Displaying 91 To 120 Of 139 Comments Yeah, i have been wanting to put the iPhone app to good use. I need to setup my new theme to handle these small asides differently than the other posts. » Posted By JLeuze On July 1, 2009 @ 12:08 AM State Of The Word From WordCamp Dallas Yeah, I was glad to hear that bbPress 1.0 is getting close. » Posted By JLeuze On June 28, 2009 @ 6:48 PM @Ryan – Yeah, I’m all for a TavernCamp as well, especially if it’s not $70 :) Streaming video shouldn’t be as much of a problem from a home or office connection, rather than sketchy wifi from a convention room. But I’d be fine with just audio too, round table discussions, like an extended, organized version of a typical podcast after-party! And maybe something a little more robust and permanent than Skype or Talkshoe chat, an install of P2 perhaps? Oh, and don’t forget the tshirts, even if we have to buy them ourselves off Zazzle or something ;) » Posted By JLeuze On June 25, 2009 @ 2:25 AM Yeah, I didn’t see a price on the homepage, and given the cost of an actual WordCamp, I just assumed that it was free…silly me! I’m willing to withhold judgment for now, the caliber of speakers should speak volumes about the whether or not it’s a legit event. But if they can actually make $70k off this, then you should totally throw a TavernCamp Jeffro, and retire to Necker Island… » Posted By JLeuze On June 24, 2009 @ 11:04 PM WPWeekly Episode 59 – Roundtable Featuring Peter Westwood It’s too bad you couldn’t get Sam on last night, hopefully we’ll get to hear from him soon. According to Wikipedia: The first WordCamp conference in July 2006 was pulled together in 3 weeks, in the style of BarCamp, attracting over 300 people to the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. » Posted By JLeuze On June 20, 2009 @ 9:48 AM Uh oh, I better bring my A game! Props to the sponsors for all the awesome prizes that they have contributed. » Posted By JLeuze On July 3, 2009 @ 10:38 AM @jeffro – It’s not a bug, it’s a feature, right? ;) » Posted By JLeuze On June 20, 2009 @ 12:06 AM Sweet, hopefully I’ll get some more competition now! » Posted By JLeuze On June 19, 2009 @ 11:58 PM I generally opt for simplicity and just check the URL to get the ID when I need it rather than adding yet another plugin ;) But there is at least one plugin that does this, Reveal IDs for WP Admin, that I have used when working with other designers who want an easier way to get these IDs. It seems like they added a lot of flexibility in the backend for the end user with 2.8, it seems like the option of IDs would be a reasonable option to add as well. » Posted By JLeuze On June 12, 2009 @ 11:01 AM My WordCamp Chicago Experience Wow, my drive was longer, but cheaper too. I think the tolls only cost like $8, but there were like eight of them on the round trip, more annoying than expensive. But next time I’ll definitely consider taking the Amtrak and getting some rest on the way so I have more energy for pizza, steak, and the other stuff I was too beat for ;) I was impressed by the breakfast spread on both days too. The wifi seemed ok for me most of the time, but you could tell the quality of the network by the number of Tweets. It would be interesting to see a graph of the #wcchicago tag over the weekend to see just when the spikes were. I also liked Micah’s presentation the most I think, especially about keeping expectations! Just watched his presentation at Big Omaha, really dug that too. Of course it was great to hear the state of the word in person. I found it interesting that Matt said “the goal of WordPress is to be invisible”. That is one of the things that drew me to WordPress. With other platforms like Drupal or PHP-Nuke back in the day, unless the designer really does a great job, it is pretty easy to spot what it is built on. It just seems easier to break out of that mold with WordPress to create something truly original. » Posted By JLeuze On June 11, 2009 @ 11:56 PM WPWeekly Episode 57 – Live From Chicago I had a great time at WordCamp Chicago, meeting other WordPressers and learning more about WordPress! It was interesting hearing more about the blogging side of things since I am coming into WordPress as a designer. But I definitely felt everyone’s pain on Twitter, a developer’s track or an unconference room would be a welcome addition next year. It sounds like there are some initial plans to have a WordCamp Minneapolis this year or at least start a meetup for the Twin Cities. If any other readers or listeners happen to be in the area, check out the Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group. I’m off to start working on those 100 submissions to the WordPress Showcase… » Posted By JLeuze On June 10, 2009 @ 2:36 AM WPWeekly Episode 56 – Back On Track @Jeffro – LOL, yeah you gotta get that scoreboard up, shame some of the other listeners into putting up a challenge :) » Posted By JLeuze On June 1, 2009 @ 4:10 AM Though it was before my time, it looks like WordPress 1.0 was when “cruft-free” permalinks were introduced. Be sure to give us a tweet if you end up doing an impromptu show next Friday, I’m sure I’m not the only one who’d love the chance to check WPWeekly live ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 31, 2009 @ 9:34 PM Lots Of News From WordCamp San Francisco WordPress.org will soon have a community center powered by BuddyPress to help propel their new community reorganization. Awesome, I hope this means that all the different profiles on WordPress.org will be combined, and that the support forum gets some extra functionality so that it is easier to manage. » Posted By JLeuze On May 31, 2009 @ 1:17 PM @Brad – That’s mighty generous of you Jeff :) » Posted By JLeuze On May 30, 2009 @ 5:57 PM @Brad – Do you think that the drinks will still be in the house? ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 29, 2009 @ 12:14 AM I’m really looking forward to WordCamp Chicago too, I haven’t been to one before and this sounds like a great place to start! The really terrifying part of driving in the city is what they’ll charge you to park! Like I said before, I’m totally going to stick with a motel and ride the L, if I could afford it I’d take the Amtrak down and skip driving altogether :) Timing could probably save you from the biggest headaches though, driving around the city in the afternoon is probably way less hassle than during rush hour or on a Friday night. If you get Brian on the show this week, maybe you can hit hit him up for a ride, see if he’ll swing out by Gary and pick you up ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 28, 2009 @ 1:56 AM @Chip Bennett – Don’t hate the player, hate the game… :P » Posted By JLeuze On May 25, 2009 @ 2:34 PM @Chip Bennett – Did you just call Richard Stallman a fascist? Careful, somebody’s gonna kick over a table… ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 25, 2009 @ 12:00 PM First TalkPress Forum Sees Light Of Day @Jeffro – Yeah that’s a good point, if they can make VideoPress work well, they could probably offer TalkPress at a similar price point to WordPress.com users. I just hope they use what they learn and earn to make bbPress a real contender! » Posted By JLeuze On May 21, 2009 @ 12:08 AM It’s too bad that they couldn’t open it up to the average user. But if these high profile paid users means that they have more resources to devote to further improving bbPress, that would be great! » Posted By JLeuze On May 20, 2009 @ 10:09 AM That’s a cool business card, I think people will be hard pressed to forget about “the guy with the beer biz card”! I just got my first business cards recently too, they have been so handy. Mine just have my ugly mug on ‘em though, my avatar is the only real branding I have. They do have a lot of white space, I’m a sucker for white space, but you’ve got plenty of “amber space”, it’s hard to top that… Glad to hear you are going to be in full blogger mode at WordCamp, I’ll be looking forward to your coverage! » Posted By JLeuze On May 15, 2009 @ 11:28 PM Great advice Michael, I wish more people would do their research before asking for help, or at least be more thorough when asking questions. As a support volunteer, I think this would be great instructions to follow when seeking help from anyone, not just a theme or plugin developer. » Posted By JLeuze On May 9, 2009 @ 1:43 PM WPWeekly Episode 54 – Warmup For WordCamp Toronto @Jeffro – LOL, no worries! I gotta keep my points up :) » Posted By JLeuze On May 22, 2009 @ 9:36 PM If no one else wants an easy trivia point, I’ll snap it up. It looks like WordPress evolved into a full-on CMS with the release of 1.5. It sounds like David is roughing it at WordCamp Toronto, if I make it to a WordCamp I better bring some trail mix and a mobile Net connection, just in case ;) » Posted By JLeuze On May 9, 2009 @ 9:10 AM A Question For Premium Theme Authors This is a really gray area. I understand the concerns of theme developers, but there is a big difference between outright theft and artistic or professional collaboration, regardless of the letter of the law. I have received copies of commercial themes from clients or colleagues that I have worked with on projects. They may send me a theme to customize, and then I’d send it back. I’m not exactly using that theme myself on a live site, or maybe even keeping it. But of course multiple copies end up existing in email archives. An even bigger problem arises with when collaborating with another designer halfway across the continent. They upload a commercial theme, I download it, make some changes, backup the changes, and upload it. They download that copy, change it, back it up, upload it again. Do that a few dozen times over the course of a project, and before you know it, there are hundreds of copies of the theme lurking around even though it is only installed once, or maybe a sandbox and a live version. In my opinion, if the copies of the theme are being used strictly for development, it’s a non-issue. However, if the copies are being used on live sites, then that’s a pretty nasty thing to do. But for better or worse, when you’re dealing with digital products, you have to expect a certain amount of loss in your business model, it’s inevitable, just ask the record companies! » Posted By JLeuze On May 2, 2009 @ 3:28 AM WPWeekly Episode 51 – TalkPress And More Come on, someone must know the answer to the trivia question, I don’t want to be the only freeloader at WordCamp Chicago! I for one hope that TalkPress really kick-starts the bbPress project. If you do a whois on talkpress.org, Matt is camping on that URL as well. I wonder if he is just protecting the brand, or if they are thinking about rebranding bbPress and moving it over to talkpress.org? At the very least, I hope that bbPress being a little more active results in bbpress.org getting a facelift. Now that even wordcamp.org has a fresh new look, bbpress.org is really starting to look like the youngest sibling, stuck with hand-me-downs! » Posted By JLeuze On April 19, 2009 @ 1:10 AM Theme Repository In Need Of An Upgrade? It’s too bad that the quality of the themes in extend isn’t so hot. Almost all of the best plugins are in extend though. I think this illustrates how different the business models are between themes and plugins, or maybe programmers are generally more committed to Open Source than designers. The quality of the theme directory is slowly improving though with the addition of themes like I would like to see some more quality control as well. I think it would be bad for the community if they turned people away because their themes “looked bad”. But if they enforced a higher standard of quality for the code, I think that the end result would be better looking themes. And they need a better way to filter the bad ones and promote the good ones, just going of the number of downloads doesn’t seem to be doing the trick! » Posted By JLeuze On April 12, 2009 @ 4:52 PM WPWeekly Episode 50 – Interview With Cathy Perkins @Jeffro – Yeah, 100 episodes will be a real accomplishment, better have a party for that milestone! It would be interesting to hear from Lorelle about her experiences on WordPress.com specifically. I have thought about doing some casual blogging on WordPress.com myself, just to learn more about that particular aspect of the WordPress community. And of course buy a few fancy upgrades and contribute to WordPress a bit more. ;) » Posted By JLeuze On April 14, 2009 @ 10:00 PM Congratulations on hitting number fifty Jeffro! It was neat to hear about Cathy’s experiences with new users as I myself do quite a bit of training and support of new users. Maybe you should get a WordPress.com blogger on the show sometime. It would be interesting to get the perspective of a regular end user that is just concentrated on blogging and not tinkering like most of us ;) » Posted By JLeuze On April 11, 2009 @ 5:04 PMComments Posted By JLeuze
Alex King’s Carrington and Brian Gardner’s Shades of Blue (and Justin’s own contribution). Hopefully more talented designers will contribute in the future.
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