A good programming language should have features that make the kind of people who use the phrase “software engineering” shake their heads disapprovingly.
A while ago I started using Mark Jaquith’s gitified WordPress for contributing to Core.
The trouble is that the patches generated by git diff aren’t exactly the same as the ones generated by svn. I’ve tried several cooky solutions until I found this one.
I just realised that every major desktop operating system is scrambling to reinvent itself. Microsoft is working on Windows 8, which looks like will come with a HTML5 component. Apple recently launched OS X Lion, which started integrating aspects of iOS. On the Linux front, Ubuntu’s last release switched to Unity, while all the rest [...]
The main feature added in this version is the “Provides:” header. This allows virtual packages to be defined. The first advantage is that dependencies are no longer tied to plugin file paths. More importantly, you can now have dependency alternatives.
I don’t want to help random people do great work, I want to TRY to do great work myself, and CELEBRATE other people who are ALREADY doing it.
Hugh MacLeod
I keep reading the phrase “Git isn’t better than Subversion, it’s just different”. I’m sure a few years ago people said “SVN isn’t better than CVS, it’s just different”. Anyway, here’s one key aspect that shows how primitive svn is.
I like writing WordPress plugins and I like using git to version-control them. Problem is that wordpress.org uses svn. Even worse, I like to use git submodules, so git-svn is no help. What to do? Write a shell script, of course.
A significant enhancement in this version is the ability to create draft posts from the connection box. The idea is to be able to make the connections first and then write the content.
As web developers, one thing that we don’t have to worry about is concurrency. We don’t have threads, we don’t care about multiple cores etc. I came across a fascinating talk from the creator of the Clojure language [...]
Filters are the most awesome thing about WordPress, code wise.
Passing a class method to a filter, however, is not so awesome.
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