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Podcast co-host Joe Hoyle did an…

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Brian Krogsgard

Podcast co-host Joe Hoyle did an interview about A Day of REST on Torque. You should go! London! I mean, it's London. I say that because I've never been but I've read the books.

The WordPress Foundation settled with the…

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordPress Foundation settled with the WordPress helpers guy and Jeff Chandler reported the details on the Tavern. I just can't bring myself to care about this case, because this guy is a joke and a troll. Jeff came back from…

Someone asked for folks’ opinions on…

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Brian Krogsgard

Someone asked for folks' opinions on Post Status membership on WP Chat, and after a number of you commented (you rock) I couldn't help myself and said some things that y'all might be interested in. But mostly, I heart you.

Lessons for WordPress, from Drupalcon

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Brian Krogsgard

Drupalcon is happening, and Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has made his keynote slides available. They are highly informative and well worth looking through, even without the presentation audio. I'll highlight the big items, but seriously just see the slides, because it's…

Managing your content management system

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Brian Krogsgard

Rory Douglas writes about the perils of working within a content management system, on A List Apart. Essentially, he advocates for more editor-side decision making, to define fields and content structures so that it is a stricter publishing environment --…

Super in-depth and awesome tutorial on…

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Brian Krogsgard

Super in-depth and awesome tutorial on implementing and managing custom database tables from Timothy Jacobs -- an extension on Pippin's series.

Colleges are flunking web strategy, and…

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Brian Krogsgard

Colleges are flunking web strategy, and the XKCD sketch in this post is hilarious and sad (I know a couple members who are not flunking their universities' web strategies, I'll point out).

Don’t click around too much or…

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Brian Krogsgard

Don't click around too much or the paywall will eat you, but this might be a good interview with Matt Mullenweg. I don't know because it won't let me see it now.

This week in core is a…

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Brian Krogsgard

This week in core is a super awesome resource to see the latest Trac/Make happenings.

“Suddenly, all those supposedly manageable red…

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Brian Krogsgard

"Suddenly, all those supposedly manageable red flags metamorphosed into bloodsucking chupacabras, and before long, the full-time job I thought I wanted—thought I needed, and needed me—was turning me inside out and backwards more violently than freelancing ever had." This journalist…

WordPress.com is getting more into the…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress.com is getting more into the plugin finding business, for some reason. Maybe site management features are a bigger market than I thought? Also related to Automattic: I understood that they were going after Jetpack.com, and I noticed this weekend…

WP Updates sold under non-disclosure, experiences outage

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Brian Krogsgard
WP Updates is a SaaS that allows plugin and theme authors to provide automatic updates to their customers. It is a third party distribution system that the author uploads their updated files to and WP Updates sends it to customers.…

WordPress REST API proposed for core inclusion in two stages

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Brian Krogsgard
The much anticipated proposal for core inclusion of the WordPress REST API is here. Ryan McCue -- the project lead -- has proposed a draft for the inclusion process that recommends a two stage approach. He recommends that stage one…

JetBrains refines new PHPStorm subscriptions

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Brian Krogsgard

PHPStorm got a ton of backlash recently for announcing a switch to an Adobe Creative Cloud style subscription. Now, they've backtracked and put some really good policies in place, I think: We are moving forward with subscriptions with important adjustments.…

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