Archive for the ‘wordpress’ Category
April 30th, 2008 by
Miss604
34 Comments
Tonight’s WordCamp Vancouver has received the stamp of approval by the WordPress overlords and has been listed on WordCamp Central, the official WordCamp site.
WordPress is build on PHP and a backend MySQL database. In plain English it’s what millions of people (including Miss604.com) use as a blogging and content management system. Here’s the official description: [...]
Full post
Posted in live blog, vancouver, wordcamp, wordpress
April 29th, 2008 by
Miss604
13 Comments
I just upgraded my WordPress to 2.5.1 and to celebrate as well as promote WordCamp Vancouver this week, I’ve recorded a quick little screencast.
This video has been edited for time on Flickr.
A full version it can be viewed on Viddler.
I just used my MacBook’s internal mic so I know some folks will be cringing at [...]
Full post
Posted in flickr, screencast, vancouver, video, wordcamp, wordpress
April 28th, 2008 by
Miss604
16 Comments
The good folks at Brave New Code, specifically Dale Mugford and Duane Storey (or “D Squared” as I have just this minute decided to call them) have been working on a theme for mobile viewing of your WordPress blog.
Here’s how it works:
Coming this Wednesday WPtouch will be released to the world
Head to BraveNewCode to [...]
Full post
Posted in geeky, iphone, wordpress
April 22nd, 2008 by
Miss604
20 Comments
Over the last few years John and I have given some tips, pointers, coded pages, created themes and shared our wealth of knowledge about WordPress.
Want to know how to move from Blogger to WordPress? Want to know the difference between WordPress.com and an actual WordPress-powered site? What’s the deal with plugins and which will [...]
Full post
Posted in blogs, conference, internet, vancouver, wordcamp, wordpress
February 23rd, 2008 by
Miss604
6 Comments
As everyone slowly trickles in the auditorium for day two and the official ‘conference’ portion of Northern Voice, we prepare for another day of social media geekery.
This morning starts with a keynote from Matt Mullenweg, otherwise known as the father of WordPress and much more. Once again I’ll be semi-live blogging throughout the day, [...]
Full post
Posted in conference, live blog, northernvoice, nv08, vancouver, wordpress
February 12th, 2008 by
Miss604
6 Comments
Leading up to that special day that Hallmark created for us this Thursday, I want to feature things that I love, or maybe even just like-like a lot. Sure, my husband, family and friends are a given but these are some of the intangibles, some things that honestly, I wouldn’t be able to be without [...]
Full post
Posted in flickr, wordpress
August 8th, 2007 by
Miss604
5 Comments
I’ve discovered some tools, apps and tricks that have made a part of my ‘real life’ job a lot easier lately. Basically I wanted to start screencasting - providing an online demo video of our new web-based application. After searching and putting the word out to the wonderful Vancity Tech Swarm folks I found the [...]
Full post
Posted in business, geeky, mac vs pc, screencast, wordpress, work
July 20th, 2007 by
Miss604
No Comments
I heard about WordCamp a little while ago because I have Matt on my Twitter and he mentioned something about tickets.
WordCamp is a 2-day conference for WordPress users and developers. The first day will focus on how to be a better blogger, the second on the development and future of WordPress. …To get WordPress users [...]
Full post
Posted in conference, wordcamp, wordpress
June 13th, 2007 by
Miss604
10 Comments
My boss sent me an IM on Skype the other day talking about how fun it would be to work with the following people - and I wholeheartedly have to agree. I mean my office is pretty fun, very relaxed, but this is just hilarious.
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on [...]
Full post
Posted in video, wordpress, work
April 1st, 2007 by
Miss604
5 Comments
I was reading Airdrie’s blog post about not joining Twitter [wiki], where she links to a Rocketboom video about how annoyingly addictive the service can be.
I decided to start Googling around found a couple funny Twitter spoofs. Now I’ve never been a huge Star Wars [wiki] fan, and I have been blogging all night [...]
Full post
Posted in geeky, internet, twitter, website news, wordpress