Category: WordPress

  • I STILL hate Drupal

    About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post titled “I Hate Drupal.” It’s turned out to be one of the most popular and enduring posts on this blog. The post continues to draw traffic and comments despite its age. Why then, you might ask, did I lose my mind and recommend and…

  • Another old-school moment

    I’m on vacation on the Cape. We’re having a blast. But this isn’t about the fact that we walked along the beach at dusk and had it all to ourselves or the fact that it’s so quiet and peaceful at our undisclosed location that I never want to leave. Instead this post is about WordPress…

  • The sweet smell of retaliation, or how a great blog can really mess you up

    At work, we use Clicky web analytics to supplement our web statistics. It’s a great service, and Sean at Clicky has always answered my questions quickly and personally. In short, they’re exactly the kind of people you want to work with. So, I can imagine how furious he must have been when he had to…

  • WordPress 2.5 rocks

    I know I’ve been very lax about blogging here because launching a whole new category of enterprise application development software is taking up all my time. Still, I am compelled to stop for a moment and give WordPress 2.5 maximum love for being a killer upgrade. Installation was a snap, and the single problem I…

  • Shiny new blog

    One of my favorite New Wave tunes was New Toy by Lene Lovich which contained the memorable chorus “I want a new toy, Oh ay oh!” OK, so poetry it ain’t. But we loved dancing to it at Spit on Lansdowne Street. Anyway, that chorus comes to mind tonight because I have just (finally!) upgraded…

  • OK, I admit it…the borg have won

    Those of you who know me well know that on one topic I have been completely consistent: for years I’ve considered Microsoft the ultimate market bully who simply assimilated (or copied) any technology or company it wanted to. To this day, the blood feud between IBM and Microsoft on the messaging and desktop application battle…

  • Steal not this unreadable blog

    I’ve written here before about the almost religious feelings I have about WordPress (here and here)…and about the amazing community it has spawned. It was a big disappointment for me that I wasn’t able to attend WordCamp last month. As a consolation, PodCamp Boston 2 is coming up and I can’t wait. One of the…

  • reCAPTCHA isn’t Boston-ese for being repeatedly tagged for speeding on the Pike

    Try as I might, I just khant imitate a Boston accent

  • C’mon and gimme that ole time subculture

    First, I hope this racy image won’t have the MPAA giving my blog an R rating…but it was such a cool graphic I couldn’t help myself. Well…ahem…back to the post at hand. I’ve been taking some…uh…commentary from both friends and business associates about my apparent infatuation with all things blog and podcast, but especially about…

  • The love affair continues

    If you even lightly press the “talk technology” button on Alex, you are more than likely going to get a lot of gushing from me about WordPress. Since I first found WordPress 2.0 in the early summer, I’ve been amazed at what I, last a developer 15 years ago, could do with this industrial-strength, multi-user…

  • Amazing doesn’t describe it

    I’m in love…with WordPress. Since late July, I’ve been using this amazing system to produce blogs. What blows me away is that this system has all the features of industrial-strength commercial software. Having been in the software biz since the 70s, I never thought I’d ever be able to say that about an open-source, GPL-licensed…