Nice idea from Jane Hart, your top 10 tools (will be reading through that list with interest). Here are mine, in no particular order :) On the laptop… Firefox – Well, duh, what’d browsing the web be without it. EditPlus 2 – Best . Text . Editor . Ever . Filezilla – A tad annoying …
Author Archives: James
Twitter and VodPod edublog widgets
Just can’t tweet enough? Back once again with those VodPodding beats? Come on over to edublogs – ‘cos we’ve got Twitter and VodPod widgets setup and ready to go for you! Have been doing a few individual WP installs of late – and the more I do them, the more I realise how much of …
Killer app X about 20
About time – finally a slideshare tool that allows you to synch audio – brilliant! And, what’s more – you can just copy and paste the code they offer for wordpress.com into your edublog and, bingo, your slides will be fully embedded.
About time too
Yay! So, after failing to get a WPT via even the most blatant of hints, and even though red ‘aint my favourite colour (maybe I’ll get a free blue one ;) I just parted with GBP14 for this little number. I haven’t been so excited about a T-Shirt since Ned’s Atomic Dustbin released God Fodder …
WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin
One word… nice!
Getting an edublogs makeover
It’s been a good week at edublogs! We’ve successfully upgraded the entire site, installed a whole heap of groovy new functionality,the purpose of which will become clear in the very near future… And added another 20 themes (so there are now 86) many of which now come with completely customisable headers… just upload an image, …
Sponsored links, and money for new rope
If you’re at all interested in the WP-theme-sponsored-link debate, you should most definitely read this post from wpdesigner.net. I guess I’ve been thinking about this more from a philosophical standpoint, related to WPMU DEV Premium in a way, along the lines of where and how OS meets commercial, and if, and why and what of …
Embedding your voicethreads on Edublogs
So it looks like everyone else has caught up with Alan and Stephen, and started creating Voicethreads, which are rather cool really. So, todays bit of Edublogs news is a guide as to how you can embed your very own thread in your Edublog. And how, in fact, you can easily embed any flash object, …
Introducing WPMUDEV Premium
Ladies and Gents, we give you WPMUDEV Premium. This is a joint project between Andrew Billits and myself that aims to find a way to provide complex custom plugins, materials, hacks and support for WordPress MultiUser (WPMU) for a fraction of the amount you’d have to pay a developer. It’s already stuffed full of goodies; …
A matter of belonging
Fascinating example of community facilitation gone somewhat askew (some might say very!) over at the WordPress.com forums over the last few days. To sum it up, drmike, a ridiculously active and giving moderator / helper both there and at the WPMU forums got his credentials revoked. Now, obviously I don’t know *anything* about the stuff …