Archive for the ‘Brave New Code’ Category

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WPTouch iPhone/iPodTouch Theme

WPTouch iPhone/iPodTouch Theme
Thursday, April 3, 2008
/ Apple & All Things Mac, Brave New Code, Programming

Here’s a little teaser trailer for the new iPhone/iPodTouch theme that Dale Mugford and myself are launching soon. It’s a Wordpress theme that will allow your blog to be viewed properly on iPhone/iPodTouch devices. We’ve also integrated with blip.tv so that you can view iPhone specific videos on the device.

Also, make [...]

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Title Tags And Wordpress

Title Tags And Wordpress
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
/ Blogging, Brave New Code, Programming

I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last few months trying to understand how search engines work, and how sites get indexed. In my last article, I recommending that the XML Sitemap generator for Wordpress should be installed on sites to help with search engine crawling. On this site, Google [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 Beta

Wordpress 2.5 Beta
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
/ Blogging, Brave New Code, Wordpress

Today I took the plunge and quickly upgraded my Wordpress installation from 2.3.3 to the Beta for 2.5. In terms of look and feel on the front-end, I doubt you’ll notice any major changes (especially on sites where you don’t have to login). However, they’ve completely overhauled the administration section in the [...]

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Media Burner Beta

Media Burner Beta
Thursday, February 21, 2008
/ Blogging, Brave New Code, Programming, Web Hosting, Wordpress

As you can see, I’ve been trying to push out some of these plugins that have been on my plate for a while. The Media Burner one is now officially in beta.
Media burner automatically extracts media files (MP3, FLV, YouTube, etc) from your blog posts and creates a site-wide player.

An example in [...]

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Viper Cache Alpha Reviewed

Viper Cache Alpha Reviewed
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
/ Blogging, Brave New Code, Programming, Wordpress

Well, this is interesting. I gave a few individuals an alpha version of the Viper Cache plugin I’ve been working on. It has just been reviewed on Anieto2k, one of the largest plugin sites. The author compared it against all the Wordpress plugins available today for caching. The full write-up [...]

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How To Make Your Website Or Blog Faster

How To Make Your Website Or Blog Faster
Sunday, February 17, 2008
/ Blogging, Brave New Code, Programming, Web Hosting, Wordpress

There are a lot of different ways you can increase the speed of your website, even if you have relatively cheap hosting. If you’re lucky, your blogging platform already has a caching engine built in (Drupal does). If you’re unlucky, and running something like Wordpress, you have to do a bit more [...]

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Digg Categories In Need Of A Serious Overhaul

Digg Categories In Need Of A Serious Overhaul
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
/ Around The Web, Brave New Code, Technology

I love Digg. I surf it at least a couple times a day, usually when I’m bored, sitting a work waiting for something to compile. I would say that without a doubt the majority of my “cool” news actually comes from Digg.
Lately I’ve begun submitting the odd story on [...]