Month: January 2014
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Writing Open Source Code (Or “Here Be Dragons”)
Great shit from Tom McFarlin that should be required reading for every new open source developer.
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The Code History of WordPress
Nice history lesson from Marko Heijnen.
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WP Security Audit Log
Very nice, comprehensive activity logging plugin. Now with Multisite support.
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When to use target=”_blank”
TL;DR: Almost never.
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Plugin Organizer
Plugin Organizer adds a whole new level of optimization to WordPress. When activated, you can selectively disable plugins on sections of your site and re-order how they’re loaded. I’m seriously going to have to carve out some time this weekend to fuck around with this.
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Good People of WordPress: We are Fighting a War
Some good shit from Rami Abraham. Open-source communities are the front lines against a force few will ever comprehend. WordPress is one of the most influential and powerful of open-source communities on the Internet. Who is our enemy? Closed-source content management systems, sketchy data-mining practices, terrible privacy policies, and the un-ending, Draconian greed of so…
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Good First Bug
Want to become a core contributor? Do you have absolutely no idea where to start? Consider keeping an eye on the good-first-bug tag on Trac.
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Git mirrors for WordPress
For all practical purposes, the SVN and Git repositories are now equals. Pick your poison; use whatever you’d like for all your development and deployment needs. Fuck. Yes.
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Charlie India Oscar
Until a recent episode of 99% Invisible, I had no idea that You Are Listening To had a numbers station child site. But it does. And it’s pretty amazing. I’ll go ahead and spare you from my amateur synopsis of numbers stations. Instead, load up You are listening to Numbers Stations in a new tab and spend a little quality…