WordPress, GPL and Widget Context
Definitely check out the special episode of WordPress Weekly podcast (RSS) hosted by Jeff Chandler where Matt Mullenweg explains why WordPress, GPL and Open Source matters. I am finally publishing my...
View ArticleThe Future of Media is Linux
All e-book readers to be released in 2009 will have Linux as their operating system. Can it really be that Microsoft and Apple have already missed it? Could they have not realized that all traditional...
View ArticleFree Software, GPL and WordPress
If you want to know what the spirit of GPL and Free Software is, listen to what Stephen Fry and Richard Stallman have to say. These ideas are so simple and amazing at the same time that no rule or...
View ArticleWordPress, Plugins and Open Source
It’s funny how only now when WordPress has been updated and many plugins have stopped working, people realize how important and significant the plugins are. Show your love for open source — say Thanks...
View ArticleProprietary vs. Liberal vs. GNU GPL
This is a response to an article written by Daniel Jalkut, titled Getting Pretty Lonely. I think there is one critical point that we all should agree on — developers like to be compensated for their...
View ArticleWhiteHouse.gov Runs Drupal
White House opens Web site programming to public. Another proof that Free Software matters. (via WordPress Tavern Forum) Related posts Free Software, GPL and WordPress Member of the Free Software...
View ArticleRasmus Lerdorf on the History and Future of PHP
Etsy Code as Craft on LiveStream Related posts History of Nginx
View ArticleUse GitHub for WordPress Plugin Development
I just wrote a tutorial on how to use Git (and GitHub) with Subversion mirroring for WordPress plugin development Related posts Suggestions for writing flexible and usable plugin Develop and Work with...
View ArticleEnvato Could Allow 100% GPL Themes and Plugins
I [..] feel that ThemeForest should offer an option for authors, if they choose, to sell their themes with a GPL license covering the entirety of the theme. I am going to take this option to our...
View ArticleMatteo Spinelli on Open Source
The single most important decision in my career was to start developing open source software (OSS) and blogging about it. [..] I picked for them the most liberal license I could find (MIT) and...
View ArticleContact Form 7 Storage Plugin
Today I am releasing my very first commercial WordPress plugin called Storage for Contact Form 7 which keeps copies of all Contact Form 7 submissions in your WordPress dashboard. It is available on...
View ArticleWhy Drupal Faded
Drupal faded because its corporate steward, Acquia, placed its own success ahead of bolstering Drupal’s status as a truly open standard. WordPress has reached its current level of ubiquity because its...
View ArticleDecoding the FVT ESC Firmware
I wanted to explore the configuration and firmware update protocol used by this electronic speed controller (ESC) for electric skateboards from Favourite (FVT) Electronics: Favourite 120A Sleeping Lion...
View ArticleAtom Autocomplete for WordPress Coding Standard (WPCS) Whitelist Flags
This morning I created an Atom package for the WordPress Coding Standard (WPCS) whitelist flag autocomplete. I used this blog post by Will Boyd along with the autocomplete boilerplate repository as a...
View ArticleRSS Feeds for WordPress Plugin and Theme Support Forum Topics and Replies
A list of support topics and replies for WordPress.org plugins and themes in an RSS reader. It is currently impossible to get notified of new WordPress.org support forum replies without subscribing to...
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