Lattes and Mobile Posting

This is just a quick post to test a new mobile client for Word­Press. I haven’t had the chance to keep this site updated while away from the com­puter. Hope­fully, this soft­ware will allow me to make new entries from an iPhone while trav­el­ling.
The pic­ture is just another exces­sively noisy Star­bucks packed with people using the new glossy MacBooks.

Revised Thumbnail Creator for the Revolution Pro Theme

Some people were expe­ri­enc­ing prob­lems with the orig­i­nal thumb­nail gen­er­a­tor. Automa­tor is not exactly a robust piece of soft­ware making debug­ging not much fun.

I’ve broken the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tion in three parts with a main work­flow call­ing each one in turn. Although this is less ele­gant and a bit more com­pli­cated to install, it should be more reliable.

The down­load now con­sists of folder con­tain­ing 4 mini work­flows. Here’s how to get it work­ing: [Read more]

WordPress 2.5 Released

As it had been pre­dicted, Word­Press 2.5 has just been made avail­able coin­cid­ing with Word­Camp Dallas.
This blog is already run­ning the new ver­sion and the upgrade was as pain­less as pos­si­ble. It took less than 15 min­utes, and that was mostly due to the slow upload­ing of files. Just make sure to check that all your plu­g­ins are up-to-date and that none of them con­flicts with release 2.5. A good place to check for plugin com­pat­i­bil­ity is the Plugin Com­pat­i­bil­ity 2.5 list main­tained by the Word­Press com­mu­nity. Full direc­tions to upgrade are listed in the Upgrad­ing Word­Press guide. [Read more]

Thumbnail Creator for the Revolution Pro Theme

I’ve been unsuc­cess­fully look­ing for a way to auto­mate the cre­ation of thumb­nails for use in the home page of the Rev­o­lu­tion Pro Media Theme. After trying dozens of share­ware and free­ware titles, each one with its own lim­i­ta­tions, I’ve decided to write an Automa­tor plugin to gen­er­ate resized images that fit the slots in theme’s front page. The major prob­lem with the light­weight share­ware pro­grams was either the lack of pre­sets for spec­i­fy­ing mul­ti­ple dimen­sions for the icons, or the incon­ve­nience of access­ing those pre­sets. A large pro­gram like Pho­to­shop seemed an overkill for such a triv­ial and often repeated task.
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McBilly.com: Revolution Theme Giveaway

McBilly.com tech­nol­ogy and news web­site has announced it will be giving away one copy of the cel­e­brated Rev­o­lu­tion Word­Press theme. The Rev­o­lu­tion was designed by Brian Gard­ner and it’s pos­si­bly the most suc­cess­ful “magazine-​style” pre­mium theme avail­able. [Read more]

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