Month: June 2007

• I’m having lots of fun with WordPress stats.Today my “Simple Widgets” article is more popular than yesterday “Advanced widgets”. WTF? :) #
• The code posting problem (...) is global.And it’s bigger than I ever knew or imagined.Weird.Isn’t it coders’ proble #
• I almost felt asleep while reading a long article about lucid dreaming… I had no dreams though… http://tinyurl.com/24oznb #
• Paradox that I am ashamed of: my second best client continuously gets my second worst service. This is not even funny anymore. #
• Pressing doesn’t work. Choose other ways to make people do those things you want them to do. #
• WordPress.com makes it very hard to post PHP code.Screenshots are trivial,on the other hand.I am thinking of using images for text.This sux. #

• Back to the office #
• Finally found a really annoying bug in one of my WordPress plugins. Trying to figure out how to fix it without rewriting much of the logic. #
• @atw26: lifehacker is one of my favorites too #
• Watching a few Axl Rose (GNR) videos on YouTube.When he was sober,he cared a lot about the show, crew, and people in the audience. #

• Today is Maxim’s first graduation party. Toddler class, kindergarden. #
• Toddler graduation is about the cutest thing I saw in my life. Pictures are coming shortly. #
• TinyURL is down. All links give 500 Internal Server Error. What do we do now? #
• @atw26: I don’t “I’m online” is an answer to “What are you doing?”. I am online 24×7, as many other people are. It’s not what I am doing. :) #
• @atw26:what I am doing is “uploading pictures to Flickr”,”thinking that WordPress rocks”,and “reading slashdot/digg/email/twitter”… #
• @atw26: Maybe.But the point is that “uploading pictures to Flickr” provides an option for re-action (for me to go an check them for example) #
• by the way, I’m actually uploading pictures to Flickr right now :) #
• I like how Gmail uses different colors for author names in conversations.Each author gets his own color.Makes picking specific replies easy. #
• @atw26: What ARE you doing online? Except, of course, reading email… :) #
• grep-ing through files which are on a remote FTP server isn’t the smartest thing to do. Yet I am doing it. With Midnight Commander’s help. #
• Now that was fast! I am already getting some traffic from Google to my recently created WordPress bits blog.It’s even less than two days old #
• Circumcision is the funniest topic ever, when it comes to web sites with plenty of geeks. http://tinyurl.com/24kqr3 #

I have just started a new blog. Yes, you’ve heard me right – more blogging, different place.

I’m working with all flavors of WordPress a lot lately. I am doing a lot of development. I am discovering a lot of new things. So, I thought, why not have a blog about my exploration and customization of this excellent platform. And since it’s all going to be all about WordPress, why not use WordPress.com hosted blog for this. And so I did.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome WordPress bits.

• Good morning. Guten morgen. Dobroe utro. Kalimera. #
• Alt+Shift+V opens advanced options in WordPress editor. #
• WordPress widgets are really cool. Too bad I haven’t played with them earlier. #
• For this client,I’m making three widget areas:left sidebar,main area,and right sidebar.All content goes into widgets.They’ll be impressed. #
• In fact,each template (is_search(),is_404(),is_home(),etc) can have its own set of sidebars.Full customization with drag and drop. Cool! #
• IM postings to Twitter lag behind. I’m duplicating everything through the web. I wonder if both will show up… #
• I just made myself the best frappe ever. I wonder what I did differently this time… #
• Suddenly I very interested in WordPress plugins licenses. Yes, I am using this stuff for commercial purposes. No, I don’t mind GPL. #
• I still think that GPL is better than BSD license. #
• One of the good things about using third-party software is that you can always blame it. “It’s a WordPress issue, not ours”. Just love that. #
• Demonstrated WordPress widgets to a few people around here. Jaw-dropping effect. Much like expected. #
• Going through the full list of plugins at http://wp-plugins.net/ can blow your head off. My mind is in pre-explosive state right now. #
• I’m exhausted. My brain doesn’t focus anymore. That WordPress plugins list in the middle of the day was a mistake. Better left for evenings. #
• Tried the new Skype-1.4 beta for Linux. Uber crap. Groups are gone. Fonts are screwed. Half of the options are read-only. I’m back to 1.3. #
• I’m playing with WordPress so much these days, that I should probably need to have a separate blog dedicated just to that. #
• I just started a new blog. It’s about WordPress hacking. Enjoy – http://wpbits.wordpress.com/ #