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I received an email this morning from the Alexey Shelestenko (from Google) with a link to some photos from GDD 09 Moscow and this fantastic 2 minute video from the event:
This definitely is one event I’ll never forget. Lars is a superstar ;) Oh and here’s last year’s.
For quite some time now I’ve been dreaming about getting into the Facebook Platform (API, Markup Language, etc) but haven’t had good enough reasons to do so. One good friend of mine Timothy gave me those reasons not so long ago and guess what! I came up with my very first Facebook App! It’s still in the sandbox, don’t rush searching for it in the applications database...
That’s right. I’m giving out Google Wave invitations too! No VIP invites though (like the ones at Bit Rebels) and there’s no need to tweet anything to get them. The rules are simple: I know quite a lot of you readers comment here from time to time and yes, all you have to do is leave a tiny little comment to this post (please include your name and your Twitter account) to get...
Well I guess it’s time to give you a detailed update on the event of the year – Google Developer Day 2009 Moscow (Google I/O, #gdd09ru on Twitter). It was held on November 10th, with over 1,500 visitors and a few guys from Google! Here’s a little video (Chrome Experiments and the Google I/O song with the lyrics) that’s been playing around on the big screens during the...
This may seem like an easy task to do but is quite tricky in WordPress. Using a CDN these days is very popular, cheap and helps speed up your website taking the load off your web server. I personally love Amazon CloudFront! The tips at Google Code suggest you serve all your static content from different domains, preferably ones without cookies, so CDNs are perfect. All the problem with WordPress...
Here’s a little video that we’ve seen at Arvind’s and Sreeram’s presentation about speeding up the web at the Google Developer Day 2009 conference in Moscow. Inspiring isn’t it? Arvind and Sreeram talked about a very nice plugin for Firefox (built upon Firebug) which is called Page Speed, developed and maintained by the Googlers. You may read more about the plugin on...
Okay it’s official, I AM going to be at Google Developer Day on the 10th of November in Moscow. I’ve got my business cards delivered yesterday, and yeah, they could have been a little bit better, but it’s alright. I posted them out on Twitter yesterday evening, if anybody’s missed it here’s the picture: twitpic.com/odnkt. Quite simple heh? Anyways, I haven’t...
This is all about the Twitter Friendly Links plugin I’ve been working on lately. You might have noticed some 404 issues in the comments section on the plugin page, this in most cases is due to caching fail. I wrote about this a while ago when I was working on W3 Total Cache compatibility where all I had to do is set the wp_query object’s is_404 variable to false. Then again, the other...
Whether you’re a WordPress expert, beginner or simply a blogger running WordPress, WordPress MU, BuddyPress or any others, here’s a little list of WordPress blogs that you should definitely follow (not mentioning the WordPress Development Blog and Matt Mullenweg’s Blog, and maybe #wordpress on Twitter, I assume you’re following them since your first ever WordPress...
I noticed a little bug in the WP-Syntax plugin for WordPress – the line numbers don’t match when using code with comments, well at least in Firefox 3.5. I realized it was caused by the italics where the line-height increased by approximately 1 pixel. It’s not that bad when you have a couple of comments in the code, but 60 lines of code with around 10 lines of comments completely...