Displaying 31 To 60 Of 139 Comments WPWeekly Episode 81 – Interview With Jacob Goldman Another great interview Jeffro, Jacob was an interesting guest. WordCamp Boston sounds like a lot of fun I hope some of the sessions end up on WordPress TV. As for the slogan, in the first IRC meetup for bbPress, Matt said “it’s like the unofficial WP slogan: we suck less with every release”, which is a pretty cool slogan: http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/ I’m excited to see that development on bbPress is getting active again and that so many talented people are stepping up to help. Can’t wait to see what they have in store for bbPress. » Posted By JLeuze On December 16, 2009 @ 4:39 PM WPWeekly Episode 80 – Interview With Raphael Mudge @Kim – I love french vanilla and new york style vanilla. Ooo, pumpkin, I forgot all about that. My wife made us some awesome homemade pumpkin ice cream last summer. :) @Jeffro – Chunky Monkey is my favorite Ben & Jerry’s. OK, now I need to take an afternoon snack break… » Posted By JLeuze On December 2, 2009 @ 4:03 PM @Kim – I forgot to share my favorite flavor of ice cream, vanilla. There’s nothing like a rootbeer float on a hot summer day! Anyone else have a more exotic ice cream preference? » Posted By JLeuze On December 2, 2009 @ 1:53 PM @Raphael Mudge -@Raphael Mudge – I’m sure some talented coder will scratch that itch! I can see how AtD could improve the quality of comments on a blog. Could it flag comment like “great post” as a fragment and suggest they write at least one sentence? ;) » Posted By JLeuze On December 2, 2009 @ 1:47 PM @Jeffro – They’ve got ATD working with Intense Debate? That’s pretty cool, another advantage for ID. » Posted By JLeuze On December 2, 2009 @ 12:52 PM @Jeffro – LOL, typo. When is ATD going to have a plugin for comments? » Posted By JLeuze On December 2, 2009 @ 12:46 PM Yeah I think spellcheckers and Google have ruined most people’s basic writing skills. I know that like Jeff, mine have gone downhill since I started using computers. There are words I have always struggled to spell, but that list has grown in recent years. The line I try to draw is that even if I don’t know how to spell some words, I try to at least recognize when they are spelled wrong so that I can correct them with the magic of the Internet :) I think my skills haven’t atrophied too terribly, but After the Deadline has me paranoid, I’m going to check it out and see just how much I suck these days! According to the ATD blog, Raphael’s favorite ice cream flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip: » Posted By JLeuze On December 2, 2009 @ 12:44 PM WPWeekly Episode 79 – Alex King And WPHelpCenter @Jeffro – Definitely, I’d like to see WordPress.org use BuddyPress to place more emphasis on the community and facilitate things like groups for specific projects that need more attention. I think when it comes to involving the the community and building a functioning organization, a lot could be learned from projects like Drupal and Ubuntu. » Posted By JLeuze On November 29, 2009 @ 1:50 PM @Jeffro – It sounds like WordPress.org needs to start eating more of its own dogfood! » Posted By JLeuze On November 29, 2009 @ 1:40 PM @Jeffro – LOL, the early bird catches the worm! Yeah, it’s another tricky question. The codex is quite separate, being on a subdomain, but the forums and extend seem a bit more integrated, being in subdirectories. I’m guessing they’re not rocking Drupal or anything, maybe Matt’s kicking it old school with b2? My best guess would be that WordPress.org is primarily running on WordPress MU, with the other sections powered by other apps hanging off of that. » Posted By JLeuze On November 18, 2009 @ 12:04 PM The Alex King interview was really interesting. I’ve used the Carrington theme on a website for a client. I appreciate the concept of Carrington, but in practice, it wasn’t for me. I don’t really like the way that the granular structure creates so many extra files and folders. It seems to make things more complicated than it needs to be. But I did try out Carrington like a year ago and there wasn’t much documentation, it looks like there is more documentation available now, which could make using Carrington simpler. WordPress.org is a big site, it’s hard to judge which sections are the largest. The support forum must have the most pages, followed by all the plugin, theme, and idea pages in Extend. The forums and Extend are largely powered by bbPress I believe, so bbPress must be the platform for at least a good chunk of the site. The Codex is another big section of the site, and that is powered by MediaWiki. I wonder if the Codex would ever be migrated to WordPress if there was a robust wiki plugin? My guess is that the rest of the website is powered by WordPress MU rather than the standard version of WordPress. And of course the latest addition to WordPress.org is Profiles, which is run on MU and BuddyPress. I’m looking forward to this section growing, hopefully BuddyPress will play a more important role on wp.org as the focus on the community expands. » Posted By JLeuze On November 18, 2009 @ 11:36 AM WPWeekly Episode 78 – CoPress And The FairField Mirror @Jeffro – What can I say, we were thinking too hard, thought you were throwing a curveball ;) » Posted By JLeuze On November 17, 2009 @ 7:09 PM @Ryan – Yeah, I wasn’t sure if he meant the first forum to not “misuse” tables, or the first to not use tables at all, so I went with the latter. But it is a pretty tricky question, lots of right answers ;) » Posted By JLeuze On November 5, 2009 @ 8:20 PM @Kim – Yeah, I thought Vanilla would be a good guess too, Mark has been a busy beaver lately, Vanilla is looking pretty sharp. » Posted By JLeuze On November 5, 2009 @ 12:13 AM Wow, Jeffro stumped me on this one, I’m not really sure which forum software was first. bbPress is almost table-free, but not quite. I remember struggling with tables in a phpBB 2.0 theme I think, and 3.0 is table-free, so I’m going to have to guess that phpBB was the first… This was an interesting episode, that sounded like one epic struggle of a migration! Makes me glad that most platforms are a lot easier than to migrate to WordPress, but I’m sure it was a real weight lifted off of their shoulders once they made the switch. I hope that more colleges follow suit and switch to WordPress or another Open Source platform. I taught at a community college for a bit, and their web situation was pretty much the same as the college that I went to: old, outdated, overpriced, and underwhelming. It’s too bad, with all of that free brainpower and software, schools should be up on the latest ideas, especially in a media or technology department, but I found out that institutional monoliths are hard to budge. » Posted By JLeuze On November 4, 2009 @ 11:13 PM Quick Update On My Where Abouts I know how you feel, I’ve been buried in work too lately. Never have enough time to contribute and participate in the community as much as I’d like to or work on any of those personal projects. I don’t envy your early mornings one bit, but it sure makes 7am sound a lot better to me! Thanks for all your hard work Jeffro, looking forward to seeing the redesign and hearing about WordCamp New York. » Posted By JLeuze On November 2, 2009 @ 10:07 PM That’s too bad that David is passing the mic, he has always brought another valuable perspective to the show. I agree with Conorp that a female perspective could be interesting. I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding an awesome cohost! » Posted By JLeuze On October 2, 2009 @ 1:51 PM WPWeekly Episode 74 – SimplePie Disappears – Leaves Crumbs Behind I don’t want to go any near this latest WordPress debate, but I appreciate you guys covering both perspectives fairly. This trivia question is a little tricky, it looks like the big feature in 2.3 was tags? Only significant template tag I see is “the_tags”… » Posted By JLeuze On September 30, 2009 @ 12:29 PM Have a great vacation Jeff, you’ve more than earned it! I’ll keep a fire extinguisher handy, but if we run out of beer while you’re gone I can’t make any promises… » Posted By JLeuze On September 19, 2009 @ 11:54 PM WPWeekly Episode 71 – Running A Business Around WordPress @Kim – Yeah, I’ve got to get up early during the week too. I’m not sure how long they were at it, but it sounds like it went until the wee hours ;) » Posted By JLeuze On September 9, 2009 @ 2:06 PM @Kim – Did you stick around for the marathon after-show? » Posted By JLeuze On September 9, 2009 @ 1:40 PM It’s good to hear that Shopp is doing well and that selling a GPL plugin is an effective business model. That was an interesting point he made about the cost of Shopp being an advantage because it kept the number if users seeking support to a managable level. It seems like a sane and responsible approach that benefits the users and the developers. I’d hate to see every really good WordPress plugin be commercial, but it make sense for mission critical functionality like eccomerce. And it’s only fair, by it’s very nature anyone developing a site with a shopping cart should hopefully be generating revenue, so there’s no reason a bit shouldn’t flow back to the developers that enables those transactions in the first place. I agree that WordPress.org should have have a commercial plugin page to mirror the theme one. It’s probably not really needed as much due to the number of commercial plugins. But it’s the fair thing to do, and it sets the right tone that responsible commercial developers who share their code and support the community are recognized and get a little link love :) I bet after last weekend Robert Scoble, WordPress.com’s first VIP, wishes he was still getting warm towels and cold drinks from Matt and his crew… » Posted By JLeuze On September 9, 2009 @ 1:06 PM Plugin Repository And Commercial Plugins I dunno, Akismet seems like a non-issue. How is it any different than a Flickr or Vimeo plugin? You can’t use those without an account, and they have free and paid accounts, just like Akismet… » Posted By JLeuze On September 4, 2009 @ 12:17 PM @Jeffro – Yeah, I have confidence in the WordPress.org team being able to keep the repository clean. I don’t know if Apple is lax, or if it’s the sheer number of apps, but they don’t have the best track record in that department! » Posted By JLeuze On September 4, 2009 @ 12:03 AM I’ve spent too much time in the app store with my iPod, the thought of lite plugins scares me… I know by “lite version” they mean plugins like WP e-Commerce, which is fine by me because it is fully functional right out of the box. I think if the free version works as-is and comes with more than 50% of the functionality, that’s ok, but I’d hate to see it digress to the point of the app store! » Posted By JLeuze On September 3, 2009 @ 11:11 PM WPWeekly Episode 70 – Talking BuddyPress With Andy Peatling I’m with David when it comes to BuddyPress. It looks really cool, and I’m excited to check it out when I have some free time. But I just haven’t found any projects to use it on yet, I think you need a decently active community to get the most value of of a BuddyPress install. You almost had me stumped this week Jeffro, and it’s still a bit of a trick question! Archive.org has two samples from October 31st 2005, so i went with the later one that says “45,390 spams caught so far, 8,626 so far today”. That probably sounded like a pretty scary number of spam on Halloween, to think that 4 years later Akismet would be blocking over 2 million of the nasty lil buggers every day! http://web.archive.org/web/20051031024125/http://akismet.com/ » Posted By JLeuze On September 3, 2009 @ 8:19 AM WPWeekly Episode 69 – Grava what @Jeffro – No points for last week? It’s ok Conorp, I’ll sleep in a bit the next few weekends to give you some time to catch up :) » Posted By JLeuze On August 24, 2009 @ 5:04 PM I really like Gravatar, it is one less thing for me to worry about! If I have users uploading their own avatars or other files, then I need to make sure that I’m backing that up in addition to my database and the files that I am uploading. In the past I have had to go digging to save my user’s avatars after a migration or upgrade, and if I can avoid that headache, why not? One of the values that I think Gravatar adds is that it does it well. Sure it would be easy to provide the basic functionality of avatars on your own server. But fancy sites like Facebook have spoiled users into expecting that they can upload a high rez file and have it compress on the fly, or crop their headshot from a a group photo. So Gravatar helps provide users with the functionality that they are probably used to. But I think that the biggest advantage of Gravatar is that it reduces friction. I think most people that are on the Net a lot get pretty apathetic about creating yet another user account and avoid doing so when they can. So the quicker that I can get a user signed up or better yet interacting right away without signing up, the better. I am sure that Automattic is very reluctant to let a simple service like Gravatar become bloated, but I’d love if it included a bit more data, so that I didn’t have to provide my website, social, and chat info every time. I don’t even need the grail of a unified login ID everywhere, that kinda scares me anyways, but a simple digital driver’s license or student ID that contained my avatar, contact info, and a few other pertinent details would be excellent. In the SitePoint Forums, Matt said if he were to start another project, it might involve “synchronization, or some sort of contextual text analysis for grammar http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4347107&postcount=20 » Posted By JLeuze On August 22, 2009 @ 1:11 PM Have You Enjoyed Your Stay At The Tavern So Far? @Jeffro – Ah, then let’s also raise our glasses to Kim and Kit for a job well done! » Posted By JLeuze On August 24, 2009 @ 10:21 PM You always keep the glasses clean and the peanuts fresh, what more could we ask for? :) I really like that you include coverage of other projects that I don’t have time to follow as closely as I’d like to, like bbPress and BuddyPress, so keep that coming! And of course the interviews are always great, you can never have too many of those. You’ve been doing an awesome job Jeffro, the Tavern is everything that I wish my local community newspaper was, you should give yourself a raise! » Posted By JLeuze On August 22, 2009 @ 3:22 AMComments Posted By JLeuze
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and spell-checking. Maybe something with anti-spam again like Akismet.”
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