Tag Archive for 'Open Source'

WordPress 2.6

So many tasty features, that I’ll just the video do the talking.

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Introducing FlareSmith

For the past few weeks I’ve been quietly tinkering on a new section of the ol’ xentek homestead, and I’m happy to report that the efforts are starting to bare fruit. In other words, I’ve been scratching a few itches, and have released the results under the GPLv3. The first one out of the incubator is FlareSmith. a WordPress plugin to integrate the FeedBurner Stats and FeedFlare services into your blog - without having to edit your theme.

This plugin was the result of using the K2 theme framework for most of my WordPress sites. I got tired of having to remember to patch theloop.php each time I wanted to upgrade K2. By developing a simple content filter, I could insert the small JavaScript snippet that powers the FeedBurner Stats and FeedFlare integration with your self-hosted blog.

The plugin is available here, and is also hosted at the WordPress Plugins Database - to take advantage of the new plugin upgrade functionality in 2.5.

Enjoy!

P.S. I entered the plugin into a competition. Stop by and vote for me if you get a chance.

Reddit Goes Open Source

When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we’re inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site.

Laughing Squid has been all over this. And TechCrunch is already running it. The best bit is the logo on their trac instance:

Someone Better Fixxit

But other than the “free” bug fixes, I can’t really see what greater good this is going to bring to the world or their organization. Don’t we have enough news voting sites? I guess Reddit doesn’t think so. This would have been bigger news a year ago.

Have some unique ways to use reddits source code? Then post them in the comments.

Open Document Format Wars

It seems that the Open Document Format, the native format for Open Office.org and contributed to by the Open Document Foundation, as slammed this week - by the ODF - as being too proprietary, and that the corporate backers (such as Sun who adopted the format for its own Star Office package) were more interested in killing Microsoft Office than TRUE Interoperability between Word Processors and the other office productivity tools.

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Ubuntu 7.10

Ubuntu 7.10 - Coming soon

Ubuntu 7.10 is out. And it’s a long term support release.

Looks like daddy got a new server platform (I was on 6.06 LTS before that)