calvinf

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by calvinf 16y ago
And I'm guessing he received more than $10,000 from Automattic (WordPress.com) when they acquired him / his company. http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/09/08/after-the-deadli...
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by calvinf 16y ago
I bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?
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by calvinf 16y ago
Even if PhotoShop has these capabilities, it's not a tool for the masses. The goal of ScrapWalls seems to be making it easy for anybody to make the collage whereas not everyone has or knows how to use PhotoShop.
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by calvinf 16y ago
It took this page about a minute to load for me and the images are still loading a couple minutes later.
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by calvinf 16y ago
As of writing this post, in WordPress's directory there are 11,351 plugins and 1,239 themes. Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/ I'd call the API a success: it has thousands of authors releasing thousands of plugins and themes and this i
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by calvinf 16y ago
#1) True. It does not use an MVC paradigm. That's not the way it was designed, and they're not able to make it MVC w/o breaking backward compatibility with the huge ecosystem of plugins and themes that currently exist. #2) True, and I agre
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by calvinf 16y ago
WordPress is abandoning support for PHP4 and MySQL 4 in version 3.1. This will allow them to incorporate many of the features in PHP5 they haven't been able to do yet such as stronger OOP. http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/eol-for-php4-an
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Percentage of top grossing US films by decade that depict killing (blog.jgc.org)
47 points by calvinf 16y ago|42 comments
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Funeral Industry Social Network (I'm Dying to Join)(cdsocial.com)
2 points by calvinf 16y ago|1 comments
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by calvinf 16y ago
For development, 256 works pretty well. If you host more than one site or have a lot of dynamically generated content, you can quickly surpass the 256MB limit and need 512MB. This depends a lot on the stack you're using and what software y
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by calvinf 16y ago
Blue Box Group, EC2, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Slicehost, ... there are a lot of options out there depending on the features you require and the level of support.
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by calvinf 16y ago
When I got my first VPS, I read through the articles at Slicehost: http://articles.slicehost.com/ The walkthroughs cover a variety of distros including Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS and can be quite useful regardless of where your VPS is hos
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by calvinf 16y ago
Same. I've tried their normal site and mobile site. I was excited about the sale and the chance to purchase an ebook in a format that would work on my Android phone, but this experience has dampered my excitement. As a technology publisher,
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by calvinf 16y ago
Agree. Linking to executables/installers is probably a bad habit - why not link to the download page itself so people can read more about the app?