Thursday, March 31, 2011

JavaScript Libraries

What's this, no multi-page post today—complete with code examples and links all over the place? Instead, I did some house cleaning, and added a new wing. JavaScript has been such a hot topic around here of late, and in the Web development community in general, that I took a look at my growing list of resources and discovered that indeed, the JavaScript category was in need of some pruning. Amongst the list, and in particular by studying the most popular tags, I found that JavaScript libraries would make an excellent category to splinter off and reduce the weight in the parent folder. I know, I know, I need to implement paging. PHP is another one that grew out of its clothes.

Speaking of implementing paging (and caching and a lot of other things on my todo list), I have been really busy behind the scenes fixing bugs and making other improvements to both this blog and loadaverageZero in general. Some of them my visitors may have noticed, some may not. But things are definitely on the upswing around here since health has improved.

One thing that really has me puzzled is what to do with this blog. I'm running a rather old, and hacked to pieces, version of Serendipity. I don't want to let go of the design, which I spent a lot of time on, yet on the same token it bothers me that my only recourse to block spammers and other miscreants was to disable comments and trackbacks. I'm not a big fan of Captchas, I would prefer to go the OpenID route.
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Monday, March 28, 2011

WordPress 3.1, lots of fun

The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you can update from within your dashboard.
This release features a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow which makes it easy to link to your existing posts and pages, an admin bar so you’re never more than a click away from your most-used dashboard pages, a streamlined writing interface that hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers (visit Screen Options in the top right to get old panels back), and a refreshed blue admin scheme available for selection under your personal options.
There’s a bucket of candy for developers as well, including our new Post Formats support which makes it easy for themes to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts, new CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, an overhaul of the import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.
With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.
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Community Builder in WordPress

One feature that is unique for WordPress users and useful for blog visitors. Community builder option that similar to any social networking site. This option enabled and added with next WordPress software package release.
Ordinary visitors can create his/her own profile with uploaded profile photo or videos or voice.
One way for to socialize and get in touch with blog visitors or vice versa. Blog visitors can do more rather just reading posts and leaving comments. Better way for WordPress owner to interact and to know more about his/her blog visitors.
It's a guestbook and social networking all together.
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