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Popular 1 Pixel Out audio player vulnerability

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Brian Krogsgard
I read today that the popular 1 Pixel Out player has a vulnerability. The "Audio Player" plugin has been removed from the WordPress repository, and the PowerPress plugin (a very popular podcasting plugin) has removed the 1 Pixel Out player…

Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt nicely describes how the internet has managed to triumph in the modern world as an underdog. Today, an individual blogger's voice can be heard by hundreds of millions of people near-instantaneously. Bloggers' cumulative voices can spark change in government,…

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Austin Passy
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A week of visiting websites pretending to be blind

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Brian Krogsgard
As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in…

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.

WordPress 3.5.1

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.5.1 is out. Some bug fixes, security fixes, and even a couple usability tweaks of the media manager. Go update. No reason not to do so immediately for minor updates.

We need better abstraction in programming with WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin is always blogging fantastic things. This is another great one. He calls for developers to be more abstract in their WordPress code; in other words, to separate what goes where in a more logical, easier to repeat manner.…

Simperium joins Automattic

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Brian Krogsgard
Simperium, makers of iOS note app Simplenote as well as a fairly powerful syncing API, has been acquired by WordPress.com parent company Automattic.
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