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Wordpress users get treated to a whole new administration panel...again. How long has it been since Happy Cog's redesign (wasn't that in March)? The design definitely has a 'jack ...
Christian wrote a little post asking why the Habari community was snubbed in the recent Smashing Magazine 10 Weblog Engines Reviewed post. Why was Habari not included in this list? ...
Well it's been a bit too long coming, but I think I've found a theme that I can get to grips with relatively easily. I'm going to be hacking Depo ...
Interesting developments over at Six Apart. Lets dig up some of the things I said back in the day about this shall we. For all those in the dark, MT ...
Seems like the pay for model didn't work? Can't really say why the guys over at 21 Degrees have gone the route of giving Symphony away, but having done this ...
I definitely noticed spamming coming through, which left me scratching my head (50 in like a few hours). I guess those spammers are seriously getting their ass kicked by ...
The last week has seen some movement on a couple of the open source projects I've been involved with in the past couple of years. I've already spoken about the first one but now I'm going to talk about the other project that I had such high hopes for which have been washed away and effectively thrown back into the faces of those that actually devoted their time into producing the goods, I am of course talking about Shuttle.
When the Shuttle images design were released for general consumption I expected a great number of people to jump on board and help out Matt in the implementation of the ...
Been meaning to write a proper review about this book for a good long while. Due to many commitments it's not been possible to really get into the book until now. "Blog Design Solutions" is a book that was released earlier this year (from Friends Of Ed) and was written by 8 guys from around the world; you might recognise a couple of the wee rascles, Chris J Davis, Michael Heilemann, John Oxton, Andy Budd and several others (I appologise I'm not terribly familiar with their work/sites but I'm definitely going to check them out from now on). The common link between these gents is that they're all bloggers. The difference is that they use different software to run their sites.
I'm going to ramble on a bit more about Shuttle, simply because it's been a pretty big part of my life the last year and loads of things I've wanted to talk about on this blog have been waiting for this moment in time. Everytime I would think about something cool to talk about relating this project I always had to keep on the mental shelf until after I got to this stage.
Before you read this I suggest you go and have a look at the 20 mockups showing the future of WordPress. The idea of redesigning the WordPress administration panel began believe it or not in December 2004. For over a year and a half myself, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar (later joined by Bryan Veloso) exchanged countless emails and mockups and links and ideas regarding what we thought the WordPress administration panel should be. The project was called the Shuttle Project. I now have the pleasure of presenting what we came up with and explaining the future of the project.
Update: The smaller images now click onto LARGER versions for your viewing pleasure.For the past year the Shuttle team has been working on the beautification of the WordPress administration panel. The original team was just going to be myself and a couple of coders (Chris and Joshua) who were going to take the designs I came up with and make into a reality. Luckily Michael was having the same thoughts at the time and so he joined our rag tag team. In a cunning move he brought in the inimitable Joen to the fold as well. So now we had enthusiasm (me), flair (Michael) and experience (Joen) along with Chris and Joshua ready to kick some coding ass and take names. That young upstart Veloso joined us half way through the year to add some insight and youthfulness.
This posts marks my 500th post for this little site. In the comic book industry this number is a massive one that only a handful of titles have ever achieved. Although not even close to that sort of achievement, it's nice to attain this milestone in the life of a website, that was only meant to be as an easy method to update the news section of my portfolio site. The site was originally set up to chronicle the road to getting published in the comic book industry. which is kind of fitting that I can recount the following story at this time:
I've been thinking about the whole situation and how some people might feel a bit left out of the whole design process with regards to Shuttle. So in order ...
Fellow 9ruler Greg over at Airbag Industries has posted about the lack of design in the WordPress Administration User Interface. I thought it prudent to address his concerns while at ...
Easily the single biggest draw to using WordPress (apart from the price of course, which is priceless didn't you know), is without a shadow of a doubt the actual community ...
Right this is the first time I've sent an actual question/request to Dreamhost since I started with them a while back. The question was why we don't have pspell ...
[quickpic image=shuttlelogo.jpg] I originally thought we'd have completed Shuttle a while back. Alas that has not been the case. I don't want to say I underestimated the work, but rather, ...
While 'conversing' with Phu Ly, I thought that it would be cool to organise a WordPress meetup in London. I mean why should Denmark have a meetup and the ...
So Monsieur Alex King has begun his second annual WordPress Theme design competition. Interesting. Now I remember a few people got really annoyed with the last one of these, and ...
In case you've missed it there has been some talk around a WordPress manual as proposed by Larry Ayers. This would be a manual of sorts to help out the newcomer etc. Seems that Larry has contacted Matt about this and there wasn't any else doing something similar, soo Larry thought it best to get going. Problem is Larry is tackling a subject that Podz, Craig and Carthik (to name only a small few) have been slogging away at for the past year to the best of my knowledge. In that time they've amassed an emmense amount of posts on the support forums, have kept the wiki alive and hammered away at the Codex as well. In all that time the guys haven't been paid anything, and in Podz's case actually taken a serious hit to make his manuals available online. I've said this before several times, that the only reason I chose WordPress over Textpattern was the community that was built around it. Without this community and the fact that everyone is helping out in ways they think is best, I might as well go to B2evolution or any one of the other open-source alternatives. The number of templates and plugins available for WordPress probably dwarf those of other blogging softwares. All of that work was done by the community, for the community.
Oh dear, that's really not good. Podzy seems to be a bit unhappy about what's going on with people using his guides to make money. Podz has spends HOURS on the forums helping people out whenever he can. He's also responsible for both writing up and hosting the WP guides, which for many people (myself included) have been an invaluable resourse of information. I just tried to access the things, and got my IP banned as he's password protected the guides. For example when I was moving my host over the guy (and macmanx) both came to reassure me that everything was going to be ok, and that I wasn't going to loose all my posts.
What started off as one became two. Now there are three. I've got the honour to announce the third designer for the Shuttle. Joen Asmussen, has joined the Shuttle ...