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Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It’s called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He’s also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way to interact with WordPress and its SVN workflow if you’re more familiar with Git.

How the Washington Post used WordPress to power The Grid

ByBrian Krogsgard

The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It’s a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other tools to create this unique platform. It’s an honest and interesting case study. h/t Devin…

You probably don’t need do_shortcode()

ByBrian Krogsgard

Konstantin Kovshenin brought up a good point on his blog, that we should be avoiding do_shortcode() if we can easily use the callback directly. Using the callback function directly prevents WordPress from invoking the shortcode regex that parses shortcode strings. This definitely makes sense when using shortcodes within the theme or plugin they are created…

Lessons in Maintenance
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Lessons in Maintenance

ByDan Knauss

What’s the best approach to maintenance — in software, sailing, or anything else? Hope for the best? Stewart Brand takes a famous solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing race as a parable about maintenance styles that will win, go beyond winning, or drive you mad.

WordPress and JavaScript with Backbone

ByBrian Krogsgard

I recently ran across this excellent slide deck from K. Adam White on evolving your JavaScript with BackBone.js. It’s a really great deck that I highly recommend you fully digest. It’s simple enough for people not yet well versed in such things but want to learn, but also has plenty of meaty content for those…