http://www.newsblogg.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I would like to wish you all a “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Kwanzaa”, “Happy Hanukkah”, “Yule Blessings”, or just plain old “Seasons Greetings” whatever you may celebrate at this time of year. All the best. http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/seasons-greetings.htm At Starbucks people have been starting “cheer chains” where they pay extra money to pick up the coffee of the person behind them in the drive-thru. Some have gone 2 solid hours. The blogger is cynical, but some of the comments are from baristas that work at Starbucks. I want ... http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/starbucks-cheer-chain.htm I’ve been looking around for a good falling snow script, as I’m a sucker for cheesy holiday javascript, but everything seems to be from the era of Netscape 6. I even found one on my own domain, but it doesn’t seem to work in Firefox. So where’s the state-of-the-art snow ... http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/falling-snow-script.htm 4 Ways to Get Banned from the Technorati Top 100. http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/banned-from-technorati-top-100.htm A WordPress 2.4 bug hunt is scheduled for Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 17:00:00 UTC. We’ll be triaging bugs, committing patches, and cleaning up the bug tracker. The hunt will last 24 hours so that all timezones can join in the fun on the #wordpress-bugs channel. The weekly IRC ... http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/bug-hunt-on-december-19th.htm Maya set us up with some WordPress hoodies for the holidays. Visit the WP shop to order yours.  These will be a bit warm for those of you in the southern hemisphere, but next fall you will be set. http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/wordpress-hoodies.htm WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems on ZDNet. http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/homegrown-cmses.htm WordPress 2.4 will feature a new format for authentication cookies and a new password hashing algorithm. Cookies will be based on the secure cookie protocol described here. The cookie is structured like so: user name|expiration time|HMAC( user name|expiration time, k) where k = HMAC(user name|expiration time, sk) and where sk ... http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/secure-cookies-and-passwords.htm Apparently a number of people who visit Jerusalem are so affected they dress up in biblical garb, preach at holy sites, and then days later don’t remember a thing. http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/jerusalem-syndrome.htm It would be interesting to talk about web applications and services in terms of the year they “graduated” and went public to the world. IMDB was ‘90; Amazon.com was ‘95; Movable Type was ‘01; WordPress.org and Typepad were Class of ‘03; Gmail was ‘04; WordPress.com, Akismet, Youtube, TechCrunch, and pbwiki ... http://www.newsblogg.co.uk/web-apps-with-class.htm