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I decided to fork WordPress MU

By tzmartin On January 18, 2010

WordPress is a great product. I have been using WP for well over 5 years now since the 1+ days. As of today, the current release is 2.9.1 and I’m impressed with the growth of the community and the maturation of the product. Furthermore, I think WordPress MU is an excellent framework for developing applications on. So why am I forking it?

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WP e-Commerce v3.6.12 Fix: "ui.panel is undefined"

By tzmartin On July 1, 2009

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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Notes: Andrea Baker – Government 2.0 trends to watch

By tzmartin On January 26, 2009

This is interesting…

What’s the next step in blog evolution?

Andrea Baker: 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 want to bring in more plug-ins and other complimentary technologies to increase the value of our blog posts. It would also make the information easier to find. We’re always looking for better technologies to increase the findability of information that we’ve already been creating.

via ExecutiveBiz Blog» Blog Archive » Andrea Baker: Government 2.0 trends to watch.

So, you’re looking for a content management system (CMS), based on semantic standards, with an API for data portability?  Check.   Then, you’re probably interested in Semantic Press.

Mosso: Remote Address Environment Variable with WordPress 2.7

By tzmartin On January 15, 2009

I read an interesting post over at FreshClicks.net about a potential issue with WordPress obtaining the remote address environment variable when hosting with Mosso.   It seems that WordPress sees the IP address of the load balancers and not the IP address of the client.   This results from Mosso’s load balancers acting as a proxy.  This could be a problem for anyone using “REMOTE_ADDR” in an auto-scaling cloud.  But there may be a larger issue brewing for development with cloud computing.

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