Category Archives: WordPress

Feature request: OAuth in WordPress

Jul 2nd – 5pm

In the past couple days, there’s been a bit of a dust-up about some changes coming to WordPress in 2.6 — namely disabling ATOM and XML-RPC APIs by default.
The argument is that this will make WordPress more secure out of the box — but the question is at what cost? And, is there a better [...]

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The Existential DiSo Interview

Jan 23rd – 12am

The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo.
Here’s what I asked myself:
how are you?
we’re going to talk about diso today? is that right?
what is diso?
you say it’s a social network, so how would it work with wordpress?
how is this different from myspace or facebook?
so who’s involved in this project?
so what comes next?
how is this [...]

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The problem with open source design

Jan 3rd – 12am

I’ve probably said it before, and will say it again, and I’m also sure that I’m not the first, or the last to make this point, but I have yet to see an example of an open source design process that has worked.
Indeed, I’d go so far as to wager that “open source design” is [...]

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