09 September 2010

The Ruby Reflector

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By jeff of The Queue Blog 2 days ago.
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Premium WordPress Themes | Elegant Themes - via elegantthemes.com Looks like another good, affordable source of wordpress themes. ...

Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Schedule - Confreaks, LLC - via confreaks.net Lots of "coming soon" videos, but they have a link to Glenn Vanderburg's "Real Software Engineering" that got a bunch of positive press on twitter during the ruby #ho ...

How I Used Amazon's Mechanical Turk…

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By Julie Cameron of MetaSpring Blog 2 days ago.
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…range from $ 599 to $ 3900 and include an optimized WordPress installation , design template integration , and content integration . Upper tier packages also include custom web design , WordPress training , and basic search engine optimization ( SEO). For more information or to purchase a package, visit MetaSpring's package details page at http://metaspring.com/packages.php .

About MetaSpring, LLC: MetaSpring is a Digital Marketing Consultancy that …

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By jeff of The Queue Blog 7 days ago.
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WordPress › WordPress MU Domain Mapping « WordPress Plugins - This plugin allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain.<br />

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via wordpress.org If I flip on the MU stuff it'll be to play with this ...

Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App - Great "cheat sheet" on some metrics to track (and how to track them) for your saas app

Home …

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By Klampaeckel of till's blog 7 days ago.
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…I'd rather recommend my clients to get a Tumblr account instead of installing Wordpress on their server, and getting hacked a week or so later.

Customized themes

For those of us with slightly less design skills, there are commercial themes available, for the rest, they may use customize any theme available.

Customized themes are simple and to be kept simple for the most part. So for example a sidebar with the latest posts is not something the theme allows you to do and while I value …

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By Jake Scruggs of Jake Scruggs 13 days ago.
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PHP and Ruby living together: Webrick serving up WordPress. You are one weird dude @ tenderlove # rubykaigi

Webrick serving up PHP WordPress. Think about that for a moment.

Making some last minute changes to my # rubykaigi presentation: " Speedy Tests" Come see it tomorrow at 13:30 in room 200

Hey, I just found out I have an hour time slot when I had thought I was going to present for 30 minutes. I guess the crowd is going to get some bonus metric_fu coverage. …

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By Joey of Global Nerdy 16 days ago.
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Popular open source web applications such as WordPress

A system that installs and configures web tools and technologies for you

Christian will walk you through the whole experience from start to finish, demonstrate how easy it is to deploy a WordPress blog using WebMatrix.

Want to get your hands on WebMatrix so you can get a head start or follow along with Christian's demonstration? Download the installer for the WebMatrix beta and get started right away!

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By Thomas Fuchs of mir.aculo.us 28 days ago.
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I use WordPress, and I use Twitter, so here's how to add the awesome new offical Tweet Button to your WordPress blog: Inside your Main Index template (index.php), add the first line inside the posts loops (above/below/whereever you want it!). You can add additional parameters, and don't forget to change the data-via attribute! Then, add [...]

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By christyjohn of The Code Pilgrim's Progress 29 days ago.
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…surprised me. In a Skype chat one of my colleague gave me a link to a small plugin to WordPress. ‘ Performance Optimization: Order Styles and Javascript ‘. I clicked the link and when I saw the authors name I was amazed. It was him.

Wow!

That was the first expression I had. Even before downloading the plugin, installing and checking it or even before going through the code I was amazed and elated by the fact of having an open source contributor nearby. My feelings towards …

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By chris of Binary Code 1 month ago.
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I've neglected this site and blog for quite some time now but this afternoon I upgraded the WordPress install, upgraded stale plugins, and removed some old, unused ones. And in the process installed WPTouch , a plugin that provides a mobile-friendly UI for WordPress sites.

And true to the Law of Unintended Consequences , the mobile site now looks infinitely better than this web site. The default WPTouch design is beautiful.

Perhaps I can just convince everyone to only look at this on their phone....

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By James Stewart of a work on process 2 months ago.
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…changes, another round of work begins very soon), but one permanently. The latter will be my first Wordpress 3 deployment and involved digging into some fairly arcane parts of how WP manages URLs. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to do everything I needed within plugins, rather than having to resort to hacking away at the core.

The coming week will see continued effort to get things signed off as I'm actually going on a proper holiday the following week. There are some Greenbelt

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