Redesign: Habari and HTML5
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What seems like a long time ago now, I discovered an open source project called Habari.
Here was this relatively small group of people, a few of whom I was already paying attention to1, building a new blogging platform. For whatever reason, it caught my attention, and I'm very glad it did. I spent hour upon hour avoiding work and learning about Habari. The more I dug into the source the more it opened my eyes to what elegant PHP looked like. The MVC pattern and some of the class patterns used in the Habari codebase are beautiful things.
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WP-Footnotes 3.2: Release Notes
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This week saw the long awaited release of an update to the WP-Footnotes plugin for WordPress. WP-Footnotes is to easily add footnotes or sidenotes or a bibliograpy, etc. to any post using a simple mark-up which degrades (kind of) gracefully in the event that for some horrifying reason this plugin no longer works.
These notes actually cover releases 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 which all happened in quick succession.
What's been fixed
Some invalid mark up was being generated. Hopefully not anymore.
The notorious 'a' bug (I really hope).
What's been improved
Add two new styles of footnotes:
Repeated symbol, and
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Geni rocks my non-family-tree making socks off
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I've never really got into exploring my family tree, although I don't have any great aversion to doing so either. I've just never really been bothered, it never managed to get me excited. I've always expected that it would get me excited sooner or later and I'd start exploring and building, but not yet.
One thing that does tend to get me pretty excited is discovering a new web app which is super slick, uses some great technology, and does something interesting and useful. Enter: Geni.
I discovered Geni today by accident and got so excited about it that I've ... more
