Monthly Archives: December 2007

WordPress is Infinitely Extensible

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The main “Extend” page on WordPress.org states:

One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for the huge community to expand what WordPress can do, limited only by their imagination.

That’s a statement I’ve heard about countless platforms before, but have often been disappointed to find it to be more of a marketing catch-phrase than anything concrete. Not so with WordPress!

I’ve been doing research on how to achieve specific goals with yet another plugin project, and the more I look, the easier it gets. Every time I catch myself thinking “hmm, this one’s gonna be tough”, a quick trip to the WP Codex changes my attitude within just a few minutes. Everything is possible.

Don’t get me wrong, WP is far from the only extensible platform out there and everybody has their personal pet peeves with the code base, but when coupled with amenities such as the wp-hackers mailing list and the wp-plugins dev repo, Matt and Automattic sure made it easy to adopt WordPress as a full featured scaffolding. And that’s coming from a guy who’s usually happy to start his projects from scratch.

Big Win for the Samba Team

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From “FOSS folk who make us proud“:

Samba developers Andrew Tridgell, Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke have, along with some intrepid investigators from the European Union, wrested an agreement with Microsoft that specifies that every one of Microsoft’s network protocols which are used to work with Windows Server will be provided to a newly formed body, the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation.

This is great news! Three years in the making.

Internet Brain Implant: Why We Should Say No

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From “The Internet Brain Implant: Why We Should Say No“:

This Fall pollsters Zogby International released the results of a survey that asked nearly 10,000 US adults the following question. “How likely would you be to implant a device into your brain that enabled you to use your mind to access the internet if it could be done safely?” 11% of respondents said they were very or somewhat likely to do so.

Two-for-two from ReadWriteWeb today, and not entirely unrelated if you think about it.

Sandy Pentland's Reality Mining

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From “Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You“:

Sifting through cell-phone data to get at the truth of people’s social interactions falls under the umbrella of an emerging field that Pentland has dubbed “reality mining.” And he thinks that social networks are just the beginning. The same techniques can be applied to other sets of cell-phone data to help people communicate more effectively, manage their time better, and even make their neighborhoods more livable. And it’s all thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones–the ultimate data-collection machines.

Via ReadWriteWeb.

PHP Québec CodeFest 2.0

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I will be attending the CodeFest2008 hosted in Montreal on January 5th and 6th. This year’s theme will be all about microformats. Here is a link to the Facebook event, if you’re having trouble reaching the official wiki.

I will be vying to address an hreview project I am getting involved with, unless I’m already done with it by then, in which case I’ll find something Diso related to tackle (if not both).

Note: the event is not limited to PHP by any stretch, and anyone is welcomed. Join us, it’ll be fun. And as always, it will also be a great opportunity to network with your tech-peers.