Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ian Murdock, the founder the Debian Linux operating system and the creator of apt-get, has passed away. Yes, it is very sad to announce that Ian Murdock is not between us. His death has touched the entire software community. He was just 42. The announcement of Murdock death came out via a blog post on…
Journal Entry, 12/18/2015 – “It’s late Friday night, my wife is already asleep, and I finally found time to go through those pull requests on that old project I put up on github last year. My daughter is getting up at 7:30 though, so I better not stay up too late. 9 new issues since…
Despite the existence of WP_Error and all the pieces required, there is no single “WordPress Way” to handle and display errors. You can indicate an error occurred in a function or method by returning the WP_Error object (and that’s been my usual MO in my work), but once we do, how do we handle these…
.entry-header People are abuzz because it looks like the W3Techs survey of the web now has WordPress at 25% market share. Sometimes it goes up and down through the course of a month, but it’s still a pretty fun milestone that we can now say about one in four websites are now powered by the…
November 6, 2015 Tagged / open source / 18f consulting / procurement / by V. David Zvenyach Well, we sure didn’t expect this. But the winning bid for the first iteration of the 18F micro-purchase experiment was $1. And, on Wednesday, the winner delivered a solution that passed our acceptance criteria. We conceived…
I can’t even. I’ve been tracking misogynistic ridiculousness on this blog for five years, but I’m not sure I ‘ve ever run across anything quite as ridiculous as this. A prominent Open Source guru, Eric Raymond, is warning tech dudes to be extra super duper careful around their female colleagues, because any one of them…
WP REST API: Merge Proposal Hello everyone! This is the post you’ve all been waiting for. We on the REST API team (myself, @rachelbaker, @joehoyle, @danielbachhuber, and newest member and core committer @pento) would like to propose merging the REST API into WordPress core. We’ve been working a while on this, and think it’s now…
WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features. WordPress 4.3 has been four months in the making and is shipping right on time. The release was lead by Konstantin Obenland. 247 people contributed…
If you look at any WordPress plugin of significant size, you’ll probably find most of them boot the same way. From BuddyPress, to PressForward, to JetPack, all of these boot the same way: with singletons. JetPack in particular is interesting, as many of its modules are also singletons themselves. It’s an extremely common pattern in…
In a post titled “The Truth About Thesis.com,” Chris Pearson responded to the recent heated discussions about his legal battle with Automattic over the Thesis.com domain and related trademarks. His public response revives a five-year old licensing disagreement. “I think the most important place to start is by asking: Why would Automattic—a website software company…