WordPress 1.5.1 is now available for download. The new version features extended pings, better Atom output, and much better handling of international character sets. I helped with some bugs that were fixed within a matter of days. If you are a developer who loves open source, WordPress is written in PHP and has an active community that really cares about their tools. They really do need the ability to export, and I might write that in Atom….
Category Archives: Software
Yahoo! 360 nears public release
Yahoo! 360 will be released to the general public in the next few weeks according to an interview with Paul Brody, Yahoo!’s director of community products, in PC World. The public release of Yahoo! 360 will include more customization abilities and support for TrackBack….
Announcing hReview
Announcing hReview, a microformat for distributed review authorship and indexing.
Tiger launch in San Francisco
I just got home from the Tiger launch at the flagship Apple Store in San Francisco.
Flickr architecture workshop by Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson, senior developer of Flickr, is putting on a workshop for 40 people in San Francisco on Monday, June 20.
Responding to Mena Trott
Mena stayed up until about 3 a.m. last night writing a long response to some of the issues raised by Jason Kottke and others about the current cycle of business activity and how companies may not be promoting open community involvement from its employees.
New York Times receives 5.9 million March page views from RSS
The New York Times issued a press release yesterday about the growth of its online readership.
Movable Type 3.16 now available
Mena’s Corner explains some of the behind-the-scenes motivation and corporate changes for this point release…. With Movable Type 3.16, we believe that we’re getting back to the quality of code that our users had grown to expect.
Movable Type 3.16 coming Monday
Six Apart plans to release version 3.16 of Movable Type this Monday, April 18.
Perseus blog study estimates 31.6 million hosted weblogs
Perseus Development Corporation surveyed ten thousand weblogs on twenty leading weblog hosting services. They conclude 31.6 million weblogs have been created on these top hosted services including 10 million weblogs created in the first three months of 2005.