There is going to be a Free Software / Open Source conference “Freedom and Technology” this Saturday, October 3rd (18:00-21:00) in Cyprus University of Technology, in Limassol, Cyprus.  Organizers are the same people you know from the Ubuntu CY community.  I’m going to do a talk titled “The practical guide to Open Source participation”.  Slides will be linked here after the talk.
See you there.
Many a time I’ve been involved in building a custom WordPress theme, which relied or benefited from some plugins being installed and activated. Â I’ve always had an ad hoc solution to the problem, with my own installation scripts, WP-CLI mockery, etc. “Packaging third-party plugins with your WordPress theme using TGM Plugin Activation library” covers a much more elegant solution. Â I haven’t tried it yet, but it does look very promising for my next WordPress project.
Waze, the social networking for drivers, presents some analysis of global driver satisfaction. Â It’s not covering 100% of the globe, but it’s still interesting to look into differences between countries and cities. Â See if you can find anything surprising…
GitHub blog brings us a piece of exciting news – now you can add more attachment types to comments. Â The list is no longer limited by images alone. Â Now you can attach Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, as well as plain text and PDF documents. Â This feature alone will make GitHub Issues into a much more viable bug tracking option for many projects and companies.
