WordPress 2.6.1 is out. Reading feeds on my flight from IND to PHX this afternoon I ran across the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin (shouldn’t that be the Automattic?). Nice, but I’d like to plug my approach to managing WordPress upgrades, which I think is even easier, assuming you’re OK with minimal command-line interaction.
First, [...]
I’ve owned my MacBook for about 18 months now, which is coming close to a record for me. I was looking at replacing it with a new laptop—preferably something running Ubuntu that doesn’t totally look like ass. I started looking and saw things I liked from both Dell and System 76 (I really [...]
I’m late with this (typical these days), but at OSCON a couple weeks ago Microsoft announced they’re supporting the Apache Foundation. Bruce Perens has an editorial in Datamation about what the angle may be. Bruce posits that the primary motivation is publicity. That Microsoft has realized open source is here to stay and sees [...]
What were they thinking? I bet VB is far easier than this.
— “Exercises In Masochism 1: Writing OpenOffice.org Macros”
I said it two years ago. And all I can say is “plus one, my friend; plus one.”
I’m in Portland, Oregon this week for OSCON 2008. Asheesh and I are speaking tomorrow on ccREL and liblicense.
Things I’m hoping to see this week:
lots of attention paid to identi.ca, not just as an alternative to Twitter but as a first step towards truly open services,
lots of discussion about how free software can enable [...]
