I’ve had a massive two weeks since Christmas, working feverishly on Vanilla and it’s at the stage where I need the help of hard-core WordPress devs to polish it up for a public beta. Links to the Git repository and discussion group are here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alistercameron...

A few theme designers — including yours truly — received an email from Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s boss, yesterday. It read (in full and unedited): Thanks for emailing me about the theme directory. The other day I noticed a ton of bad stuff had snuck in like lots of spammy SEO lin...

I use Twitter as a way to let others know of interesting things I see or think about, as they happen. In case you’re not following me on Twitter, here’s some of what I’ve said in the last couple of days: @jdub Headspace2 features big in this great blog post on Wordpress SEO - " tit...

Refill the coffee, Thelma. This post is long and impassioned. It might even be worth a read I’ve been impressed enough with Disqus to give it a go. I’m ok with it, but it’s not there yet. I have realised that my frustrations with its failure to import old comment threads from Wordp...

Well, I’m not sure if it’s going to kill it completely, but think about this… Ingredients 3G/HSDPA mobile phone broadband A mobile/cell phone with a 2+ megapixel camera Installed software and an account with qik.com or similar An eye for something interesting to shoot Recipe Bring ...

This is Ray Ozzie. He’s Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect. I pictured him kind of younger than that… but Microsoft ages you like nothing else. I mean, just look at Steve Ballmer! Anyway, see that link on Ray’s page… top right in the sidebar… yeah, that links to...

I’ve been talking for months now about the integration of the wonderful Sandbox and the Yahoo User Interface CSS library. Well, I’ve done it. It’s codenamed Vanilla and it’s in “closed Alpha” just for now. But with all things new, I need some people to step up to ...