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You may or may not know that I'm terribly busy at work at the moment, rewriting a large application that has its roots in PHP3 (oh yeah) and is a crazy mix of HTML and PHP. Things like 'abstraction', 'layers', or even just 'separating code and presentation' are completely alien concepts there. So I decided to ...

I will be participating in this year's Summer of Code, working on WordPress internationalization. You can read my full proposal online. Of over 6,000 applications, about 900 were accepted. WordPress could only accept 10 out of about 90 applications. It's bound to be an interesting summer with working on WordPress and Habari at the same time, ...

Whee, the nice folks over at Watershed Studio have credited me for the stuff I contributed to the Sphere Related Content Plugin. :D

Matt Mullenweg on wp-hackers: Let's create a 2.2 branch and start removing the current tagging implementation. I'll announce on my blog that 2.2 will be delayed. So, fear not, ye UTW users. There shall be no tagging in 2.2. The discussion has been lively to say the least. Update: Demolition! Update: Official Announcement

Update: I forgot to mention that you must hack a core file and adapt your theme, too. See the end of the article. Upgrading to WordPress 2.2 bleeding edge is an adventure, always. Not necessarily because they introduce new bugs--it's the new features that are sometimes worrying. When one svn up changed all the feeds from ...

Okay, seriously. Habari 0.1.1 Developer Release is now available for download and hacking: habari-0.1.1.tar.gz -- 202kB SHA1 hash: b56261430c001362670eb4c9853dbd684267e9c4 habari-0.1.1.zip -- 266kB SHA1 hash: aabb0d8fbb5c24389544ad0ff3b8106213c05e04 The 0.1.1 version includes a fix for the search XSS problem and removes the misleading warning in the installer. I don't recommend using it on a public site without being aware ...

Hey, don't worry! We're just kidding! You're reading Habari's April Fools joke. Update: ForkPress made 20,070,401 downloads already! I can't believe it! It started with great promise, great promises, and at an opportune time. Everyone and their mother were starting to get disgruntled with WordPress - it had its share of scandals, its codebase contained a ...

I kid, I kid. I have no intention of changing operating systems, at least until Linux finally is ready for the Deskop. Plan 9 still is nice, though! Much is foul in the state of computing today. Proprietary software is used throughout the industry as well as on the majority of personal computers. The promised Linux ...

As you may or may not know, I'm now part of the core development committee of Habari. Habari is a next generation blogging platform written in object-oriented PHP using the model view controller design pattern. There, enough buzzwords? Not having to support a huge installed codebase with a lot of legacy, we have a chance to ...