Patrick Havens on November 16th, 2008

Here I’m playing with the WordPress iPhone App on my touch and I’m wondering. I’m getting the Blackberry Storm next week and I know of tons of people who already have crackberries, but I haven’t seen or heard of even one bloggy app for it. I have heard of a Windows Live Writer for mobile [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 19th, 2008

I have to say that one of the more interesting takeaways from WordCamp was how wildly used it was.  There was great presentations of how Education has turned towards it.  There was a presentation about a project to use WordPress as a backend to create your own personalized Social Network.  But the most interesting in [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 16th, 2008

Below is a tune, you should know.  Go back in time and tell me what show this was.
Mystery Song
You have 10 minutes to post, and the first post wins!

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Patrick Havens on July 28th, 2008

I had posted on The Wordcamp Report, but I figured I’d let you all know that WordCamp San Fransisco is coming up and looking good.   They’ve gone ahead and picked a new larger (more comfortable) location… I’m assuming modeled off of the very successful WordCamp Dallas.  And they also lowered the cost a little and [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 22nd, 2008

Mind these shell commands are more for those who have shell access to their domains and are having to deal with upgrading many WordPress installs or are just wanting to be lazy.  If you look at it, you’ll see its very simplistic, and I didn’t do “garbage collection.” In otherwords I left the install files [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 15th, 2008

WordPress version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, [...]

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This is the first of a series of articles I will post here on The MAD Blog about my theories, methods and processes concerning how to draw caricatures. A lot of this information is part of what I teach my theme park artists, so it is derived partly from the approach of doing live, quick-draw [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 6th, 2008

I like Sony for only a few things. But their Playstation staff have done an amazing job of building ground swell, and keeping everyone updated and excited. One reason is a very clean and professional blog. It’s feel is because of some great work of some designers using WordPress as its back-end. [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 5th, 2008

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 13th, 2007

Alex King has written a number of plugins, including ones used on this site. So it was with interest I read about his latest contract project for Yahoo.? He was asked to help code a plugin to integrate a number of Yahoo’s services in WordPress with a plugin called Yahoo Shortcut’s.
The examples he gave [...]

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