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Well after a far more successful 2007 than I could have imagined, I’ve released the first significant feature update to the Admin Links Widget.
First, THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded the widget.  It has been downloaded an astonishing 2300 times since the inaugural release on August 14th of last year.
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Here’s a real-life example of how scope creep can absolutely kill a project you’re working on. I tend to find that this particular phenomenon tends to take hold of my projects on a regular basis, and I’ve been actively trying to combat it for quite a while now.
The project in question was a very [...]

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After the post I did a couple of days back about FlickrFight using images and not attributing them to the photographers who took and own the images, I thought it might  help to actually point to some of the things that FlickrFight is doing.
First off, they’re not copying the images, they are getting them from [...]

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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced yesterday that they have acquired the Open-Source database platform MySQL. This is a huge purchase and one of the largest acquisitions of an Open Source entity that we’ve ever seen.
The goal, says Schwartz, is to put a Fortune 500 vendor behind the innovative technology powering many next generation web-based [...]

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Bil Simser has posted an article on his blog about the release of the source code for the original SimCity under the GPL. The GPL’d version has been renamed under the original working title Micropolis to protect the trademarks of Electronic Arts who currently own the intellectual property for the Sim* franchise. If [...]

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I was sent a link to this YouTube video a couple of days ago, and it took me a bit of time to get around to watching it in its entirety. When you stop to think about what this means for the future of gaming, the future looks pretty cool. This type of [...]

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I’ve just put the finishing touches on the latest version of the Random Image Plugin that I originally released in the summer.  This plugin will allow you to produce an <IMG> tag containing a randomly selected image from a folder of your choice on any wordpress page (or post if you allow php).
The two biggest [...]

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This news is a couple of weeks old now, the latest version of it’s development software, Visual Studio 2008 (formerly codenamed “Orcas”) has gone RTM.  The newest version of (imho) the best IDE on the market follows the “Whidbey” release and has also shipped in “Express” editions.
For those of you who haven’t read my previous [...]

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I’ve covered a few stories on this blog [1], [2], [3] where Microsoft is making some positive strides toward opening up to the concept of open source, particularly in relation to it’s software development arm.
On October 3rd Scott Guthrie, manager of the teams who build the development and platform tools at Microsoft, announced that the [...]

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Exactly 2 months ago, I released my Random Image Selector plugin for wordpress.  Every now and again I take a look and see how many people are downloading the random image plugin.
On average, in the exactly 2 months since it’s release about 15 people are downloading the plugin.  And on September 22nd, it hit the [...]

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