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- Today is a giftNovember 7 2008
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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
- Official WordPress Logos and Fan ArtSeptember 22 2008
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I know that Matt Mullenweg and Matt Thomas die a little each time they see WordPress fan art that uses a faux logo. I only notice the chubby W because I’ve been edumacated.
MT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.
WordPress Logos and WordPress Buttons
There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in various official colors and sizes. The official WordPress colors are given in a variety of code systems. Pantone 7468 anyone?
Fan Art
The fan art page could use some fresh contributions.
These naturalized WordPress logos would be nice additions:
WordPress India Independe
- Interested in Freeing Yourself from the TypePad Trap?September 18 2008
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My co-worker Noel Jackson, tired of hearing me whine about the Six Apart TypePad Trap, has created a WordPress importer mashing together the MT formatted export file (missing permalinks) and the broken TypePad AtomPub (missing comments and trackbacks). We are currently testing this on WordPress.com before polishing the code up and sharing it. We are looking for some TypePad customers to help us test it — it’s completely harmless, read-only.
If you are interested, let me know and we can set up a private blog on WordPress.com for you to import into. Bonus is that you will have a backup of your blog ready to go live if anything ever befalls TypePad.
This importer wouldn’t be possible without the heroic effort Ronald Heft Jr put into creating a TypePad AtomPub importer for WordPress — it’s not his fault TypePad still doesn’t have a way to export your full blog.
What’s an AtomPub? While working on this importer Noel contacted TypePad support only to have them tell him they don’t know what AtomPub is, and that they don’t support it.
- First step in theming A Fool’s Wisdom blog?September 5 2008
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Inspired by the incredible time I had at An Event Apart San Francisco, I’ve decided to learn a little bit of CSS to actually theme this blog. What should I do first?
The last couple of years I’ve had no real personalized experience on this blog at foolswisdom.com. Partly, because it greatly eases testing of the core WordPress software, partly to test Sandbox as it’s updated, and mostly because I’ve been too lazy, and busy helping other people.
Although, numerous times people have generously pointed out that “CSS is missing from your blog”, I’m surprised I haven’t received more nasty comments and emails about how offensive it really is.
What should I do first?
- Google Chrome’s Greatest Challenge? Open Source Development and Support of a Consumer Desktop ProductSeptember 3 2008
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I’ve seen a lot of fantastic articles about what Google’s beta web browser Chrome is and isn’t, will and won’t be.
My good friend Chris Messina wrote a very interesting article, which in many ways comes down to a large, influential part of the web development community being disenfranchised from Mozilla.
Doom! Of course John Lilly is playing cool on the outside, because they have long fought giants.1 Mozilla’s ability to combat goliaths, and live with fear and uncertain contribute to them being the best browser development community there is.
Although Mozilla is the best browser community, like Chris Messina, I consider myself part of the disenfranchised community, tired of the Firefox is the web mentality. But I will readily admit nobody has a better track record than Mozilla for open source consumer software development.2
As impatient consumers, particularly impatient geek consumers, we all want our pet issues addressed right NOW. One of the greatest achievements of Mozill