We all know what the WordPress Loop is right? If not, there are many great tutorials around the web that explain the WordPress Loop. One of the easiest ways to navigate and manipulate the loop is to use the function called query_posts. Nathan Rice... Weblog Tools Collection »
What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6: Just like it sounds, Ozh has started a post, followed by a lively comment thread, on the challenges that can be faced by plugin coders with WordPress 2.6. This might be a good time (WordPress 2.6 Beta 2... (posted on 2 Jul 2008 by Weblog Tools Collection)
The vendors like to tout auto-discovery as a feature that solves the problem of discovery - how to populate a Configuration database and keep it populated. It isn't. [Oh alright, I'll call it a CMDB so long as we all understand I don't mean the... (posted on 1 Jul 2008 by The IT Skeptic)
Yesterday, IBM announced the availability of WebSphere version 6.1. With this release, the focus was on Web 2.0 and support for JSR 286/ WSRP 2.0. Please check out what is new in IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 -http://my.advisor.com/doc/19519 (posted on 1 Jul 2008 by Portlets Development & Portals)
BgPatters is the perfect tool if you are looking for a background pattern for your themes. Of course you can create stunning patterns with creativity but these kind of tools are for the ones who want a quick solution or doesn’t have skills to do it from... (posted on 1 Jul 2008 by Technology Bites)
Have you ever felt that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that your code is error-free and complies with the latest standards? In terms of programming skill, web authors are too-often seen as the bottom of the barrel (you will notice I didn’t call them ‘web... (posted on 1 Jul 2008 by Free Software Magazine)

30 Jun 2008

Evil BETAs Attack!

Read this awesome "The BETA Mindset: Public Enemy #1" piece from Mike R (BTW, it is a MUST-read). The maybe refresh on what I said after reading "Geekonomics." Then think!Yes, it is available today (as beta maybe - but then again "all software is... (posted on 30 Jun 2008 by Anton Chuvakin on Security)

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