20090511 Site update in progress

Dear subscribers, occasional readers and visitors referred by Google who may possibly read this before their lovely short attention span times out: I’m performing a very much needed and as much delayed update in the website. The changes are mostly cosmetic (in the templates), for taking advantage of newer features of WordPress such as tags, [...]

20090509 WordPress mistery solved!

Whenever I looked at source code from WordPress there was something that always irked me, and it was their recurrent use of this style of comparisons: if(2 == $x) I have been using the totally opposite style from the very first time I typed a comparison into a computer… and that was eons ago, so [...]

20090113 How to recruit curious people, the automattic way

I was doing some feeds processing and needed to check their HTTP headers. Oh the surprise when I saw this line among the headers returned by blogs from wordpress.com: X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. They aren’t the first ones to find prospective [...]

20070625 Delicatessen: a wordpress plugin

I just gave the finishing touches to my first public wordpress plugin: Delicatessen. Sounds yummy, doesn’t it? If you’re a veeeeeeeery curious person (just like me) you’ll love this plug-in. It should satisfy your innermost desires and much more. Well, not that much but at least it will allow you to find who’s linking you [...]

20060326 Switching is good stuff

It had to happen. When you’re all day long working with php and mysql, smarty and whatnot, the last thing you want to do when you have some free time is to continue fighting with the same issues once and once again.