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WordPress switch to jQuery with 2.2 "Getz" release
Only 4 months after their 2.1 “Ella” release, WordPress have released version 2.2, this time named after a jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. The significant thing in 2.2 is the partial switch to jQuery — the self-proclaimed “write less, do more” JavaScript library — and the intention to transition all JavaScript to the library (I think they currently use Prototype) in …
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The blogoshpere – where even the bad guys are good
You’ve got to love the blogosphere. In spite of what some people may say, it’s a respectful community that self-polices and where even the villains are heroes – if you give ‘em a chance. To illustrate my example, take a trip over to Pearsonified (never a wasted journey in any case), specifically to this post where Chris is on the …
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Why should websites say where they're based?
Why should a website — especially one selling a service — tell people where they’re based? After all, it’s a global community. Here’s why: even though I could do business with a freelancer in Queensland I’d much rather do it with someone in the UK (it’s not a prejudice, it’s practical!), better still, someone just down the road. I think …
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Best RSS description yet
I always have difficulty adequately describing RSS to the non-initiated, as the page on here attests. Like anything else I have technical knowledge of, a description soon moves away from what is actually useful for the listener to why it’s so technically accomplished – and at that point most people, quite rightly, zone out. I often direct people to the …
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My Name is Tim
Allow me to introduce myself as Tim Reader, author of From Now On. You can work the rest out for yourself.
