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If you post the sites your working on so that your clients can show of your progress, no doubt you are password protecting it with .htpasswd. There is one drawback to this approach, the Flash Uploader will throw an HTTP Error when HTTP Basic Authentication is used. Put the following snippet in your VirtualHost file to fix that error.
<Files async-upload.php>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
Satisfy Any
</Files>
Ryan Price and I have recorded the second episode of our occasional podcast, Our Yellow House. In this installament we trip over a new Iron Triangle: Vision, Time, and Skill and how it relates to doing creative work. It breaks down like this: With enough time, you can create. With enough skill and time, you can create anything. But creating something that moves people also requires a great amount of Vision as well.
Continue reading ‘Time, Skill, and Vision’
In all the fervor surrounding today’s launch of the seventh major release of Drupal, I ran across a post pitting Drupal 7 vs. WordPress 3.0 in a basic comparison of features.
The post was not published recently or anything, but the underlying tone of the article is summed up in a couple of Tweets quoted near the bottom of the post:
RT @chx1975: WordPress is now approximately where Drupal was around Drupal 5 w/ content types. See you in 2015.
RT @newoceans_en: @Dries Drupal 7 will hopefully be where WordPress was around 5 years ago regarding UX.
I get it. Its all great fun to get into a pissing match with a friendly rival, at least until somebody gets wet, but to me this smacks of the ‘Editor War‘ between vi and emacs; forever the flame that lights the nooks and crannies of hacker culture.
Continue reading ‘!= but ==’
Eric Barker, Cory Miller, and I were recently interviewed by 435 Digital, Tribune’s online marketing division, about why businesses should use WordPress. The consensus? Its free, its flexible, its SEO-friendly — all while being easy to use, update and customize.
Continue reading ‘Top Reasons to Use WordPress’
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