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Geek out: Programmers and Holidays

A friend of mine shared this little joke…some of you may appreciate it Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Click for answer Because: OCT31 == DEC25 Tweet it if you got it! Cheers, Byron

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard – NotificationExec Pop Up Annoyance

Just installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my home iMac. It was truly a perfectly painless experience…click about 4 buttons and type your password and walk away for 45 minutes. The only thing that marred the experience was a nasty and undying popup for installing Rosetta so it could run NotificationExec. Click Not Now and [...]

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Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

My gosh, these are good!  Enjoy!

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1

I’ve upgraded three sites to WordPress 2.8.1.  None of them missed a beat.  Also, PhotoSmash seems completely unfazed by its new bedfellow. The auto-upgrade function/feature purely rocks.   It takes less than a minute, while FTP’ing the entire 2.2 MB to you server can take a dozen. Thanks for the smoothness, WP Heros! Cheers, Byron

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Supple Forms – Quick Start Guide

This is a quick start guide to get you up and running with Supple Forms as fast as humanly possible. Supple Forms is a CMS plugin for WordPress that lets you add custom data to posts and pages. It is both powerful and simple to use. If you need something like this, it might just [...]

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Excel Spreadsheet of US States

Here’s a simple Excel spreadsheet of US States and their abbreviations. I don’t know how many times I’ve recreated this blooming thing. But no more. See full post for download.

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Hosting a Plugin on WordPress with Aptana and Subclipse- pt 3

Welcome back to part 3….and 4 of the video series on how to host a WordPress plugin using Aptana and Subclipse to accomplish the Subversion gymnastics.  If you haven’t already done so, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series now. At this point, you should already have an email from WordPress with [...]

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The American Dream

This post departs from WhyPad’s usual fare, but when history is being made, you must wade into the river before it passes you by. Today, America and the world stand  together in the midst of economic, political, and social ruin.  It would be unfair to blame this on any one person, nation, religion, or lack [...]

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Happy 2009!

Here’s wishing all WhyPad readers a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2009!  May we all make the world around us a little better next year. Cheers! Byron

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Congrats to WordPress Team – 2.7 “Coltrane” is Here

I have been keeping an eye on the development of WordPress 2.7 which brings in several new and very cool features.  A lot of that is behind the scenes in the Admin section, but some of it will be readily available.  A new system for Comments is one of the features I’ve been excited about. So, [...]

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