New Competencies for Theme Designers

31 Mar 2008 – 1:26
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Comments (11)

Wordpress 2.5's new image uploader solves the longstanding bug of using deprecated XHTML attributes to float images (align="left", etc.), rather than it being done in CSS. This is handled by applying classes to the image when it's inserted into the post, rather than via inline CSS. This ...

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Graded.

29 Mar 2008 – 9:22
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Comments (2)

I wouldn't say up-graded, but WordPress 2.5 is definitely different. I feel the need to punish myself thusly, since wordpress is now my day job, besides my 'hobby' of supporting the themes I've developed. I've been playing with the SVN upgrades for a month or so now, ...

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Wordpress 2.3.3 Spam Exploit

27 Mar 2008 – 10:24
By adam | Posted in blogging | Comments (1)

If you run a wordpress blog, you should be reading Blogsecurity. This is the feed I use, that only includes the wordpress advisories. I think it's a damn shame that this feed isn't included in the wordpress planet that's syndicated across everyone's dashboard. Security is ...

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Sarah Marshall is evil

25 Mar 2008 – 7:09
By adam | Posted in geekery, soapboxing | Comments (0)

Chicago's been overrun with the faux-ARG billboards about Sarah Marshall, which point to the faux-blog for one of the characters. From there, you'll land on the site for the trailer:


The most shocking thing is that they're not kidding: they're actually ...

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OpenID PSA

20 Mar 2008 – 10:48
By adam | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

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