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Happy Birthday GNU!

September 2, 2008 – 2:25 pm

The GNU Project is 25 years young! And Richard Stallman and crew are working as hard as ever. Thank you!
The GNU Project is most famous for it’s versions of UNIX utilities and the GPL family of licenses. But whatever you think of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation’s hard-line approaches and politics, everyone has [...]

Quebec’s Anti- Open Source Policy

August 28, 2008 – 10:36 am

Peter Nowak wrote a CBC article yesterday about Quebec being sued for not accepting software contract bids:
“Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused…”
The article has the tantalizing title of [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in Canada | Also tagged Canonical, ibm, Novel, oracle, Peter Nowak, Public, Public Interest, RedHat, Sun, Ubuntu | Comments (0)

Drupal Camp Victoria next Weekend

August 27, 2008 – 9:27 am

Drupal Camp Victoria is happening all day Friday and Saturday Sept 5th and 6th. It’s hosted by North Studio at their training center, 301-771 Vernon Ave (plaza just coming into Victoria, near Save-On-Foods, Walmart).
It’s a free event, and if your work is any way related to the web, you will be missing out if [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in Victoria | Also tagged barcamp, Boris Mann, CMS, Conference, drupal, Drupal Camp, Drupal Camp Victoria, Event, Web Developer | Comments (0)

Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress

August 20, 2008 – 10:48 pm

Six Apart VP Anil’s response today on the official Six Apart blog to my Movable Type Pro Introduction video parody doesn’t surprise me, but where is the link love?
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By Lloyd | Posted in Opinion, WordPress | Also tagged Anil Dash, Automattic, BuddyPress, CMS, Movable Type, Movable Type Pro, Parody, Performance, Plugins, Product Stories, Scalability, Six Apart, Social Graph, social networking, Web Security, WordPress, WordPress Security | Comments (7)

WordPress for iPhone + Source Code Available!

July 25, 2008 – 8:17 am

Earlier this week my Automattic colleagues and Effigent released WordPress for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, the source is also available and Trac is set up for reporting bugs and participating in development!
I’ve tried it on my iPod Touch. They’ve done a great job! And are urgently working on fixing the worse bugs.
It’s already in [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Automattic, iPhone, iPod Touch, Matt Thomas, Raanan Bar-Cohen, WordPress, WordPress for iPhone | Comments (3)

Not Invited to the Open Web

July 24, 2008 – 11:43 am

Some friends have asked if WordPress and Automattic will be participating in the Open Web Foundation. It does look like a brilliant initiative, but as far as I know we weren’t invited. That’s really unfortunate, because I don’t think there could have been a greater gesture of co-operation in the blogging industry than David Recordon [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in Free Culture, Web | Also tagged Automattic, David Recordon, Open Web, Open Web Foundation, Six Apart, WordPress | Comments (8)

WordPress, Gears, Offline, Privacy

July 4, 2008 – 1:02 pm

Google Gears has been enabled on WordPress.com for a couple of weeks now for some members, but was only announced this week. Andrew Ozz (azaozz) added this feature a couple of month ago in the development version of self-hosted WordPress. I’ve been using it for about a month, and even though I have a decent [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Andrew Ozz, Brad Neuberg, Browser Add-Ons, Firefox, google, Google Gears, Internet Explorer, Online Privacy, WordPress, WordPress Performance, WordPress.com | Comments (12)

I’m Biased, But Try Movable Type and Drupal

March 13, 2008 – 9:29 am

Anil Dash has written an article titled “A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide” on the official movabletype.com blog. It is full of misdirection, and, thankfully, overall it hasn’t been well received. What excites me is it has sparked some excellent discussions, and it’s a great launching point for more conversations.
I whole heartily recommend you try [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide, Anil Dash, Automattic, Bias, Blogging Software, Boris Mann, Byrne Reese, Collaboration, Darren Hoyt, Don Dodge, Expression Engine, Jeff Jones, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Sippey, Movable Type, Raincity Studios, Shelley Powers, Six Apart, WordPress, WordPress 2.5 | Comments (9)

WordPress Google Summer of Code 2

March 7, 2008 – 3:29 pm

The Google Summer of Code is here again. I submitted our WordPress application today. Last year was awesome, and I think this year will be even way better!
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By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Automattic, Chris DiBona, Google Summer of Code, gsoc, GSoC2008, Jacob Santos, Leslie Hawthorn, Matt Mullenweg, Mentors, Ronald Heft Jr, Students, WordPress, WordPress Partcipants | Comments (3)

Zbigniew Braniecki joins Mozilla Corp!

February 21, 2008 – 9:47 am

My friend Zbigniew Braniecki, long time Mozilla participant, has left Flock and is now employed by Mozilla. I was waiting for him to publicly share this news and now he has with “Joining Mozilla!“.
My first project is to help Mozilla Central/Eastern European communities and raise the awareness of whatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s going there in Mozilla project. [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in Firefox, Flock, Mozilla | Also tagged Axel Hecht, Bugzilla, Chris Messina, Clayton Stark, David Ascher, Evangelism, Flock, FOSDEM, Gandalf, Internalization and Localization, Jane Finette, John Lilly, MoCo, Mozilla, Mozilla Europe, My World, Open Projects, Pascal Chevrel, Paul Kim, Seth Bindernagel, Sociology, Tristan Nitot, Zbiggy, Zbigniew Braniecki | Comments (2)