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mpraetzel on “Get Login Plugin”

Adds ‘Log In’, ‘Log Out’, ‘Register’ and ‘My Profile’ respectively to navigation listed using “wp_list_pages” and when the items are clicked a user is

Internet CEOs Go To Iraq – WordPress Twitter HowCast Google

The US State Department just sent a delegation of top Internet developers to Iraq on a 5 day mission to spread use of services to the people there. Jason Liebman from HowCast, Jack Dorsey of Twitter a VP from WordPress and a handful of people from Google all took a 3 day trip to Iraq […]

13 year old wins Apple’s Iphone Billionth Ap Download Contest

Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Conn., won the Apple Billionth Ap Download contest this week he will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro. The billionth ap to be downloaded was Bump Technologies “Bump,” which enables iPhones to share contact information from users address books. Apple has […]

Looks Like MA.TT at WordPress.com got hold of the blo.gs domain from Yahoo

blo.gs if you don’t remember was a site that showed recent posts to blogs from all over the place. You can kinda think of it as the Everyone on Twitter where you get to see real time all the tweets ….. Well it was the same idea but for recent posts for any site that […]

Is Twitter Falling Apart? New Hidden User Limits & Pages and Features That Don’t Load

Twitter is growing at a huge pace in the past few months. People are using it both from their phones and website but also from external applications that are putting HUGE demands on their backend. The Technology Twitter is using Rails and Amazon’s Backend Cloud Computing doesn’t seem to have the ability to serv users […]

Oracle To Buy Sun – WTF – Will This Kill Java, OpenOffice, MySql?

Oracle one of the largest developers of database solutions is looking to purchase Sun. This may seem like a nothing announcement but it could well play out in all of our lives. Today most Internet websites rely on MySql as the backend database that stores our content. WordPress, Drupal, Shopping Carts and just about any […]

Quest Communications Using Twitter For Customer Service WHAT?

Kinda strange concept that Quest would turn to a 140 char service to get input from their customers but what is this really about? More likely its just a marketing decision I mean you really have to hope that is the reason behind it. A number of Companies have a presence on Twitter and the […]

dsampaolo on “wp_list_sub_pages”

wp_list_sub_pages will list only pages within the same category (top-level parent) as the current page.

Time Warner Cable to Cap Internet Bandwith And Raise Plans UPTO $150 a FRICKEN Month!

If you like to watch a lot of movies, share files and videos you make online with your friends or if you are a content developer that bases their product on rich multimedia then its time to rethink your plan. Time Warner has been threatening to place caps on users throughput over their network for […]

Gmail Turns 5 Years Old Remember Asking Friends For Invites?

Its been 5 years since we all started using GMail. They launched the site back in 2004 providing more email space then most people thought they would ever use. Today with people exchanging more video and pictures that idea was probably a good forecast of what users would eventually need but giving up that much […]