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WordPress 3.0 Beta first code review complete

April 12th, 2010 by timani, View Comments

As the WordPress community eagerly awaits the final release of WordPress 3.0 it is always good news when you see positive reviews from Alex King, the WordPress innovator with plugins like the widely used Twitter Tools, the Carrington theme framework, and the WordPress ShareThis plugin, on how things progressed. This is also pretty re-assuring as [...]

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Add your linkedIn profile on your site or WordPress blog – no coding

Add your linkedIn profile on your site or Wordpress blog - no coding
April 10th, 2010 by timani, View Comments

Recently i was working with the Facebook AP again, before i did my presentation at the Seattle PHP meetup . At the time one of the potential ideas was the linkedIn API and how to integrate linkedIn to your site, but obviously facebook was the API in demand. As i was playing around with the [...]

WordPress blogs getting HACKED! no fix as of yet?

April 10th, 2010 by timani, View Comments

UPDATE: No official patch but there is a fix for this now. You can find out  more here… – April 12th 2009 Unfortunately today i read some bad news as SC magazine (April 9th 2010) reported that indeed some WordPress blogs had indeed been hacked! A while ago did write about security and permissions, and [...]

Twitter being used as a box-office sales crystal ball

Twitter being used as a box-office sales crystal ball
April 10th, 2010 by timani, View Comments

I think it is a definite reflection on the direction that social marketing is taken when Twitter is being used to predict box office hits, misses and general forecast number, with very good accuracy considering the nature of the subject, the old tweet. As i read the BBC i saw an article about Computer scientists [...]

Microsoft getting deeper into jQuery and open source

April 9th, 2010 by timani, View Comments

Image via CrunchBase I much like every other developer has cursed Microsoft for bringing the ever, non-standards compliant Internet Explorer Browser suite to the world. Fortunately the pain of dealing with Microsodt based browsers has lessened but some pain at times is undeniable. When Microsoft first included jQuery as part of its .Net framework stack [...]