/12/20/mullenweg_launches_automattic_to_expand_wordpress_scores_yahoo_too.html\">Mullenweg launches Automattic</a>: There are times in ones&#8217; life when they kick themselves for not having done something that was staring them in the face, feel like they have let themselves down but are still incerdibly happy for the way the cookie crumbled. This happens to be one such situation for me. Congratulations Matt! This is well deserved and I laud you (and your cohorts) and your efforts.</p>\n<span class=\"technoratitags\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/tag/automattic\" rel=\"tag\">automattic</a>\";}i:49;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:57:\"Weblog Tools Collection: Moving from TypePad to WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:86:\"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/12/21/moving-from-typepad-to-wordpress/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP?m=534\";s:11:\"description\";s:301:\"<p><a href=\"http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2005/12/moving_from_typ.html\">Moving from TypePad to WordPress</a>: Detailed steps on how to manually make the move without losing anythins of consequence. Especially relevant if you are moving to the new Yahoo! Hosting service (congrats Matt!)\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:11:07 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:301:\"<p><a href=\"http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2005/12/moving_from_typ.html\">Moving from TypePad to WordPress</a>: Detailed steps on how to manually make the move without losing anythins of consequence. Especially relevant if you are moving to the new Yahoo! Hosting service (congrats Matt!)\n</p>\";}i:50;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:30:\"Donncha: WordPress.com Goodies\";s:4:\"guid\";s:59:\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2005/12/21/wordpresscom-goodies/\";s:4:\"link\";s:59:\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2005/12/21/wordpresscom-goodies/\";s:11:\"description\";s:1512:\"<p>Yesterday it was <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">announced</a> that Yahoo will <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://wordpress.org/hosting/\">bundle</a> WordPress right alongside Movable Type on their website! Matt and the rest of us were <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/wp-on-yahoo/\">keeping mum</a> on everything until yesterday, but now it&#8217;s out I can blog this. Matt has <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/on-automattic-launch/\">links</a> to online coverage of the event.<br />\nMe? I think it&#8217;s great, the best blogging platform just got a huge boost from a very major player on the Internet! Maybe when I talk to people about blogs in the future they&#8217;ll know what I&#8217;m talking about!</p>\n	<p>The new <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://automattic.com/\">Automattic</a> website launched yesterday too. There&#8217;s a little blurb about me on the About page, although I do not drink Murphys except for that time years ago when I drank a pint with a shot of Baileys to help it go down.. that was interesting.</p>\n	<p>In other news, <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://performancing.com/firefox\">Performancing for Firefox</a> came out. It&#8217;s a blog editor extension for Firefox that looks pretty cool. Unfortunately I&#8217;m not using Firefox 1.5 yet so I can&#8217;t try it out.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:16:22 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:1512:\"<p>Yesterday it was <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">announced</a> that Yahoo will <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://wordpress.org/hosting/\">bundle</a> WordPress right alongside Movable Type on their website! Matt and the rest of us were <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/wp-on-yahoo/\">keeping mum</a> on everything until yesterday, but now it&#8217;s out I can blog this. Matt has <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/on-automattic-launch/\">links</a> to online coverage of the event.<br />\nMe? I think it&#8217;s great, the best blogging platform just got a huge boost from a very major player on the Internet! Maybe when I talk to people about blogs in the future they&#8217;ll know what I&#8217;m talking about!</p>\n	<p>The new <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://automattic.com/\">Automattic</a> website launched yesterday too. There&#8217;s a little blurb about me on the About page, although I do not drink Murphys except for that time years ago when I drank a pint with a shot of Baileys to help it go down.. that was interesting.</p>\n	<p>In other news, <a href=\"http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://performancing.com/firefox\">Performancing for Firefox</a> came out. It&#8217;s a blog editor extension for Firefox that looks pretty cool. Unfortunately I&#8217;m not using Firefox 1.5 yet so I can&#8217;t try it out.\n</p>\";}i:51;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"Matt: On Automattic Launch\";s:4:\"guid\";s:53:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/on-automattic-launch/\";s:4:\"link\";s:53:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/on-automattic-launch/\";s:11:\"description\";s:657:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/12/20/mullenweg_launches_automattic_to_expand_wordpress_scores_yahoo_too.html\">SiliconBeat has a good article on the launch of Automattic and the Yahoo deal</a>. We also <a href=\"http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/20/HNyahoowordpress_1.html\">ended up in Infoworld</a>. <a href=\"http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2005/12/20/wordpress-yahoo/\">Scott Gatz wrote a bit about the Yahoo deal</a>, saying &#8220;The Hosting team also did a similar deal with Moveable Type last week, so if you prefer that, its just as easy. (although I personally prefer the simplicity and extensibility of WordPress).&#8221;\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:04:13 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:657:\"<p><a href=\"http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/12/20/mullenweg_launches_automattic_to_expand_wordpress_scores_yahoo_too.html\">SiliconBeat has a good article on the launch of Automattic and the Yahoo deal</a>. We also <a href=\"http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/20/HNyahoowordpress_1.html\">ended up in Infoworld</a>. <a href=\"http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2005/12/20/wordpress-yahoo/\">Scott Gatz wrote a bit about the Yahoo deal</a>, saying &#8220;The Hosting team also did a similar deal with Moveable Type last week, so if you prefer that, its just as easy. (although I personally prefer the simplicity and extensibility of WordPress).&#8221;\n</p>\";}i:52;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:18:\"Matt: Wireless BBQ\";s:4:\"guid\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/wireless-bbq/\";s:4:\"link\";s:45:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/wireless-bbq/\";s:11:\"description\";s:350:\"<p>I&#8217;m up in Austin to work with <a href=\"http://skeltoac.com/\">Andy</a> for a few days on the <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/blog/2005/12/19/blog-stats-update/\">new stats system for WP.com</a>. He found this BBQ place (Pokey Joe&#8217;s) that offers free wifi with their brisket, and I think I&#8217;m in heaven. What more could you want?!\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:00:46 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:350:\"<p>I&#8217;m up in Austin to work with <a href=\"http://skeltoac.com/\">Andy</a> for a few days on the <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/blog/2005/12/19/blog-stats-update/\">new stats system for WP.com</a>. He found this BBQ place (Pokey Joe&#8217;s) that offers free wifi with their brisket, and I think I&#8217;m in heaven. What more could you want?!\n</p>\";}i:53;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:50:\"Dougal Campbell: Yahoo! Web Hosting adds WordPress\";s:4:\"guid\";s:74:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/20/yahoo-web-hosting-adds-wordpress\";s:4:\"link\";s:74:\"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/20/yahoo-web-hosting-adds-wordpress\";s:11:\"description\";s:432:\"<p>\nDouble Yow! Another announcement from <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a>: <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">Yahoo! Web Hosting has added WordPress to their offerings</a>. And as an added bonus, they <a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/yodel-if-you-hate-spam/\">automatically enable the Akismet plugin</a>, which is going to add a wealth of data to that service\'s spam filters.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:26:45 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:432:\"<p>\nDouble Yow! Another announcement from <a href=\"http://photomatt.net/\">Matt</a>: <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">Yahoo! Web Hosting has added WordPress to their offerings</a>. And as an added bonus, they <a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/yodel-if-you-hate-spam/\">automatically enable the Akismet plugin</a>, which is going to add a wealth of data to that service\'s spam filters.\n</p>\";}i:54;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:17:\"Matt: WP on Yahoo\";s:4:\"guid\";s:44:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/wp-on-yahoo/\";s:4:\"link\";s:44:\"http://photomatt.net/2005/12/20/wp-on-yahoo/\";s:11:\"description\";s:663:\"<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">Check out the new bundling of WordPress with Yahoo Hosting</a>, which is why I was biting my tongue so much last week. <img src=\"http://photomatt.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" />  We&#8217;re sitting next to Movable Type on their blog page, but I&#8217;m completely comfortable with new users trying out both and making their decision from there. (I often recommend it.) The other part of why this is interesting is the Akismet angle, <a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/yodel-if-you-hate-spam/\">which I wrote more about here</a>.\n</p>\";s:7:\"pubdate\";s:31:\"Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:09:25 +0000\";s:7:\"summary\";s:663:\"<p><a href=\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\">Check out the new bundling of WordPress with Yahoo Hosting</a>, which is why I was biting my tongue so much last week. <img src=\"http://photomatt.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" />  We&#8217;re sitting next to Movable Type on their blog page, but I&#8217;m completely comfortable with new users trying out both and making their decision from there. (I often recommend it.) The other part of why this is interesting is the Akismet angle, <a href=\"http://akismet.com/blog/2005/12/yodel-if-you-hate-spam/\">which I wrote more about here</a>.\n</p>\";}i:55;a:6:{s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"Dev Blog: WordPress on Yahoo\";s:4:\"guid\";s:60:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\";s:4:\"link\";s:60:\"http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-on-yahoo/\";s:11:\"description\";s:2568:\"<p>As many of you know, we&#8217;re constantly tweaking and updating our <a href=\"http://wordpress.org/hosting/\">web hosting page</a> based on feedback we get from you. Well today we&#8217;re very excited to announce we&#8217;re adding a new host to the page with a familiar name - <a href=\"http://yahoo.com/\">Yahoo!</a> We&#8217;ve been working with the Yahoo Small Business team to create a solution that gives professional bloggers exactly what they want from their hosting providers.</p>\n<p>When we started, Yahoo asked &#8220;What would the perfect blog host do?&#8221; and their team has been really amazing in executing on a really kick-ass platform for serious bloggers. It took a little while, but slow cooking makes good eating. (Like WordPress 2.0!)</p>\n<p>We think the hosting is good for all the baseline features you should expect &#8212; tons of storage, bandwidth, Yahoo reliability, etc. (You probably heard all about that in their <a href=\"http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/12/12/six_aparts_scores_deal_with_yahoo.html\">Movable Type announcement last week</a>.) However we think they&#8217;re worth featuring because of three key things:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>With just a few clicks, <a href=\"http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-1876573-10406412\">Yahoo Web Hosting will install WordPress 2.0 complete with a few choice plugins and themes</a>. Setup one blog or two dozen in seconds.</li>\n<li><strong>They will also upgrade your WordPress </strong>when a new stable release or update is available, meaning it is a zero-maintenance solution on par with <a href=\"http://wordpress.com/\">WordPress.com</a>.</li>\n<li>Finally, every Yahoo Hosting customer gets a free <a href=\"http://akismet.com/\">Pro-Blogger Akismet license</a> ($5/mo value) and Akismet is auto-enabled on new installations, meaning that spam is less of an issue on Yahoo WordPress blogs.  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So if you\'re someone who thinks they might be able to mooch free or cheap web hosting off of me, feel free to give me a shout.','So it\'s a whole new world.',0,'','publish','open','open','','so-its-a-whole-new-world','','','2005-08-20 22:11:34','2005-08-21 02:11:34','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=3',0),(4,2,'2005-08-23 21:17:12','2005-08-24 01:17:12','It would appear that smtose.org is back online.  However, it has been officially end-of-lifed and everyone needs to run out of there like their heads were on fire.  Well, not quite.  I\'m going to redirect your pages here, so that you can know to contact me.  I\'m going to lazily attempt to backup your data, too.\r\n\r\nOnce you\'re over here on Stone Code, you can expect stability and predictability.  It will be sad to leave the little web host that just won\'t die, but it\'s well worth it to be on a service where everything is actually working.\r\n\r\nI have my web standards solutions book in hand, so the Stone Code Productions website will begin it\'s life tonight.  Whether or not I link it to stonecode.org before it\'s done remains to be seen, but expect something far snazzier than any website I\'ve ever made.\r\n\r\nIn developmental news, I am currently working on a bunch of hellish reports for B-Tree Technologies, the company which I do work for New Haven Dental Group under.  These reports have inspired me to make a generalized reporting and templating system, which I call <a href=\"http://ruport.rubyforge.org\">Ruport.</a>  Mark your calanders, for the first release of this system is set for this Sunday. (2005-08-28)\r\n\r\nAnyway, I\'m off to do some work on the website.  Please bear with me as the dust rises and then finally clears.','Back from the briny deep.',0,'','publish','open','open','','back-from-the-briny-deep','','','2005-08-23 21:22:54','2005-08-24 01:22:54','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=4',0),(5,2,'2005-08-24 00:00:12','2005-08-24 04:00:12','I\'m able to use ruby on this brand spankin\' new host, so I think that my site will be entirely run via ERb.  My basic idea is to have a template which covers the entire website so it has a consistant look and feel and just use a simple handler that will fill in the text and graphics specific to each page.\r\n\r\nso stonecode.org/neatorubyapp.cgi?page=AboutUs would grab some specific info for the about us page and fire it back into the template.  I\'ll post the sourcecode for it when I\'m done.\r\n\r\nBye bye Mozilla Composer.  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Nevertheless, here is the whimsical and wonderful Statement of Purpose from the little code house that could.\r\n\r\n------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nWhat is Stone Code?\r\n\r\nFrom ancient times to the present, Stone has represented the\r\neverlasting.  Countless companies have tried to solidify their\r\nfortitude through some reference or another to rocks of some variety.\r\nHowever, there is a deeper meaning than that of raw and uncut\r\nstrength.  Some of the most well known structures in the world have\r\nbeen carved from the very foundation that makes up our earth.  When we\r\nthink of stone, we think of the wonders of the parthenon, the mystical\r\nappeal of legendary stone henge, the central figures of the Zen\r\ngardens of Japan, and the very hearth of the land we stand on.\r\nStrength to carry on throughout the ages, with a certain beauty that\r\ncan only be forged by true artisans, we feel that this concept is a\r\nperfect metaphor for our design goals.\r\n\r\nOf course, Stone is only half of the phrase we have coined for\r\nourselves.  The word \'code\' can be quite ambiguous, and it is our goal\r\nas professionals to guide you through the complexity of the world of\r\nprogramming with clarity and satisfaction.  The artisans of Stone Code\r\nProductions have acquired a true relationship with the code they have\r\nproduced, and are capable of understanding and improving the code of\r\nothers when the need arises.  We invite you to share with us your\r\nvision, so that we may provide durable and beautiful solutions for\r\nyou.\r\n\r\nWhen our conception of Stone and Code merge together, we acquire Stone\r\nCode.   The work produced is inherently beautiful because our design\r\nphilosophy centers on form equally as it does on functionality.\r\nBecause our developers place so much pride in their work, it seems\r\nonly natural that it should be free.  Do not be alarmed that we will\r\nnot provide work designed for commercial gain, because that is\r\ncertainly not the case.  Our work is free in the sense of \"Free\r\nSpeech\", not necessarily \"Free Beer\".  We offer our original work\r\nunder the GNU General Public License or any license which is compliant\r\nwith it.  Stone Code Productions has it\'s roots in the Free Software\r\ncommunity, and thus will not produce new proprietary software\r\nprojects.  However, our skilled team is well versed in the commercial\r\naspects of Free Software, and can aid you and your company to find\r\nprofitable ways to produce and make use of Free Software.\r\n\r\nWe also provide consulting and services to those who are currently\r\nusing or developing proprietary software.  We are always happy to help\r\nanyone who has a problem that needs solving.  However, we limit\r\nourself to testing, repairing, and maintaining software that is\r\nnon-free due to our philosophy.  Therefore if you would like to extend\r\nfunctionality of a system, it would be necessary to find a way to do\r\nthis while preserving the new software\'s freedom.  Some may find this\r\na bit strange at first, but we encourage you to talk with us and\r\ndiscuss your options so that we may show you the many benefits Free\r\nSoftware can offer.\r\n\r\nIt is and always will be our goal to give back to the community which\r\nhas provided so much for us.  Therefore, Stone Code Productions will\r\nalways provide a portion of it\'s profits to the appropriate\r\ndevelopment groups that have built the tools we use, as well as the\r\norganizations which protect their freedoms.  This means that any\r\nclient who does business with our company will be supporting the\r\ncommunity through their business with Stone Code, furthering the\r\nproliferation of software freedom and ensuring that quality software\r\nwill continue to be produced by volunteers and skilled developers\r\nworld wide.\r\n\r\nThrough an active and personalized development process, the artisans\r\nof Stone Code will produce the quality software you need without\r\ncausing unnecessary complications or confusion that are all too common\r\nin the technology field.  The result will be something beautiful and\r\nlasting which will bring freedom to both your company and the\r\ncommunity as a whole.  Stone Code Productions treats each new project\r\nas a unique venture and proudly adapts to the clients needs while\r\nstill providing a solid service.  If you have any software development\r\nor technology work that is in need of an extra hand, feel free to\r\ncontact us at developers@stonecode.org.  We often do volunteer work\r\nfor worthy causes, especially those that center around academic growth\r\nor the development of Free Software, so feel free to contact us and\r\ndescribe your situation and we\'ll do our best to accomodate you.\r\n\r\nStone Code means beauty, clarity, and solidarity.  Let us work on a\r\nproject for you, and these ideals will shine through in the work\r\nproduced.  With beautiful tools, beautiful things can be made.  Let us\r\nprovide you with the tools and you will be one step closer to\r\nproviding whatever product or service you specialize in with greater\r\nefficiency, reliability, and appeal.','Statement of Purpose',0,'','publish','open','open','','statement-of-purpose','','','2005-10-06 20:32:39','2005-10-07 00:32:39','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=6',0),(7,2,'2005-08-30 20:56:30','2005-08-31 00:56:30','Well, after what seemed like an entire summer of hard work, I hastily released Ruport in the worst possible time, the day before I moved back to my University.  Unfortunately, some of the effects of the rush I was in could be seen in the quality of the release materials, not necessarily the code, but the announcement on ruby-talk and some of the documents such as the README.  I did write a nice <a href=\"http://ruport.rubyforge.org/ruport_manual.pdf\">manual</a> that anyone who is remotely interested in the Ruby Reports system should check out.  The code itself is like a newborn baby... it\'s a bundle of hope and possibly joy for some, but it already has poop filled diapers that need changing and is a little irritable because it\'s teething.  Nevertheless, there should be some good things out on the horizon regarding Ruport, so keep your eyes peeled.\r\n\r\nJames and I plan to keep our promise regarding releasing Gambit before the fall.  He thinks the last day of summer is the Autumn Equinox (September 21) whereas I thought that we were implying we\'d have it out before Labor Day (September 5).  Therefore, my part of Gambit will be done by the 5th, and his by latest the 21st.  The release of Gambit should be very exciting, and if anyone wants to see a summary of our codefest this summer, there is a great <a href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/a5bffa04578395e0/8e59ea3a0a984442?lnk=st&q=Gambit+postmortem&rnum=1#8e59ea3a0a984442\">\r\narticle</a> on ruby-talk which James wrote.  You need not be an uber technophile to appreciate this article, surprisingly but of course it does help!\r\n\r\nI will be designing the Stone Code website this week and next.  I will release the source code to the Ruby engine that runs it when it is built.  If anyone hosted here on Stone Code would like me to install it for them when I get it built, just let me know.\r\n\r\nWell, that is the news for now.  Starting tomorrow I have to \'learn\' how to code again.  Stupid school, always getting in the way of my real projects :)  ','Ruport\'s Initial Release',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruports-initial-release','','','2005-09-02 01:09:18','2005-09-02 05:09:18','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=7',0),(8,2,'2005-08-31 18:03:48','2005-08-31 22:03:48','If you read my Statement of Purpose for this new venture I\'ve started, you\'d know that Stone Code Productions plans on making contributions to the community whenever possible.  One great way to do this is through Dreamhost themselves.  They agree to match whatever donations their customers make.  Money is a bit tight currently, but I decided to make Stone Code\'s first contribution.  I donated $10 dollars to Wordpress, the people who build the excellent open source software this weblog runs on.  I also donated $10 to the American Red Cross to help towards the support of those effected by the hurricane that swamped the Gulf Coast.  As of now, I am aware that all of you who are hosted on Stone Code are college students who probably aren\'t in much better of a money situation than me, but if you enjoy the services I\'ve been providing to you for free and would like to help me help the community, you can stop by my apartment with some cash and I\'ll make the donation right there on your behalf (which will be met by Dreamhost).  It could be any random amount, and I\'d appreciate you helping Stone Code achieve one of it\'s goals as well as supporting these worthy causes.  There are new charities every month (I think), and I will be sure to keep you posted.\r\n\r\nAny questions?   Email me: gregory.t.brown at gmail dot com','Charitable Donations',0,'','publish','open','open','','charitable-donations','','','2005-09-02 01:08:59','2005-09-02 05:08:59','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=8',0),(9,2,'2005-09-01 20:59:31','2005-09-02 00:59:31','Apparently, Microsoft is trying to make using C as hard as possible to use in Visual Studio .NET to encourage people to turn to C++ and C#\r\n(Or at least that\'s my assumption).  \r\n\r\n For the *nix savvy, I post this little tutorial on just how to get VS.Net to run a hello world program so that you can laugh ( a lot! ) .  \r\n\r\n For my Intermediate C class, I post this so that you can get VS.net working though I highly recommend doing some research on GVim, Cygwin, and gcc to save yourselves some serious headaches down the line.  \r\n\r\n <a href=\"http://stonecode.org/cstut/\">Nevertheless, let\'s begin the torture... err... tour.</a>\r\n\r\nIf you have trouble or want to mention something, feel free to leave a comment.\r\n\r\n','C in Windows Nightmare Explained',0,'','publish','open','open','','c-in-windows-nightmare-explained','','','2005-09-01 21:23:53','2005-09-02 01:23:53','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=9',0),(10,2,'2005-09-05 11:04:06','2005-09-05 15:04:06','Because this is relevant to the type of work I do I decided to syndicate this brief book review from my personal weblog:\r\n\r\n\" The book I read was The Anarchist in the Library by Siva Vaidhyanathan and it was incredible. It talked about the nature of anarchism and it’s influence on society. (That’s small a anarchism, not necessarily the brand associated with the Anarchist Movement, but just the nature of unestablished action ) It talks about the oligarchy’s tendency to try to limit the openness of society in support of authority and state, and even their various attempts to create the illusion of ‘panics’ which make such circumventions of freedom seem just or reasonable. Siva provides a pragmatic analysis of the situation, and is not afraid to admit weaknesses or problems existent within the various Anti-Establishment movements (to include that of the Libertarians) and though I may not share his moderate view, I respect this in his presentation. He is clearly in favor of an open society but is willing to consider the claims and concerns of the other side, which makes it more likely for people to take him seriously. This book was very high level, and though it does not limit itself to a particular niche, you may find yourself struggling in places if you are not a technophile or a fan of the sciences. Nevertheless, it was an amazing read despite the fact that it ate up my whole day. \"\r\n\r\nSiva responded on my personal blog which was surprising.  So i figured it couldn\'t hurt to pimp his wares over here on the professional blog, too.\r\n','Anarchist in the Library (Review)',0,'','publish','open','open','','10','','','2005-09-05 11:08:38','2005-09-05 15:08:38','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=10',0),(11,2,'2005-09-13 13:18:30','2005-09-13 17:18:30','Again, Community, Community, Community for Stone Code.\r\n\r\nI\'ve started a ruby programmers group here at the University of New Haven to continue to reach out the community and help people learn about concepts such as agile design and pragmatic programming.   With the help of James Edward Gray II, hopefully we\'ll put together a great program for the students here.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://stonecode.org/organizations/unh.rb\">http://stonecode.org/organizations/unh.rb/</a>','UNH.rb',0,'','publish','open','open','','unhrb','','','2005-10-26 02:53:31','2005-10-26 06:53:31','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=11',0),(12,2,'2005-09-20 15:58:29','2005-09-20 19:58:29','So, it appears that I\'ve taken it upon myself to fight for yet another community\'s rights.\r\n\r\nThis time, it was the University of New Haven student body.  Our network was out for over 2 hours consistantly and many more smaller increments throughout the weekend, causing me to miss both of my scheduled UNH.rb online meetings as well as experience all sorts of problems that someone as reliant on the Internet as I am.  \r\n\r\nFirst I will offer my account of the situation in plain terms so those of you who scratched your head at the Network Status message can get an idea of what happened in plain terms.\r\n\r\n<em>A critical network component failed, causing the entire network to experience an outage.  There was a backup system in place, but it did not switch over correctly due to a malfunction.  The department identified the problem with this piece of hardware earlier, and the replacement is on the way, but it failed before they could replace it.  Though it normally would not take a long time to replace this device in an emergency, there were some scheduling conflicts that delayed the process. \r\n</em>\r\n\r\nNow if you\'re interested in the whole story, read on.\r\n\r\nInstinctively I sent a somewhat hostile message to the Director of Networking as well as the student body.  The reason for this was a combination of frustration and the fact that the explanation the student body recieved was insufficient and unclear as to what the actual problem was.  I highly doubt anyone understood a word in it, because it was in a jargon only network nerds (such as myself) can or should comprehend.  Therefore, I needed to elicit a response which would clarify what actually happened.\r\n\r\nImmediately after it was sent, I recieved over 10 emails and instant messages thanking me for putting in words the frustrations of the student body.\r\n\r\nAlan MacDougall was the  first to address my concerns.  We had a rather extensive dialogue in which I learned what the actual situation was, the actions of the department throughout the situation, as well as the stance taken by the department about future issues.  Unfortunately, Alan declined permission for me to show you what he said, which may have been an appropriate action if he intended to protect the reputation of his department, or not have it cast in a skewed light.\r\n\r\nHowever, here is essentially the jist of what was said.  The issue was primarily one in getting a technician or administrator to the University in a timely fashion to resolve the problem.  There was trouble contacting Greg, the Director of Networking, and this led to the disorganization which increased the delay in fixing the problem.\r\n\r\nThis problem was never supposed to happen in the first place, because the system was SUPPOSED to go to a backup one if it failed.  This may be part of the reason why it was not watched as closely as it should have been, though Alan did not comment on this.\r\n\r\nAlan cited that 87 hours of downtime was not unheard of or uncommon in businesses.  This is 99% reliability, which may seem like a big number, but in real terms, clearly is not.\r\n\r\nFor this, I refer you to Technet:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\"In an organization that is operational 24x7x365 (24 hours a day/seven days a week/365 days a year), systems that are 99 percent reliable will be unavailable, on average, 87 hours (3.5 days) every year. Moreover, that downtime can occur at unpredictable times—possibly when it is least affordable. It is important to understand that an availability level of 99 percent could prove costly to your business.\r\n\r\nInstead, the percentage of uptime you should strive for is some variation of 99.x percent—with an ultimate goal of five nines, or 99.999 percent. For a single server in your organization, three nines (99.9 percent) is an achievable level of availability. Achieving five nines (99.999 percent) is unrealistic for a single server because this level of availability allows for approximately five minutes of downtime per calendar year. However, by implementing fault tolerant clusters with automatic failover capabilities, four nines (99.99 percent) is achievable. It is even possible to achieve five nines if you also implement fault tolerant measures, such as server-class hardware, advanced storage solutions, and service redundancy.\"\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3HighAvGuide/268d7cbe-fbe5-4287-babc-143487c3969b.mspx\">Original link</a>\r\n\r\nSo if Alan\'s indication is that we can expect 99% reliability, that mean you might expect about 1.5 hours of downtime a week.\r\n\r\nHowever, before I make it seem that the Tech department is evil and out to screw University Students, let me clarify:\r\n\r\nIt\'s not that they aren\'t doing their job, it\'s not that they don\'t care.  From talking to both of these individuals, it\'s obvious that our needs are important to them.  However, you may not (and probably have not) realized that from the \"Network Status\" which tend to be terse and overly complex at best.   \r\n\r\nMr. Bartholomow also declined permission for me to quote him directly, but indicated that the messages sent to the students are less informative than they can be, because it is enormously difficult to find the appropriate wording for such things.   This certainly has some truth to it. \r\n\r\nMr. Bartholomew asserted that there was indeed a scheduling conflict involved and that it would be dealt with in due course.\r\nHe also informed me that the new hardware will be redundant so that we will not have this same problem again.\r\n\r\nHe indicated that if it were possible with the current funding to have a 24/7 staff, they would have one.  However, again it boils down to \'not enough money to go around\' which forces our University\'s departments to make due with what they have.\r\n\r\nI am uneasy with this, and really hope that the University takes this seriously and gets the Technology department (or whatever their official name is) the money they need to achieve 99.99% uptime, which is the goal we should be striving for. \r\n\r\nOur technology department is full of capable and hard working people.  It may just be that these people do not place enough emphasis on making it clear to the students that they care.   The best way for them to do so is give simple, honest, complete explanations to the student body and the university as a whole.  Most of you don\'t know what a \'blade\' is, but everyone can understand that they were having trouble contact the right people to fix the problem, that there was supposed to be a backup system that failed, and that they\'re working on prevention methods to keep this from happening again.  But you wouldn\'t know that from the email they sent you, and therein lies the problem.\r\n\r\nIt is our responsibility as students to ask the hard questions when necessary, to demand clear and truthful explanations of problems.  Sometimes, even we forget that.  So it\'s not surprising that maybe the tech department got a little laxed with their communications regarding a very serious problem.\r\n\r\nIt is my hope that they use this as a learning experience, and that the student body will be more vigilant about their rights and continue to demand that our departments respect them.  It is their duty to serve our needs, and though they may be doing a great job of it working on this behind the scenes, they haven\'t made it clear to us, and they certainly should.\r\n\r\nIt is also my hope that the University opens up a dialogue with the tech department that involves a REAL evaluation of costs involved in providing a reliable network.  It seems like we\'re trying to squeeze blood from a stone, and from my experience, it ends up costing more and being less effective in the long run to use an incomplete solution as a means to an end.\r\n\r\nBottom line... Students need to speak up when they think something is fishy, The tech department needs to address the real problem in plain terms whenever it shows up so that the University community understands, and the University itself needs to open the pocketbook a little wider so that we can be ensured reliable connectivity to the Internet, as it is absolutely essential and holds a higher priority in most of our lives than many other \"improvements\" that can be made to the campus.\r\n\r\nBut this is just a rant from an angry coder who lost the internet for a couple hours.  Don\'t take me too seriously.\r\n\r\nI hope this offers an alternate view of the situation for anyone interested though.\r\n\r\nI appreciate Alan and Greg\'s efforts to clarify the situation with me, and I hope that I have explained it in a way you\'ll be able to understand too.  Of course, this is only my account, so do not take it as absolute or fully correct.\r\n\r\nThat\'s the end of this chapter... Hopefully we\'ve all learned something that will improve our community for the better.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','The University of New Haven Network Outage',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-university-of-new-haven-network-outage','','','2005-10-02 12:40:00','2005-10-02 16:40:00','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=12',0),(13,2,'2005-09-28 03:14:20','2005-09-28 07:14:20','It\'s safe to say that Ruport is starting to get \'Down with the Sickness\'.\r\n\r\nScheduled release date for Ruport 0.2.0 is Friday, October 7th.  It will feature full unit tests for all implemented features, a fix to the two executable hack(ruport and ruport.rb), the new file gizmo\'s and report generation automation, exception handling and logging for core ruport issues as well as some custom exception classes to be handled in the templates.\r\n\r\nI\'d love to go into implementation details of the above mentioned features, but a few I still have not even dreamed up yet, so you\'ll just have to keep an eye on the CVS if you\'re interested.\r\n\r\nBelow is a running ruport template which saves a data query with the columns seperated by |\'s to a file called foo.txt in the reports directory OR to a file specified on the command line, and also emails the report to me.\r\n<strong>\r\n<code>@file ||= \"reports/foo.txt\" </code>\r\n\r\n<code>@mailer.recipients += \"gregory.t.brown@gmail.com\"</code>\r\n\r\n<code>select \"* from ruport_test where day_of_month > 10\" do |r|</code>\r\n<code>           @report += r.join(\" | \") + \"\\n\"</code>\r\n<code>end</code>\r\n\r\n<code>generate_report</code>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, where\'s all the code?  That\'s getting to be a common question with ruport templates, who leave all the frameworking behind the scenes where it should be :)\r\n\r\nBy the way, in 0.2.0, even <em>generate_template</em> will be behind the scenes, making this example a line shorter!','Ruport 0.1.9:  The Bleeding Edge',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-019-the-bleeding-edge','','','2005-09-28 03:25:03','2005-09-28 07:25:03','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=13',0),(14,2,'2005-10-01 05:07:48','2005-10-01 09:07:48','So... Here\'s the good news. \r\n\r\n Getting Rails to run on stonecode took about a quarter of a minute.\r\nI poured through the first two chapters of <strong>Agile Web Development with Rails</strong> with lightning speed to ensure that things are working.\r\n\r\nTherefore, for those of you who are waiting on the Stone Code Web Application, I\'ve now taken my first real step towards building it.\r\n\r\nIt was a baby step, because it\'s 5 am.  But if I wake up with motivation in a few hours, there is a chance you might see a partial prototype by the end of the weekend.\r\n\r\nI must say, I\'ve never been more pleased with a service than I am with Dreamhost.\r\nThey\'re incredible.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','Duke Nukem Forever -- Err... The Stonecode Website Status Update',0,'','publish','open','open','','duke-nukem-forever-err-the-stonecode-website-status-update','','','2005-10-02 12:40:13','2005-10-02 16:40:13','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=14',0),(15,2,'2005-10-04 04:12:06','2005-10-04 08:12:06','The Stone Code Store is now open!  We are currently in the business of selling weapons that will aid you in the killing of cute animals.  See for yourself here:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://stonecode.org:3000/store\">http://stonecode.org:3000/store</a>\r\n\r\nBefore you take an axe to my throat, realize that this of course, is in jest.  Not only is the store incomplete, it\'s entirely fictional, and is merely a slightly more colorful example of the Depot tutorial in <b> Agile Web Development with Rails</b>.  \r\n\r\nI just figured I\'d give those of you who read this a quick update on my Rails learning, which is essential for my building of the Stone Code Web Application that some of you are itching to usurp from me and use on your accounts.  I have just completed chapter 7, and all is good in Railsville.  \r\n\r\nExpect the Stone Code Web Application before Thanksgiving.  That\'s the best estimate I can make presently.  \r\n\r\nHowever, I do plan to release <b>Ruport 0.2.0</b> this Friday, so needless to say, Stone Code is busy as a beaver... maybe even two beavers.  ','Stone Code Store',0,'','publish','open','open','','stone-code-store','','','2005-10-06 10:37:47','2005-10-06 14:37:47','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=15',0),(16,2,'2005-10-04 05:06:43','2005-10-04 09:06:43','In the month of september, I had 10,846 page requests on all of Stonecode\'s services.\r\n\r\nOf those,  6781 were Firefox.  Users of IE, Camino, and yes, even Safari, Get with the picture!\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://stonecode.org/images/browsum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" />\r\n\r\nAnd now onto our OSes, You can see that when you combine OS X and other forms of Unix, Stone Code users and their audience are trumping Windows like mad.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://stonecode.org/images/os.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\"/>\r\n\r\nWhoo :)\r\n\r\n','The Fire Spreads On.',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-fire-spreads-on','','','2005-10-04 05:07:58','2005-10-04 09:07:58','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=16',0),(17,2,'2005-10-06 20:28:22','2005-10-07 00:28:22','<a href=\"http://www.stonecode.org:3001/fortune\">http://www.stonecode.org:3001/fortune</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>2 Lines of Ruby on Rails Code + 14 Lines of RHTML =</strong>\r\n<strong><em> N - 1 bored CS students in a C Lecture right now.</em></strong>\r\nWhere I am that one entertained student, which of course, has nothing to do with C :)\r\n\r\n','AJAX in your eyes!',0,'','publish','open','open','','ajax-in-your-eyes','','','2005-10-06 20:33:36','2005-10-07 00:33:36','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=17',0),(18,2,'2005-10-09 13:08:45','2005-10-09 17:08:45','I\'ve rather selfishly donated $25 to the organizers of <a href=\"http://rubyconf.org\">RubyConf 2005</a>, seeing as I\'ll be attending it this year :)\r\n\r\nAll kidding aside though, <a href=\"http://rubycentral.org\">RubyCentral</a> has provided a ton of wonderful resources to the Ruby community, including such things as the codefest grant which allowed me to go out and work with James Edward Gray II on <a href=\"http://rubyforge.org/projects/gambit\">Gambit</a> this past summer.\r\n\r\nSo, if your interested in keeping an organization that promotes people like me to \"Keep it Real\", please consider donating at the site below.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.rubycentral.org/pledge/\">\r\nhttp://www.rubycentral.org/pledge/</a>\r\n\r\nA note for those hosted on Stonecode.org, especially organizations, you\'re getting FREE hosting ya bums!  Kick some cash my way and actually help something! ;)  Again, if you\'re using Stone Code for something and have even a few extra bucks to spare, get ahold of me and I\'ll lump your cash together and fire it out to this great cause.\r\n\r\nOkay, I\'m done soliciting.  For now.','RubyCentral Donation',0,'','publish','open','open','','rubycentral-donation','','','2005-10-09 13:10:00','2005-10-09 17:10:00','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=18',0),(19,2,'2005-10-09 22:09:36','2005-10-10 02:09:36','Yes!\r\n<a href=\"http://project.ioni.st/post/269#post-269\">\r\nhttp://project.ioni.st/post/269#post-269</a>\r\n','',0,'','publish','open','open','','19','','','2005-10-09 22:10:13','2005-10-10 02:10:13','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=19',0),(20,2,'2005-10-13 12:09:54','2005-10-13 16:09:54','I missed a flight this morning and now have to leave Dallas via a standby-status flight.  I expect to reach California sometime tonight, but I don\'t know if it will be in time for the dinner.\r\n\r\nSee ya when I see ya...\r\n\r\nGreg\r\n\r\n(Posted by James Edward Gray II.)','California, The Slow Way',0,'','publish','open','open','','california-the-slow-way','','','2005-10-14 18:40:17','2005-10-14 22:40:17','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=20',0),(21,2,'2005-10-14 14:05:33','2005-10-14 18:05:33','Francis Hwang gave a great first talk on unit testing and talked a lot about how to use mock objects to increase the speed of unit tests.  He explained a bit about MockFS, including the crackrock feature that redefines Fileutils and the like.  I personally think that\'s cool as hell but it does seem like it could be incredibly dangerous.\r\n\r\nHe mentioned the fact that <a href=\"http://lafcadio.rubyforge.org\">Lafcadio</a> completly mocks MySQL to the point where you can test it without even having a database installed.  I am absolutely sure that I need to steal this functionality for <a href=\"http://ruport.rubyforge.org\">Ruport</a> :)\r\n\r\nHe used easyprompt as example of mock user IO.  Meh.  I think we handle it better(support direct StringIO)  in <a href=\"http://highline.rubyforge.org\">HighLine</a>, but that\'s my ego talking.\r\n\r\nAnyway, you can check out the code examples from this first talk here:\r\n<a href=\"http://fhwang.net/top_to_bottom/\">http://fhwang.net/top_to_bottom/</a>\r\n\r\nDHH really made it clear that he pretty much disapproves of mocking in unit tests and talked about how all the Basecamp units are gone in 60 seconds or less using a \'real\' database.  \r\n\r\nMeh, at least the ghost of Tim Toady is alive and well in this room.\r\n\r\nOn a side note... sitting next to me right now is Matz.  That\'s kind of intimidating. :)\r\n\r\nAnd... the open-uri talk is starting, so... I\'ll have more later.','Unit testing talk .',0,'','publish','open','open','','unit-testing-talk','','','2005-10-14 17:08:08','2005-10-14 21:08:08','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=21',0),(22,2,'2005-10-14 17:44:42','2005-10-14 21:44:42','In the Open-URI talk, Akira Tanaka gave some great insight into good design.  In fact, it seemed as if this was the central point of the talk, rather than open-uri itself.  This is not due to the fact that open-uri is not worth much attention, but rather that it is designed so simply, that everything it does just \'makes sense\'.  Through his talk, Akira showed us how to follow the DRY methodology and the \"no configuration is good configuration\" concept to produce something simple yet elegant.\r\n\r\nThe JRuby talk was a bit over my head as I\'ve closed my eyes to Java and never want to look back.  There was some quite interesting discussion of the limitations of an implementation within the JVM (such as stack depth and speed), but nevertheless, for those who need to sneak Ruby through the system, I\'m sure this talk helped them get up to speed, as well as point out any gotchas that might be of note.  I think it\'s pretty neat that they\'re going to continue to try to make mainstream ruby apps run under JRuby. \r\n\r\nWell... the YARV talk is downright hilarious.  So I\'m going to put my attention into it right now.  More on that (and a top secret Ruport discussion / hackfest? ) in a bit.\r\n\r\n','Open-URI / JRuby',0,'','publish','open','open','','open-uri-jruby','','','2005-10-14 17:44:42','2005-10-14 21:44:42','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=22',0),(23,2,'2005-10-14 18:38:58','2005-10-14 22:38:58','The YARV talk was excellent.  Koichi Sasada is one of the most entertaining people I\'ve seen at this conference.  It seems as if YARV is getting really close to being \'ready\'.  Of course, he\'s got plenty of hurdles to cross before it\'s 100% there.  The best way I can summarize the talk is that YARV is way faster than the current interpreter and that it pulls some really neat tricks as far as the way it handles ruby code.  Of course, it\'s going to need to handle c extensions, which means it\'ll need to be able to run mkmf.rb or implement some equivalent, which is cannot yet do.\r\n\r\nTwo very cool things to be taken out of this talk:\r\n\r\n\r\n1. ) <a href=\"http://www.atdot.net/yc/\">http://www.atdot.net/yc/</a> : \r\n\r\nA CGI based program that\'ll compile your ruby and then decompile it into YARV bytecode.  (Which will let you see how Sasada is doing a good job of making assembly language look as non scary as it can be)\r\n\r\n2.)   His demonstration showed that regular YARV is twice as fast as the ruby C interpreter, and the complicated but optimized YARV runs 4 times as fast.\r\n\r\nA 400% speed increase will put Ruby ahead of Python and Perl... giving us Rubyists even more bragging rights :)\r\n\r\nHere comes Reimplementing Ruby in Ruby.  Sounds scary :)\r\n\r\nMore on this and the \"Spooky\" Ruport plans later.  \r\n\r\n','YARV!',0,'','publish','open','open','','yarv','','','2005-10-14 18:40:52','2005-10-14 22:40:52','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=23',0),(24,2,'2005-10-14 19:31:35','2005-10-14 23:31:35','So... the MetaRuby talk was quite interesting.\r\n\r\nThe basis of the project seems quite reasonable.  Let\'s get Ruby the hell out of C so that it can be understood better!  Makes sense to me, I have never looked at the source code for the interpreter but I imagine there is some voodoo in there that would look far nicer in Ruby.\r\n\r\nIt seems like this project has two major caveats.  1) It hinges on a lot of other dependencies... understandably.  2) It\'s a HUGE project.\r\n\r\nHopefully Seattle.rb will be able to pull together the resources necessary to do this, because it\'s really cool.  The talk was interesting because it let us get an insight into what exactly is going on underneath the hood in Ruby and how it might look with a bit of a facelift via a language change.\r\n\r\nIt seems to me like implementing the system in itself will be enormously complex, but I guess that\'s what makes it so damn interesting.\r\n\r\nFor those of you who are interested, after the roundtable discussion tonight I\'m going to be hacking on <a href=\"http://ruport.rubyforge.org\">Ruport</a>.\r\n\r\n I\'d love to meet up with some of you that are interested in this project to get suggestions and pretty much steal your ideas.  I want Ruport to be great, but I need to know what people think is cool and what people think sucks to do that, so tonight is as good of a night as any.  If you\'d like to code along with me, or just offer some helpful hints, you\'re welcome to.  I\'m guessing i\'ll start around 10pm, somewhere at the hotel.\r\n\r\nIf you\'re interested, email me at: gregory.t.brown@gmail.com or come find me later.\r\n\r\nNow I\'m off to get lost using the buses.  RubyConf 2005 Day 1 has rocked!','MetaRuby Talk, and shady dealings',0,'','publish','open','open','','metaruby-talk-and-shady-dealings','','','2005-10-14 19:33:09','2005-10-14 23:33:09','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=24',0),(25,2,'2005-10-15 13:29:51','2005-10-15 17:29:51','I missed part of the Roundtable last night because I was taking a cab back from Downtown San Diego after walking to Coranado Island (occasionally catching a bus).  I simply needed to see the Pacific Ocean and it ended up costing me almost $40 and about 5 hours of time, but I got there :)\r\n\r\nWhen I came back, I got into the room to see Matz sitting there answering a barrage of questions.  It seemed as if that was a scary position to be in, but that he was enjoying it.  Someone asked if there was anything from Perl 6 that he\'d consider stealing, and to get a rouse out of the room, Matz just said one word \"Arrow\".\r\n\r\nIt was funny to hear Austin Zielger asked \"when we can expect Marshalling for all objects\" as if he was saying \"When am I going to get my money\" while holding a tire iron.  Matz laid it out straight, we\'ll never see it.  There is just no clear way to deal with marshalling certain things.  However, the biggest concerns were things such as procs and closures and singletons, which Matz said would be addressed in 2.0\r\n\r\nThen the question of the evening (IMHO) was posed by Hal Fulton.  He asked if Matz though Ruby 2.0 is too ambitious to be attainable.  Matz said something to the effect that 2.0 might be something like Perl 6, which caused a silence to fall over the room.   But Matz reassured us that we\'d all keep working hard and we\'d get there \"eventually\".\r\n\r\nAll in all, it was an exciting evening.\r\n\r\nThe No Clergy talk was pretty interesting.  Kevin Baird demonstrated how his software worked, and I thought the idea was great.  A democratic orchestra?  For those of you who aren\'t familiar with No Clergy, it\'s basically this polling system that takes a bunch of traits and allows the audience to rate them and then does some Markovian transformations on the music to generate sheets that reflect the popular opinion.  This is done actively throughout the performance.\r\n\r\nThe relevance to ruby was the fact that this software was originally written in Python and was refactored into Ruby.   He explained the system a bit, and it certainly shows promise.\r\n\r\nI found his webpage for the software, but it\'s quite limited in information.   Nevertheless:\r\n<a href=\"http://nibbler.med.buffalo.edu/noclergy/?li=yes\">http://nibbler.med.buffalo.edu/noclergy/?li=yes</a>\r\n\r\nSome interesting points to note are that Kevin threw the question regarding packaging (Gems vs. Debian) at the audience.  Thankfully, someone suggested \"why not both!?!\", Kevin admitted laziness, which of course elicited the response \"script it away!\"... I\'m sure that a rake task could handle this quite quickly. \r\n\r\nSomeone also mentioned that there is an automated gem -> ebuild program for gentoo.  A quick googling couldn\'t locate this, but as a regular Gentoo user myself, I\'m definitly going to have to find it.\r\n\r\nThere was a talk about a Refactoring browser for Ruby.  Meh.  I feel like vim takes fine care of me.   Though I think such tools would be great for people who enjoy FreeRide and the like.\r\n\r\nOkay, so thats that.  Marine Bio talk is going on right now.   He is finally getting into the Ruby, there was quite a bit of background information which I admittedly did not catch all of.  But I\'ll be sure to comment on the ruby in a bit.\r\n\r\nExtracurricular Activities:\r\n\r\n1) Ruport\r\n\r\nI did not end up doing much work on Ruport because I felt like I was going to die after the walk in and around Coronado but today and tonight will certainly give rise to some Ruport news.\r\n\r\nThere is a certain feature everyone wants that I was saying no to for a while but have caved.  You bastards are getting charting support!\r\n\r\n2) Go.  \r\n\r\nI found a guy playing Go on his machine.   If anyone at the conference brought a board with them and wants to play, I am so down for it!  Email me:  gregory.t.brown at gmail dot com\r\n\r\n\r\n','Roundtable / No Clergy / Ruport / Coronado / Go',0,'','publish','open','open','','roundtable-no-clergy-ruport-coronado-go','','','2005-10-15 13:30:55','2005-10-15 17:30:55','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=25',0),(26,2,'2005-10-15 17:37:38','2005-10-15 21:37:38','The presentations have kicked some serious ass today!\r\n\r\nBrent Roman explained an interesting application of Ruby in embedded devices for a scientific application.  It was interesting to see that it is possible to use Ruby in a real time environment and he accomplishes this through some tricky communication with embedded controllers that use  C firmware which is configured by Ruby.\r\n\r\nHe made an interesting point about some issues with Mutex, such as the ability for a thread to come along and pretty much highjack the lock, or something to that effect.  This was a bit over my head, honestly.\r\n\r\nOne of the coolest things was that he explained how he managed to get the ruby interpreter to be incredibly small (< 2 MB total ) by going through the makefile and dropping things such as tk, curses, and the like from the standard lib.\r\n\r\nThis sounds like a lot of fun, and of course, in his case, a necessary condition for certain applications.\r\n\r\nThe PDF::Writer presentation was yet another mind blowing experience.  Austin Ziegler started by generating his slideshow using PDF::Writer.   It was using an upcoming presentation system, which has not yet been implemented in a major release.\r\n\r\nHe showed all sorts of neat little tricks with PDF::Writer including SVG support.  He also managed to show us some of the areas of PDF::Writer that still need work.\r\n\r\nOver lunch myself and some others talked to him about charting and he let us know that someone offered some contributions.   With the demand for charts in Ruport, if these contributions come later rather than sooner, it\'s likely I will contribute some charting functionality as well, though it might be a little bit coupled to Ruport.\r\n\r\nAustin talked fairly extensively about good API design and suggested that it\'s a matter of feeling out a piece of software until it feels right and then being consistent.  Between PDF::Writer and open-uri, I am getting more and more inspired to provide a beautiful API for Ruport, though this probably means a fairly heavy amount of refactoring.\r\n\r\nFor those who are curious, Ruport is finally passing it\'s shoddy unit tests again after a HORRIBLE mishap (details later).  These tests are going to be completely rewritten using some of the ideas and methodologies I\'ve picked up out here.\r\n\r\nJim Weirich has the floor now for DSLs.  I\'ll have my take on this talk and the AWESOME ZenHacks talk later today...\r\n','Marine Bio (Ruby Embedded) / PDF::Writer ',0,'','publish','open','open','','marine-bio-ruby-embedded-pdfwriter','','','2005-10-15 17:38:24','2005-10-15 21:38:24','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=26',0),(27,2,'2005-10-15 18:46:51','2005-10-15 22:46:51','Well... here comes the promised update before the next talk begins.\r\n\r\nThe ZenHacks talk was definitely exciting.  They went through the whole suite of oddities from Ruby2C to Ruby2Ruby and warned us of the amazing amount of Dragons that lie beneath.  There were two projects that tied into this that appeared to be very useful though, these two are <a href=\"http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyinline/\">RubyInline</a> and <a href=\"http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/ZenTest/\">ZenTest</a>\r\n\r\nRubyInline basically makes C appear to be interpreted by letting you literally drop it in place alongside Ruby code.  It handles all the compiling and linking for you internally, leaving no hassle for you.\r\n\r\nZenTest generates missing methods from tests, and missing tests from methods.  The coolest thing in the package is unit-diff, which prevents the whole \r\n\r\n[100linesofgoodhtml] expected but got [100linesofbadhtml].\r\n\r\nIt produces diff files showing exactly what was different between the two :)\r\n\r\nFor the DSL presentation, Jim Weirich brought us through the dredges of ruby\'s voodoo in such things as Constant / Method missing to implement simple to write and clean domain specific languages.\r\n\r\nHe implemented this killer Rubik\'s cube application which ran in IRb and implemented a DSL that interpreted Rubik notation and even offered a nice colored display.  A quick google implies it\'s not just sitting out there online for our consumption, but if you can find it, check it out because it was downright awesome. \r\n\r\nAnyway, Karlin is now talking about Systir, which I will have more on later.','Zenhacks /  DSLs',0,'','publish','open','open','','zenhacks-dsls','','','2005-10-15 18:46:51','2005-10-15 22:46:51','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=27',0),(28,2,'2005-10-18 02:06:21','2005-10-18 06:06:21','The conference was amazing.  Everyone who participated was so great to be around.  I even managed to rustle up some Ruport supporters :)\r\n\r\nThe keynote address, though it bordered on a flamewar, showed some great ideas from Dave Thomas regarding the lambda dillema...\r\nsuggesting <em>def (n = 5) ... end</em>, which to me seems great (No arrows!)  Of course, david black\'s suggestion of lambda (x =2) ... end was also quite compelling.  An interesting compromise was proposed that the latter be a closure and the former not, which is quite interesting.\r\n\r\nMatz\'s theme was \"wild and crazy\' ideas, and I\'m sure you can find a summary elsewhere regarding the specifics.  One great thing from the conference were the people using SubEthaEdit to do some collaborative journalism.  These posts are on the feed, so I\'m sure you\'ve probably seen them already.\r\n\r\nThe final panels on rails and the long tail and damagecontrol were interesting, but in my not at all humble opinion, paled in comparison to the earlier talks.   DamageControl looked promising but there were a lot of technical difficulties and pinholes that got in the way of an otherwise good presentation. However, DHH\'s workshop on \"What\'s new in Rails 1.0\" made up for this, and pretty much got us up to speed on what to expect.  I\'m excited about schema support and the ability to freeze the gems, as these two features seem really handy.\r\n\r\nFrom what I heard, the continuations talk was brain melting but awesome.\r\n\r\nI\'m proud to say that I\'m going to be doing my best to attend the monthly NYC.rb meetings from now on.  Francis Hwang and Matt Pelletier seem like great guys, so I\'m psyched to get some Ruby and Rails goodness from their groups.\r\n\r\nTo all the organizers, presenters, and attendees of RubyConf 2005, thanks a ton for a great conference and see you next year!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','Final Take: RubyConf 2005',0,'','publish','open','open','','final-take-rubyconf-2005','','','2005-10-18 02:06:21','2005-10-18 06:06:21','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=28',0),(29,2,'2005-10-20 01:33:09','2005-10-20 05:33:09','So, the RubyConf has set my mind on fire and I don\'t think I can put it out.  There were so many wonderful technologies out there, so many great ideas, so many cool people.  Anyway, that having been said... I have some bad news.   Aside from my weekly hours at work and the UNH.rb meetings (next one will be next week sometime), I am taking a few weeks vacation from the Lady in Red.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, as much as I love hacking Ruby almost as much as certain carnal desires, my grades have really taken a punch in the stomach due to my involvement with most anything BUT my homework for Intermediate C, Databases, Physics, and even my favorite, Calculus.\r\n\r\nTherefore, those who were awaiting Ruport 0.2.0 with it\'s wonderful bug fixes or Ruport 0.3.0 with Charting rudiments and PDF::Writer / Parse-input integration, I would not hold your breath just yet.\r\n\r\nAnd for those of you expecting the Stone Code Web Application, sorry but it\'ll be a while.\r\n\r\nI simply need to get on track with school, an unfortunate but necessary task.  Don\'t be sad though, this is all in preparation for a cloak and daggar move which cannot yet be announced regarding Stone Code\'s future, though I assure you... it will make this wait well worth it.\r\n\r\nSo if my development crawls in the coming weeks, many apologies.  You might see a decent sprint on thanksgiving, but no promises just yet.\r\nAnd trust me, winter break brings surprises to be had!','Long Story Short, Short Story Long',0,'','publish','open','open','','long-story-short-short-story-long','','','2005-10-20 01:33:09','2005-10-20 05:33:09','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=29',0),(30,2,'2005-10-25 04:16:55','2005-10-25 08:16:55','So I sort of lied about shying away from the lady in red for a short time.\r\n\r\nI couldn\'t resist coding up a little bit of voodoo to help me do my C homework.\r\n\r\nPart watered down rake, part simple markup language, part insanity, I introduce Foo 0.0.0\r\n\r\nIt\'s in the public domain, it has more dependencies than a crackhead... and here is it\'s list of commands:\r\n\r\ncompile,run,output,$, !, __, **, ~\r\n\r\nHmm... the end there really goes into Perl-la land doesn\'t it?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://stonecode.org/goodies/foo-0.0.0.tgz\">here you are Ethan... </a>but don\'t say I didn\'t warn ya\'s!\r\n\r\nOh yeah, why Public Domain?  Because I was in the mood to literally throw this sucker away, publicly! :)\r\n\r\n\r\n ','Foo 0.0.0',0,'','publish','open','open','','foo-000','','','2005-10-25 04:18:13','2005-10-25 08:18:13','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=30',0),(31,2,'2005-10-26 03:03:34','2005-10-26 07:03:34','Anyone who is able to commute to NYC once a month and does not attend NYC.rb meetings is totally out of their mind!\r\n\r\nRob and I took a trip down to Matt Pelletier\'s office to find around 20 Rubyists circling around a projector.  Lo and behold, Francis Hwang and pals were providing a RubyConf 2005 replay for their group!  It was interesting in a way for those of us who attended to go through and share our experiences as well as to hear the insight of those who could not attend.  It was far less formal and the open discussions were quite interesting.\r\n\r\nThe discussions ranged from business practices to design methodology to specific technologies and their usage.  The chemistry of the room was similar to that of the RubyConf, for which I was absolutely thrilled.  \r\n\r\nAfter going through a few of the presentations, we collectively tried to wrap our heads around continuations, and failed.  Nevertheless, we did gain a bit of a feel for their magic and that was exciting.  \r\n\r\nPizza + Beer + NYC.rb = One hell of an awesome night.\r\n\r\nThe meetings for NYC.rb are the last Tuesday of every month, though Francis may be increasing them to be twice a month.\r\n\r\nFor those who are members of UNH.rb (Soon to be NewHaven.rb), you are welcome to tag along with Rob and I for an excellent experience.\r\n\r\nThanks a ton NYC.rb, we had a killer time!\r\n','NYC.rb',0,'','publish','open','open','','nycrb','','','2005-10-26 03:04:24','2005-10-26 07:04:24','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=31',0),(32,2,'2005-10-27 03:39:05','2005-10-27 07:39:05','Been busy with <a href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/4be2b74cb9dcb41c/c5c4567f4b4ec179#c5c4567f4b4ec179\">this</a> and <a href=\"http://stonecode.org/helios/blog\">that</a>.','Oh, the places you\'ll go!',0,'','publish','open','open','','oh-the-places-youll-go','','','2005-10-27 03:39:05','2005-10-27 07:39:05','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=32',0),(33,2,'2005-10-29 16:04:41','2005-10-29 20:04:41','<em>(update:  Aslak points out these are Fake objects rather than mocks.  Either they will be replaced with true mocks or nomenclature will be changed in Ruport 0.3.0)</em>\r\n\r\nRuport now has <a href=\"http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ruport_main/lib/ruport/db/mock_query.rb?rev=1.1&cvsroot=ruport&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup\">MockQuery</a> and <a href=\"http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ruport_main/lib/ruport/db/mock_db.rb?rev=1.2&cvsroot=ruport&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup\">MockDB</a> so it no longer will catch your hair on fire trying to get the unit tests to work.  These are not super duper robust, but they do the trick to test Ruport functionality.   I will soon be introducing fixtures of some sort so that functional testing is possible, but for now, the <a href=\"http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ruport_main/tests/tc_ruport.rb?rev=1.11&cvsroot=ruport&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup\">unit tests </a>are much easier to get running (should just work by \'rake\' with no config).','Stop (STUBBING) Me!',0,'','publish','open','open','','stop-mocking-me','','','2005-11-09 11:11:12','2005-11-09 15:11:12','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=33',0),(34,2,'2005-11-09 02:46:52','2005-11-09 06:46:52','So i\'ve been super busy which would explain the lack of bloggage.\r\n\r\nRuport 0.2.0 came out at the crack of dawn on  November 8th.  It was about a month behind schedule, but features a treasure trove of new features which were never slated to go in.\r\n\r\nnew_haven.rb officially formed.  We had our first get together last friday, and there were a total of 8 of us for dinner.  We began talking about a potential group project (an intelligent bug tracking / knowledgebase system)\r\n\r\nOur first meeting is tomorrow from 7pm to 9pm and I\'m doing a talk on unit testing.  Wheee :)\r\n\r\nMore chatter soon!','Ruport 0.2.0 is out, new_haven.rb formed, and I\'ve waited a long time to update',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-020-is-out-new_havenrb-formed-and-ive-waited-a-long-time-to-update','','','2005-11-09 02:46:52','2005-11-09 06:46:52','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=34',0),(35,2,'2005-11-10 02:14:33','2005-11-10 06:14:33','So tonight was our first meeting.  And to my surprise, i walked into the place to see David Black just sitting there.\r\n\r\nIt was amazing to see someone from RubyCentral attending a meeting at a group I thought would never get off the ground.\r\n\r\nI guess I was mistaken.  13 strong, this group of ruby newbies and intermediates alike came together with some incredible chemistry.\r\n\r\nIt was amazing to see all these people getting together, talking about many great ideas, sharing some of the problems they\'ve been having, etc.\r\n\r\nIt was also scary as hell to present a talk on unit tests to a group that I expected to be 3 or 4 strong, and newbies at that.\r\n\r\nThe main chunks of the meeting were my talk, Paul\'s talk on Solitaire Cypher, a code review of one member\'s Rails project, and an open discussion featuring a small argument regarding type safety and also whether or not \'walks like a duck\' is sufficient or if we need a more solid indicator for the users of libraries.  (I was on the \'you don\'t need it\' side of the fence  but Gary and others made some excellent points)\r\n\r\nThe entire Stone code team was there, Rob, Greg G., and myself.  David Black found a bug in one of Ruport\'s test cases that I thought i fixed before the release, but obviously didn\'t.  The good news is I switched the suspicious <code> assert()</code> call to the  intended <code>assert_equal()</code> and Ruport still passed.\r\n\r\nI am very unpleased with how DataSet#eql? is working (or not working) and I also don\'t like the test file ruport is generating when you call ruport_generate.   I\'d also like to automate SQL build scripts if possible.  It seems like a Ruport 0.2.1 is in order for this weekend, so get ready to run gem update for some minor cleanup by the end of this weekend.  \r\n\r\nI am totally psyched about new_haven.rb, the group is amazing.  Thanks to all who attended and participated.\r\n\r\n','new_haven.rb first meeting / ruport bugs',0,'','publish','open','open','','new_havenrb-first-meeting-ruport-bugs','','','2005-11-10 02:17:04','2005-11-10 06:17:04','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=35',0),(36,2,'2005-11-11 09:35:47','2005-11-11 13:35:47','Well I woke up at 7am with the sun blaring in my eyes and decided it was time to get crackin\' on Ruby Report 0.2.2\r\n\r\nRight now I\'m looking at a totally refactored organization.  \r\n\r\n<code>Ruport::Report::Engine</code>, \r\n<code>Ruport::Report::Mailer</code>, etc\r\n\r\nif you call <code>require \'ruportlib\'</code>\r\n\r\nthen it\'s just <code>Report::Mailer</code>, <code>Report::DataSet</code>, etc\r\n\r\nIt seems to make more sense.   <code>Report#generate_report</code> ?\r\n\r\nSounds better than <code>Query#generate_report </code>but I think <code>Report::Engine#generate_report</code> sounds better.\r\n\r\nAnyway, gotta figure that out.   I wish James wasn\'t on vacation so he could help me with this stuff.\r\n\r\nThe point was that I\'ve totally reworked the structure and I\'m back to passing all tests in roughly an hour.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try to do that in Java, foo!</strong>','Ruport Oh Deuce Duece, rockin and rollin\'',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-oh-deuce-duece-rockin-and-rollin','','','2005-11-11 09:38:01','2005-11-11 13:38:01','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=36',0),(37,2,'2005-11-11 12:17:54','2005-11-11 16:17:54','We\'re at 0.2.2 now.\r\n\r\nGood biddles all around :)\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://ruport.rubyforge.org\">http://ruport.rubyforge.org</a>','Ruport 0.2.2 Released',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-022-released','','','2005-11-11 12:18:43','2005-11-11 16:18:43','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=37',0),(38,2,'2005-11-12 13:42:47','2005-11-12 17:42:47','To me, agile development is nothing more than coding by exception, applied to behaviors.  You try something, you get some feedback, you change a few things, you get more feedback.  It\'s exactly the same as running a piece of code and it dumping an error like \"You\'ve got a foo where there should be a bar on line 12\".   Of course, life is more subtle than this, and we\'re often thrown the \"Syntax error on line 80000\" when you\'re dealing with a 20 line piece of code.   These type of pitfalls are where we simply need to use deduction to find the source of the problem, and not rely on the flawed feedback we\'re getting.   As agile developers, we understand this practice well when it comes to programming.   Sometimes, the feedback you get is not the right feedback you need to get the job done.   So it follows that we should practice this in our behaviors as well.  \r\n\r\nWhen I first started out programming, I was very good at building things exactly as a customer told me to.   But this is not Agile nor is it a good business practice.   My first few customers were quite displeased, no matter how close I came to meeting there expectations.  To me, this is like typing perfectly valid code that does the complete wrong job.  You say... \"there was no error when it started up\" and then when you click the big red button, your monitor shuts off instead of an email being sent or whatever it was supposed to do.  These are the more subtle errors that we need to check by inspection and use a bit of intuition to solve.  This is why understanding what the customer wants is more valuable than understanding what they say.  The more technically adept, the more dangerous a customer becomes.  My current employer is a skilled DBA.   He is not a skilled rubyist.   He\'s a smart guy so he\'s pretty good at explaining what he wants, but then when it comes down to how he thinks it should be done, it\'s really important to refactor his plans to make more sense for the real problem at hand.   I am finally learning (through trial by fire), that an open and insightful employer WILL let you make design decisions that differ from theirs as long as it makes sense within the problem domain.  So to me... the informal specifications are kind of like your logical unit tests, so it\'s important to be sure you\'re testing for the right conditions.   If you forget the edge cases, throw an assert where there should be an assert_equal, or just frame your tests so that they meet the wrong conditions, you\'re working against yourself.\r\n\r\nSo, my only point in this rant is that when you think about Agile Software Development, go ahead and read The Pragmatic Programmer and dig into the core of the Agile Manifesto and all of that stuff.  It\'s really a motivating experience and there is a ton of practical knowledge to be gained there.   But when it boils down to applying it, don\'t try terribly hard to fit some pattern, don\'t worry that Dave Thomas or Martin Fowler is going to pop out of the closet and say \"That\'s not agile!\".   Just sit down, and think about how you do your work.  What comes naturally when it\'s just you and the compiler / interpreter and a ream of source code.   Now think of applying that to your behaviors without alienating your customer.  Grab a piece of paper, draw some mock ups.   Write some unit tests during a meeting, forget the UML that they don\'t understand and you can\'t use.   Do a quick one up prototype, get some people around the monitor and let them say \"Foo is cool but I hate bar\".   \r\n\r\nAgile has become this insane buzzword and people are acting like it\'s this way of life.   Well, it is a way of life, but you already know about it well.   It\'s just a matter of applying it beyond your interaction with the keyboard and into the meeting room or the coffee shop, or wherever your business needs doing.\r\n\r\n','Agile works because it\'s what developers know best...',0,'','publish','open','open','','agile-development-works-because-its-what-developers-know-best','','','2005-11-12 13:45:53','2005-11-12 17:45:53','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=38',0),(39,2,'2005-11-29 00:09:31','2005-11-29 04:09:31','Ruport 0.2.9 \'I didn\'t sleep for 2 days straight\' Edition is out:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/baccd5b9c0c07687/e5222ed930dc81de#e5222ed930dc81de\">Original Announcement Here</a>\r\n\r\nI would write more but I am seriously tired...\r\n','Ruport 0.2.9',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-029','','','2005-11-29 00:09:31','2005-11-29 04:09:31','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=39',0),(40,2,'2005-12-03 04:50:50','2005-12-03 08:50:50','One of the highest search references this site has been hit with this month have to do with Ruport Rails integration...\r\n\r\nWell...  will Ruport ever directly support Rails?  No.\r\n\r\nHere are three pieces of good news though:\r\n\r\n1) I am putting ActiveRecord support in within the next couple weeks.\r\n    (Along with Lafcadio and Og and possibly KirbyBase, hopefully)\r\n\r\n2) I am building a commercial free software application that will be using Ruport on Rails.  There will be free (as in beer and speech) community versions of this software available eventually, within the next year or two, but the subversion will be available within the next month to serious developers and people who have special needs to see or use the code and whatnot.   I\'m actually looking for help with this project, which would involve meager pay and a nearly non-existant workplace in New York City in early January, so email me if you\'re interested in this.\r\n\r\n3) I am proof of concepting one of hopefully many components I\'ll be building for Ruport on Rails (here known as The Helios Project) and will post a link on my blog to where you can download it.  This should show up some time later this week.\r\n','Ruport on Rails???',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-on-rails','','','2005-12-03 04:52:39','2005-12-03 08:52:39','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=40',0),(41,2,'2005-12-05 15:58:51','2005-12-05 19:58:51','I totally forgot (until yesterday) that I made a little MineSweeper game while waiting for my plane on the way back from Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nSo today, I committed it to the CVS and you can see the massive source code for the application (60 lines)<a href=\"http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gambit/examples/minesweeper/game.rb?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=gambit&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup\"> here</a>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>UPDATE: Some recursion was added that \'almost\' works when auto filling zero mines, the code is about 75 lines now.</blockquote>\r\n\r\nDue to the gambit codeless server, getting this to run was as simple as:\r\nruby game.rb -p 3333 -d\r\n\r\nAnd yeah, I ran it on this very server, so go ahead and create a player and a game and see what a half hour of coding 6 months ago did. :)\r\n<a href=\"http://stonecode.org:3333\">\r\nMineSweeper server</a>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','MineSweeper?!?',0,'','publish','open','open','','minesweeper','','','2005-12-05 17:19:25','2005-12-05 21:19:25','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=41',0),(42,2,'2005-12-06 11:57:23','2005-12-06 15:57:23','<a href=\"http://stonecode.org:1999/\">http://stonecode.org:1999/</a>\r\n\r\nCreate a player (You need to create new players for each game, and they might break your other games if you don\'t use the same name.   Annoying, I know)\r\n\r\nThen hop into the Main Gambit Mailserver\r\n\r\nhit compose.\r\n\r\nSend lovely messages to other gambiters.','Behold... G(ambit)Mail!',0,'','publish','open','open','','behold-gambitmail','','','2005-12-06 11:58:16','2005-12-06 15:58:16','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=42',0),(43,2,'2005-12-08 20:00:30','2005-12-09 00:00:30','So.. when you add up the stats from the gem server (Now 374, was 263 at time of release) and the stats on the download page for Ruport 0.2.9, it exceeds 220!   That is really overwhelming considering the fact that it\'s been less than 2 weeks since the release.\r\n\r\nStill, the feedback is kind of quiet as far as bug fixes and problems for 0.3.0 go.\r\ni KNOW theres gots to be bugs out there (In fact, I fixed one in ODBC the other day ;) )\r\n\r\nSo what are your problems folks?  Oh... wait... that wasn\'t meant to sound combative!\r\n\r\nWhat problems are you having with Ruport... ah yes.. that\'s less confrontational\r\n\r\nOh yeah, i did a presentation on Ruport today.  You can grab a PDF of it, my lecture notes, and some handy dandy example stuff (including ruport_demo.rb, which makes IRb a playground for Ruport :) ) if you want.\r\n\r\nIt\'s here: <a href=\"http://stonecode.org/ruport/ruport.zip\">http://stonecode.org/ruport/ruport.zip</a>','220 downloads can\'t be wrong.',0,'','publish','open','open','','220-downloads-cant-be-wrong','','','2005-12-08 20:02:20','2005-12-09 00:02:20','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=43',0),(45,2,'2005-12-13 11:18:40','2005-12-13 15:18:40','So, I added myself over at Advogato, finally.\r\n<a href=\"http://advogato.org/person/GregoryBrown/\">\r\nhttp://advogato.org/person/GregoryBrown/</a>\r\n\r\nIn other interesting news, take a look at this excerpt from the CHANGELOG of Ruport:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n- Fixed a bug in query that made ODBC driver not work at ALL!\r\n  (AFAIK, this bug was ONLY in Ruport 0.2.9)\r\n\r\n- removed render() from the engine and implemented DataSet#render_as()\r\n  example:\r\n  @report = render(data) do |builder| builder.format = :some_format end\r\n  is now: @report = data.render_as(:some_format)\r\n  which takes an optional block that works as before.\r\n\r\n- removed method DataSet#select_field() because it was the same as \r\n  DataSet#select_fields() and of limited utility.\r\n\r\n- added method DataSet#remove_fields and DataSet#remove_fields!\r\n  to make data manipulation easier.\r\n\r\n- added DataSet#empty?\r\n\r\n- added DataSet#clone which will actually deep copy a DataSet.\r\n\r\n- cleaned up incredibly annoying DataSet constructor so you can now pass\r\n  field names and data to new()\r\n\r\n- Report::DataSet now documented\r\n\r\n- added hacks.rb which will include a random collection of potentially\r\n  useful functions.  (Already cool for making Ruport easy to use with irb).</blockquote>\r\n\r\nYep.  Whether or not it\'s finals week, 0.3.0 is getting close to release :)\r\nI just need more DOCUMENTATION, ugh...','Shameless Self Promotion and Ruport News',0,'','publish','open','open','','shameless-self-promotion-and-ruport-news','','','2005-12-13 11:19:57','2005-12-13 15:19:57','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=45',0),(46,2,'2005-12-21 02:06:39','2005-12-21 06:06:39','The bad news is there will be no Ruport 0.3.0\r\n\r\nThe good news is that I have successfully moved to NYC for the winter\r\nbreak and have already begun the process of dedicating the next couple\r\nweeks exclusively to Ruport.\r\n\r\nRuby Reports 0.5.0 is truely going to be a whole new piece of\r\nsoftware, and I\'m very excited about that.  We\'re going to have a\r\nprintable document system, which will feature both an abstract layer\r\nand a direct implementation via PDF... we\'re going to have support for\r\nthe popular ORMs, all the features I claimed would be in 0.3.0, and\r\nmore!\r\n\r\nFor those who want to take an active role in the development of Ruport\r\nin the coming weeks, I\'ve created a basecamp account.  Of course,\r\nafter this sprint is completed, I\'ll announce the release to everyone\r\non the list showing off all the glittering features and whatnot, but\r\nuntil then, if you think you\'ll actively contribute or test the code\r\nor do something else useful like that, email me and I\'ll add you to\r\nthe basecamp project.\r\n\r\nOtherwise, see you all in a couple weeks!','The good and the bad',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-good-and-the-bad','','','2005-12-27 05:53:09','2005-12-27 09:53:09','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=46',0),(47,2,'2005-12-25 22:47:03','2005-12-26 02:47:03','My laptop decided to die today.  This is especially painful news considering my desktop computer is locked away at the University of New Haven and I was planning on using my laptop as my primary rig during the Ruport code fest in the coming week, and the helios codefest thereafter.\r\n\r\nI have found an interim solution (Read: Windows machine) for the short term, but it looks like the $300 I had set aside for donations to a handful of organizations with the word Ruby in them along with a random humanitarian charity will have to wait a couple weeks now until I figure out what to do about the laptop situation. :(\r\n\r\nAt least my FSF associate membership and $100 donation to Gentoo went through before this catastrophe.  That having been said, my next machine will NOT be a mac.\r\n\r\nSo... my development efforts will not be thwarted... however, my spirits are a bit dimmed by the sadness of this whole situation :-/','Some sad news',0,'','publish','open','open','','some-sad-news','','','2005-12-25 22:47:03','2005-12-26 02:47:03','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=47',0),(48,2,'2005-12-26 20:49:49','2005-12-27 00:49:49','Yes. I am on drugs.\r\n\r\nThis will potentially be done by New Years Day.  No, I\'m not joking.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://stonecode.org/ruport-spec.html\">Ruport 0.5.0 specification</a>\r\n\r\nIf you want to stay abreast of the development in the coming week, you\'ll need to make your way to the <a href=\"http://lists.stonecode.org/listinfo.cgi/ruport-stonecode.org\">mailing list</a>.\r\n','Ruport 0.5.0 Specification',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruport-050-specification','','','2005-12-27 05:52:38','2005-12-27 09:52:38','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=48',0),(49,2,'2005-12-27 05:51:25','2005-12-27 09:51:25','Well, thanks to the kindness of Gregory Gibson for purchasing a company laptop a while ago and to the kindness of Robert Canieso for lending me said laptop, Ruport\'s development will not be halted by Windows hell in the coming week.\r\n\r\nI am on a shiny new distribution of Ubuntu Linux, and this is already even better than having to deal with my 95% level of satisfaction with OS X.  Though Ubuntu would probably be the 98% to Gentoo\'s 100%, it\'s enough to keep me very comfortable for the coming week.\r\n\r\nI\'m basically behind a day because of the perils of setting up a new rig, but I will be working overtime until we get back on track.  So, for those of you who love screenshots, here\'s <a href=\"http://stonecode.org/images/ubuntu-screenshot.png\">one</a>','Up and running.',0,'','publish','open','open','','up-and-running','','','2005-12-27 05:51:25','2005-12-27 09:51:25','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=49',0),(50,2,'2005-12-28 14:03:00','2005-12-28 18:03:00','<code>\r\n`ls`.grep(\' \',\'?\').split.sort_by { rand }.each do |song|\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;system \"mplayer #{song}\"\r\nend\r\n</code>','Who needs a fancy media player?',0,'','publish','open','open','','who-needs-a-fancy-media-player','','','2005-12-28 14:04:29','2005-12-28 18:04:29','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=50',0),(51,2,'2005-12-31 12:21:06','2005-12-31 16:21:06','Okay, so if you want to lay out a structure for a document before you use it via ERb or a Ruport script or from within Format::Builder, you now can.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll be able to do your layout in pure ruby, XML, or YAML.  Support for pure ruby was implemented last night. And while sitting here in grand central terminal, I just finished Document::parse_xml :)\r\n\r\nYAML support should be quite easy to add, so expect it added in today as well.  The cool thing is that you\'ll be able to convert between the formats, so if you want to steal someone\'s structure script that was written in XML, you can load it in and dump it out as YAML, or if you need to communicate with some XML process, you can easily do the reverse, too.\r\n\r\nCool?','Ruport\'s Document class now handles XML',0,'','publish','open','open','','ruports-document-class-now-handles-xml','','','2005-12-31 12:23:00','2005-12-31 16:23:00','',0,'http://www.stonecode.org/blog/?p=51',0);
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+:name: Greg
+:friend: Rob
+:job: Programmer

data/test/tc_builder.rb

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+require "test/unit"
+require "ruport"
+class TestBuilder < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  include Ruport
+  def setup
+    data = DataSet.new
+    data.fields = %w[ col1 col2 col3 ]
+    data.default = ""; data << %w[ a b c ]; data << %w[ d e f ]
+    @builder = Format::Builder.new( data )
+  end
+
+  def test_render_html
+    @builder.format = :html
+    assert_equal("<table>\n  <tr>\n    <th>col1</th><th>col2</th>" +
+                 "<th>col3</th>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                 "  <tr>\n    <td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                 "  <tr>\n    <td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                 "</table>", @builder.render )
+  end
+
+  def test_render_text
+    @builder.format = :text
+    assert_equal( "fields: ( col1, col2, col3 )\n" +
+                  "row0: ( a, b, c )\n" +
+                  "row1: ( d, e, f )\n", @builder.render )
+  end
+  
+  def test_render_csv
+    @builder.format = :csv
+    assert_equal("col1,col2,col3\na,b,c\nd,e,f\n", @builder.render)
+  end
+
+  def test_partial_rendering
+    my_data = DataSet.new
+    my_data.fields = %w[ col1 col2 col3 ]
+    [ %w[ a b c], %w[ d e f ], %w[ g h i ], %w[ j k l ] ].each do |row|
+      my_data << row
+    end
+    
+    my_builder = Format::Builder.new( my_data )
+    my_builder.range = 1..2
+   
+    my_builder.format = :csv
+    assert_equal("col1,col2,col3\nd,e,f\ng,h,i\n", my_builder.render)
+      
+    my_builder.format = :html
+    assert_equal( "<table>\n  <tr>\n    <th>col1</th><th>col2</th>"+
+                  "<th>col3</th>\n  </tr>\n"+
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>g</td><td>h</td><td>i</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "</table>", my_builder.render )
+
+   my_builder.format = :text
+   assert_equal( "fields: ( col1, col2, col3 )\n" +
+                 "row1: ( d, e, f )\nrow2: ( g, h, i )\n",
+                 my_builder.render )
+  end
+
+  def test_complete_output
+    @builder.output_type = :complete
+    @builder.format      = :html
+    assert_equal( "<html><head><title></title></head><body>\n"+
+                  "<table>\n  <tr>\n    <th>col1</th><th>col2</th>" +
+                  "<th>col3</th>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "</table></body></html>\n", @builder.render )
+  end
+
+  def test_header
+    @builder.header = "This is a sample header"
+    @builder.format = :csv
+    assert_equal( "This is a sample header\n\n" +
+                  "col1,col2,col3\na,b,c\nd,e,f\n", @builder.render )
+    @builder.format = :html
+    assert_equal( "<table>\n  <tr>\n    <th colspan=3>"+
+                  "This is a sample header</th>\n  </tr>\n"+
+                  "  <tr>\n    <th>col1</th><th>col2</th>" +
+                  "<th>col3</th>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "</table>", @builder.render )
+    @builder.format = :text
+    assert_equal( "This is a sample header\n" +
+                  "fields: ( col1, col2, col3 )\n" +
+                  "row0: ( a, b, c )\n" +
+                  "row1: ( d, e, f )\n", @builder.render )
+
+    
+  end
+
+  def test_footer
+    @builder.footer = "This is a sample footer"
+    @builder.format = :csv
+    assert_equal( "col1,col2,col3\na,b,c\nd,e,f\n\n"+
+                  "This is a sample footer\n", @builder.render )
+    @builder.format = :html
+    assert_equal( "<table>\n  <tr>\n    <th>col1</th><th>col2</th>" +
+                  "<th>col3</th>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td>\n  </tr>\n" +
+                  "  <tr>\n    <th colspan=3>"+
+                  "This is a sample footer</th>\n  </tr>\n"+
+                  "</table>", @builder.render )
+    @builder.format = :text
+    assert_equal( "fields: ( col1, col2, col3 )\n" +
+                  "row0: ( a, b, c )\n" +
+                  "row1: ( d, e, f )\n" +
+                  "This is a sample footer\n", @builder.render )
+
+  end
+  
+end
+
+
+  

data/test/tc_config.rb

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+require "test/unit"
+require "ruport"
+
+class TestConfiguration < Test::Unit::TestCase
+
+  def setup
+    Ruport::Config.init!
+  end
+  
+  def test_dsn_defaults
+    assert_equal("ruport", Ruport::Config.default_source.dsn)
+    assert_equal("",       Ruport::Config.default_source.user)
+    assert_equal("",       Ruport::Config.default_source.password)    
+  end
+
+  def test_mail_defaults
+    assert_equal(nil, Ruport::Config.default_mailer)
+  end
+
+  def test_init
+     assert_equal([:default],Ruport::Config.sources.keys)
+     Ruport::Config.source :bar, :apples => :bananas, :dsn => "ruport"
+     Ruport::Config.sources.each_key do |key|
+       assert([:default,:bar].include?(key))
+     end
+     assert_equal([],Ruport::Config.sources.keys - [:default,:bar])
+     assert_equal([],[:default,:bar] - Ruport::Config.sources.keys)
+     Ruport::Config.init!
+     assert_equal([:default],Ruport::Config.sources.keys)
+  end
+
+  def test_new_defaults
+   Ruport::Config.source :default, :dsn      => "dbi:mysql:test",
+                                   :user     => "root",
+                                   :password => ""
+   assert_equal("dbi:mysql:test", Ruport::Config.default_source.dsn)
+   assert_equal("root", Ruport::Config.default_source.user)
+   assert_equal("", Ruport::Config.default_source.password)
+  end
+
+end