“Scheduled Posts Not Publishing With 2.7” and other links…
WordPress.org: “Some code monkeys simply don’t understand the meaning or concepts behind terms like stable, production, development, bleeding edge, edge, etc. 2.7 was not ready for release, but they pushed it out anyway. In 2008, we have had how many releases? Too many. So many that I wrote a script to crawl the server and update the 100 and something WP installations that I have running in one shot, since doing it manually was becoming a huge burden on myself and my admin.”
“HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight”
Slashdot: “While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the potential to eat these vendors’ lunches, offering Web experiences based on an industry standard. In fact, one expressed goal of the standard is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX. ‘It would be a terrible step backward if humanity’s major development platform [the Web] was controlled by a single vendor the way that previous platforms such as Windows have been,’ says HTML 5 co-editor Ian Hickson, a Google employee. But whether HTML 5 and its Canvas technology will displace proprietary plug-ins ‘really depends on what developers do,’ says Firefox technical lead Vlad Vukicevic. It also depends on Microsoft, the only company involved in the HTML 5 effort that is both a browser developer and an RIA tool developer.” Remember when Star Trek had a different, futuristic economic system? The need to “monetize” threatens to continue to “be a terrible step backward”… Yes, corporations will compete with a standard.
“50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography”
Smashing Magazine: “Better CSS Font Stacks; FontsMatrix (Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite); Default Windows fonts list; Fontstruct (FontStruct is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.); abcTajpu Firefox Extension (Type in accented letters, international characters or symbols into Firefox or Thunderbird, either simply by using a context menu (there being support for many languages), or quickly by keyboard macro (you can even define your own).); Em Calculator; STC fontBROWSER (This tools enables you to preview fonts installed on your system online.); Flipping Typical (This is a nice way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer and see which one fits the project you are working on.); 12 Examples Of Paragraph Typography; 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and How They Did It; With typeface.js, you can embed custom fonts on your Web pages so that you don’t have to render text as images. What makes it different is that it’s JavaScript only, not JavaScript and Flash like sIFR, or JavaScript and PHP like FLIR. Advanced Typography Techniques Using CSS; Typographic Contrast and Flow; Vertical rhythm calculator (This AIR application allows Web developers who use XHTML and CSS to build their pages to understand and calculate values for vertical rhythm.); 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design; Clean font showcase…”