Category: General
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WordCamp UK 2010
I spent the last weekend in Manchester at WordCamp UK and had a wonderful time! I went with my colleague Markus from Ponsi Interactive, who has now been officially initiated to the wonderful world of WordPress. The sessions over the two-day “informal gathering” included general stuff about using WordPress in different contexts, but also really…
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Wallace and Gromit mugs
My wife and I are big Wallace and Gromit fans. As it happens, we’ve also decided to watch all the FIFA World Cup games (I know, too much free time). This, of course, requires tea. So we ordered this lovely pair of mugs (from here), which are not entirely unlike the mugs used by W…
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Humorous error messages
No-one likes it when software crashes, but funny error messages can make a world of difference between being really pissed off, or smiling so much that you feel compelled to write a positive blog post about it. Attempting to log on to the WordPress localization service, I got this lovely error screen:
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Hello HUB Tampere
I joined HUB Tampere today with a “Hub 5” membership, and look forward to meeting interesting people and hopefully gaining cool business opportunities and perhaps other forms of collaboration too. Time will tell how it pays off!
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Flexible fluid layouts with CSS and jQuery (Part 2 in series)
In this post I’ll demonstrate with a simple example how easy it is, with CSS and a bit of jQuery, to make layouts that adapt to the many different screen sizes out there.
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Single-wrapped apples
I noticed these in the supermarket a couple of days ago. WTF? Apples, wrapped individually in styrofoam. This must be one of those things that’s helping reduce waste, I’m just too stupid to figure out exactly how…
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Make your own short URLs with WordPress
You might have noticed that I recently restored the main URL of my site to https://danielkoskinen.com . I decided it was a better idea to have my full name in the URL, and use my other domain (dani.fi) to generate my very own short URLs for use in Twitter & elsewhere.
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New “Privacy on” alert in WordPress 3.0
Sometimes it’s the little details that make you smile. When a new WP site is in development, you obviously don’t want it to be visible to search engines. A simple setting in the installation process (and the admin) allows you to choose this, but it can be easy to forget once you’ve set it. About…
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Post Types in WordPress 3.0 and Pods
One of the biggest things I have been looking forward to in the upcoming WordPress 3.0 release are Custom Post Types. Funnily enough though, now they’re actually on their way, I’m not so excited about them any more. This is mostly due to the wonderful Pods framework by Matt Gibbs and Scott Kingsley Clark. Pods…
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Bad Google!
Can anyone suggest a good online feed reader and webmail which doesn’t begin with a G? Google Buzz created quite a stir from the start, with concerns over it’s privacy policy. The first time I logged in to see what all the buzz was about, I thought is was odd enough to see “followers” who…
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