Terry Martin

For those who have upgraded Wordpress to 2.8 and are having problems with WP e-Commerce v3.6.12, here’s the fix regarding selecting tabs in the “Settings” option page.

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Do you have a hard time communicating with people? Maybe you should learn more about ad hominem arguments. So, I spread the knowledge…

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I came across some interesting data the other day detailing the top 300 yellow page headers for 2006. This list shows you the most popular categories listed in the local phone book, based on the number of total references to a particular category listing.
As you can see, the top 3 categories are:

Restaurants [...]

Here’s a list of directory publishers for the phone book industry.

Zendesk is a professional-grade help desk system. It has been designed using ITIL best practices and is in every possible way geared towards providing support and service. Not customer relationship management, bug tracking or project management.

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“I’d like to see an evolution of blogs as the next step for us. We use WordPress blogs as our platform in the federal government. Everybody is blogging and sharing information, which is great. Now we want to take it to the next level with smarter blogs.”

“We’re using common gadget infrastructure, such as the Apache Shindig project, and working with other gadget containers to make gadgets more portable.”

I was reading over the Google Blog regarding a new feature that allows you to add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file (e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml). I tested the feature and found that you can’t edit the Gadget settings within Gmail. So, I hacked a quick Gmail Gadget.

Graph Gear allows you to quickly render a customizable interaction graph that is described by a graph xml file. All you need to do is embed it in your page and pass the xml over javascript. It provides nice interactive capabilities and a force directed layout. The code is editable and compilable with MTASC, and it also features a javascript api to control graph interactions.

From HP Labs, Craig Sayers has produced an experimental node-centric approach to RDF graph visualization.