I don’t do chat rooms. I only IM if it’s necessary for a client interface. I don’t participate overly in forums except for a few that are industry specific. Reason? I’m too damn busy with paying work. However, that leaves me at a distinct disadvantage when interfacing with one of those who do. Especially when […]

Though WordPress did “enhance” the image handling capabilities in version 2.0.x, the image utility is not the easiest to use. It’s awkward, produces thumbnails instead of fullsize photos despite complaints of this on the forum, and is just plain counter intuitive for end users. So I went on a hunt to find a good image […]

Matt Mullenweig announced on the WordPress Forum that he has installed a “New WordPress Search.” What amazed me about this announcement and the responses to it is that it completely ignores the fact that Matt’s the one who BROKE the search when he decided to change the working forum to a completely untested and alpha […]

If the settlement between ICANN and Verisign is approved by the Department of Commerce Verisign will have complete control over all dot coms and the ability to raise prices on them with no cost justification, and revert us to the days of the Network Solutions Domain Name Monopoly. Bob Parsons of GoDaddy, one of […]

Just announced on the ModX Support Forum the module for the integration of the SMF forum application with the ModX Content Management Platform has been completed and will be released later today. This comes at a perfect time for me since I’ll be using this to build the Refresh Delaware Valley community website (which is […]