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Geeking Out
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04.22.08Testing WordPress 2.5Wow! Just wow... A great upgrade I can recommend to everyone. Some feature I am loving, and this is not exhaustive, I have used the new version for 10min :): 1. Improved user interface, much more useable, not trying to guess where functionalities might be 2. One-click plugin upgrade - literally, that's a huge timesaver, nicely implemented too 3. Possibility to edit the URL (to some extent) of every post I am writing 4. Possibility to "password protect" a post 5. I am guessing the introduction of a workflow with post statuses (published, unpublished, pending review) 6. Possibility to schedule a post for publication Might add more ...
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09.15.07Pidgin, Guifications and GlibI'm having some troubles to install the Guifications plugin for Pidgin. I've spent maybe 5 hours looking for a solution but without success so far - and damn it's getting on my nerves... I'm running Ubuntu Feisty and Pidgin 2.2.0, both of them running very smoothly. I would like right now to install the Guifications plug-in for Pidgin which is a little system notifying when a user comes online (there are actually many other use cases but this one is for me the most useful). Since there are no Debian packages for this plug-in, I have to compile it from the ...
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07.23.07Pownce invites for you!I have been invited to the new "Twitter killer" Pownce. If you don't know what Twitter is, check my Twitter page and you'll understand quickly (I think :) ) I have 5 invites to give away... Please comment in this post to get yours, first come first served! I didn't have time to try it out yet, but will do when I have more time... Some posts that may be related:Succeeding with Agile A Basic Thought on Team Commitment & Responsibility Archives
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07.09.07Syntax highlighting in VimIn my recent frenzy for PHP programming, I've been using Vim as main text editor (it comes by default in Ubuntu, and in most Linux flavours actually)... I have been tempted to use many full featured applications but many more experienced developers advised me to stick to something simple - do it the hard way or just don't do it :) Vim offers a lot of possibilities when it comes to text file editing - and to master this tool requires years of practice (here is the official Vim book - about 570 pages). Anyways, since Vim doesn't use syntax highlighting ...
