Free as in Time

First up, I guess yesterday was Unofficial International WordPress Day. Silly me, I was celebrating Canada Day, a rather national holiday. How Canuck-centric of me.

Second we’ve got 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6. Press This and the Theme Preview look pretty strong, but the thing that gets me most jazzed is the Post Versioning. If it applied to pages too, WordPress just expanded from personal publishing and CMS to include something like a wiki.

Next, here a brief look under the hood of one team’s experiences theming WordPress. Worth a look, if you ever want to play with a custom theme.

Lastly, here’s a little quicky on How to Use WordPress as a CMS For Your Business Website, which I plan to use as grist for the mill when writing up some stuff for use with our clients.

That’s it for this week.

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This is all I gots for ya this week:

WordPress shortcodes look pretty darned useful to me.

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• Long running Threads in Rails and metaprogramming fun. You know, I should just link to Yan’s blog and be done with it.
• Ajax search in Rails
• Book Review: Deploying Rails Applications
• Looking into Rubinius, a new Ruby VM
• Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company

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I installed two more browsers on my Ubuntu machine today.

Internet Explorer:
As a web developer, I have to have many versions of Internet Explorer installed on my machine for testing purposes. The following is a how-to explaining how to achieve this in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy):
How To Install Internet Explorer On Ubuntu 8.04

I ran into a problem with the install of IE 7, but 5, 5.5, and 6 all turned out just fine.

Flock:
I’d heard about Flock a while ago, and thought it time to give it a try. I followed the instructions here:
How To Install Flock Browser v1.2 on Ubuntu 8.04

I was missing a dependency, which was fixed with a quick sudo apt-get install libstdc++5.

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Bumped into this just now: Turn Delicious bookmarks into recommendations with InSuggest.

Here’s why it’s interesting: “if you’ve got an account [at delicious] you can plug-in your user name and it will scan over what you’ve bookmarked, offering similar items by tag and link associations”, or, you can point it at another user’s account, and get suggestions based on what they’re bookmarking.

I’m not a heavy delicious user, but I know a few people who are, so for me this seems like the thing to do. I can leverage their interests (and effort) and use them as jumping points when exploring a topic. Then, if I find something I think they’ll like, I can let them know about it by doing a little dance in the link hive.

Or something like that. I just wanted to say “link hive”.

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This Wednesday we’re all about theming and theming systems for WordPress:

• A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks
• 960 Grid System
• LaunchPad, The WordPress Domain Parking Theme
• Prologue theme for a group Twitter blog?

Ok, maybe not all about…

• Tutorial: Embedding Google Newsbar Wizard to WordPress
• A plugin for WordPress (unreleasedat this time), that changes stylesheets if it’s a holiday or seasonal time
• Conditional statement using custom fields

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