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And I'm guessing he received more than $10,000 from Automattic (WordPress.com) when they acquired him / his company. http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/09/08/after-the-deadli...…

I bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?

Even if PhotoShop has these capabilities, it's not a tool for the masses. The goal of ScrapWalls seems to be making it easy for anybody to make the collage whereas not everyone has…

It took this page about a minute to load for me and the images are still loading a couple minutes later.

As of writing this post, in WordPress's directory there are 11,351 plugins and 1,239 themes. Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/ I'd call the API a success: it has thousands of au…

#1) True. It does not use an MVC paradigm. That's not the way it was designed, and they're not able to make it MVC w/o breaking backward compatibility with the huge ecosystem of pl…

WordPress is abandoning support for PHP4 and MySQL 4 in version 3.1. This will allow them to incorporate many of the features in PHP5 they haven't been able to do yet such as stron…

For development, 256 works pretty well. If you host more than one site or have a lot of dynamically generated content, you can quickly surpass the 256MB limit and need 512MB. This …

Blue Box Group, EC2, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Slicehost, ... there are a lot of options out there depending on the features you require and the level of support.

When I got my first VPS, I read through the articles at Slicehost: http://articles.slicehost.com/ The walkthroughs cover a variety of distros including Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS a…

Same. I've tried their normal site and mobile site. I was excited about the sale and the chance to purchase an ebook in a format that would work on my Android phone, but this exper…

Agree. Linking to executables/installers is probably a bad habit - why not link to the download page itself so people can read more about the app?