Noël sure is one creative kid. Check out his “Without Music We Are Nothing” post where he speaks of his latest music-oriented projects.
Currently listening to “Carl Craig – Live @ XM (Club TV) 11/23/09” via iTunes subscription.
Next up: I think he should hit the iconic Record Time to get them to move to WordPress. 😉
I’ll be attending and volunteering at WordCamp Orlando next weekend, followed by a week of co-working near Cape Coral with the illustrious Barry Abrahamson.
Barry will be speaking on high performance WordPress and I’ll be helping with the Genius Bar, as I did at Wordcamp New York a couple of weeks ago.
Very much looking forward to it all! Telecommuting is awesome, but it makes opportunities for spending time in person with your crew that much more enjoyable.
First theme change since July 2007, I guess I was due. I had told Noël that I’d make the switch to his excellent P2 theme once he released the latest version. Since he did that on Friday, it was my turn to fulfill my end of the deal. I installed P2, made a child theme to start tweaking it to my liking with barely any effort and voilà: simple, clean, effective, I love it!
The first phase of the project my team and I worked on during our Quebec City retreat has just gone live!
WordPress.com allows you to geotag your user profile and posts. That means you can assign an earthly location to your account and to each of your posts.
WordPress.com will soon launch a Geo Search feature that will allow people to find your posts based on their locations. To show up in the search results, you need to turn geotagging on and start geotagging your posts.
Source: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/a-blog-near-you/
More coming soon on the geo-front.
Quick and dirty edit from the balcony at the Taz on Oct. 24th 2009. Max Vincent took that one! So much height and precision!
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Audio track is Galvanize by the Chemical Brothers. It was playing at the beginning of the finals so I thought it’d be appropriate.
Get or use your existing WordPress.com account, setup http://im.wordpress.com, http://p2theme.com, maybe even http://iphone.wordpress.org and our “Publicize: Twitter“, and you’ve got yourself one nice, quick, full-featured lifestreaming blog.
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“At im.wordpress.com we have been experimenting with instant delivery of blog posts and comments. We started by providing a firehose for our partners but that was only the beginning. Now you can subscribe to WordPress.com blogs in your Jabber IM client and receive posts and comments the instant they are published. It is also possible to post to blogs from the chat client. In time we plan to add these real-time features to web pages. Soon the conversations on blogs will be as fast as chat rooms.”
It’s no secret that IRC is at the heart of all things WordPress and Automattic when it comes to realtime collaboration. I hadn’t used it in years, but am now back to being logged in for substantial portions of my days.
With this in mind, I set out to install the excellent ZNC IRC bouncer on my home Linux server yesterday, coupled with the experimental Colloquy Push module to send relevant messages to my iPhone when not in front of my screen.
Couldn’t have been any easier on Centos 5 (Note: actually, if you happen to have a Mac desktop or server that is powered on all the time, unlike my laptop, Colloquy has a built-in push bouncer that makes things even easier).
Install the Fedora EPEL repo as root:
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
Install the ZNC daemon and related packages (and openssl-devel and g++ which weren’t installed on this box):
yum install znc znc-extra znc-devel gcc gcc-c++ openssl-devel
Download compile and install the Colloquy Push module:
curl -LO http://github.com/wired/colloquypush/raw/master/znc/colloquy.cpp znc-buildmod colloquy.cpp cp colloquy.so ~/.znc/modules/
Generate an initial configuration file (with SSL and Colloquy push module):
znc --makeconf
Edit the said configuration file manually to add a flag so that it stops sending push notifications to my phone if I’m already connected to the bouncer: added -attachedpush 0 to the LoadModule = colloquy line in ~/.znc/configs/znc.conf.
Opened port 6697 (the one I chose, default would be 6667) on my home router.
And that’s pretty much it.
Now instead of connecting to the Automattic IRC server directly, I connect ZNC to it permanently on my server, and connect to the said ZNC bouncer (via SSL) from both my desktop IRC client, as well as the one on my iPhone (over 3G, Edge and/or wifi).
I’ll have to wait until Monday to confirm that the push notifications are working as intended, but beyond this, it’s been stable and awesome since yesterday.
Nice!
Update: The push notifications are working great!
Update 2: I forgot to mention ZNC also has a very handy web admin module. I strongly advise SSL once more, as well as considering the -noircport flag combined with a custom port.
Update 3: After a full workweek of use, the little time I spent on installing ZNC has already proven invaluable enough for me to more than recommend it. Push notifications work brilliantly, but most of all, the buffer replay option, is the BEST FEATURE EVER! My IRC user experience has now been changed forever. Awesome!
The videos from the first WordCamp Montreal, which happened July 11-12 2009, are now all available on WordPress TV.
Here’s my entry on the event when it happened and our Fearless Leader‘s Q&A session is embedded below.
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