There are some exciting innovations coming out of WordPress. Watch Matt’s presentation for the comlpete Dish. Here are a few slide highlights to whet your appetite:
Total number of WordPress 3.2 downloads in the first two days:
Reported hourly rates for WordPress developement:
Adjusted developer rates after removing the “outliers”
Number of people making a living solely from WordPress development:
Total number of WordPress plugin downloads:
Exciting times if you are a WordPress developer!
The Shapes of CSS is an awesome resource. I do a lot of CSS but I am by no means a CSS guru. There are at least a couple dozen examples, including squares, circles, ovals, stars, triangles (left, right, up, down) PacMan and others.
The CSS for each shape is provided for each one and takes most browser compatibility issues into account. How easy is it to use? I just copied the HTML snippet with CSS and dropped it into this post. Is that easy enough?
SAMPLES:
The CSS:
#heart {
position: relative;
width: 100px;
height: 90px;
}
#heart:before,
#heart:after {
position: absolute;
content: "";
left: 50px;
top: 0;
width: 50px;
height: 80px;
background: red;
-moz-border-radius: 50px 50px 0 0;
border-radius: 50px 50px 0 0;
-webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(-45deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
-o-transform: rotate(-45deg);
transform: rotate(-45deg);
-webkit-transform-origin: 0 100%;
-moz-transform-origin: 0 100%;
-ms-transform-origin: 0 100%;
-o-transform-origin: 0 100%;
transform-origin: 0 100%;
}
#heart:after {
left: 0;
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
-o-transform: rotate(45deg);
transform: rotate(45deg);
-webkit-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
-moz-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
-ms-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
-o-transform-origin: 100% 100%;
transform-origin :100% 100%;
}
A few more:
Talk Bubble
WordPress users take note:
Those plugins that have not been updated in two years will be hidden both in the repository and in the WordPress admin plugin search. I’d say this is a big win for all WordPress users worldwide.
Good stuff. In Internet time even two years is being gracious. Details
I finally got my Google Games so I had to check them out. Many, many years ago I played bejeweled on MSN Gaming Zone, if that is even still around, so I decided to play it for the test run. I can’t spot the patterns and discern the shapes like I used to but, hopefully, those types of pattern recognition skills can be re-trained. If not I’m screwed because identifying patterns is a big part of what I do to make a living.
Anyway, since there aren’t many people playing yet I am in the top five scores, with some pretty notable company.
Like he says in his G+ profile, Tom is enjoying being retired.
It’s gotta be close. You decide:
Are you tired of getting your ass kicked at Rock, Paper, Scissors?
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The “Thanks Guys” at the end is a big give away.
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And it seems its Google Plus:
Realtime Search was, until last month, the search giant’s method of delivering relevant data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media services in real time. Whenever a major current event made headlines — such as Osama bin Laden’s death — Google Search would start displaying tweets and Facebook updates from users talking about the recent developments. It made Google‘s search engine more relevant during major world events.
It didn’t last, though. Google took Realtime Search down in July after it failed to come to an agreement with Twitter for continued access to Twitter‘s firehouse of data. Without a constant stream of tweets, the product was far less useful.
I’m not a huge tweeter but it kinda pisses me off that Twitter refuses to allow other people’s content to be freely distributed because they aren’t making enough money off it. If I were a huge tweeter, I would want my tweets indexed and served by Google. Especially when they are the most relevant. Wouldn’t you?
At any rate, if G+ is as successful as it seems it will be, I would imagine that Twitter might become a bit more reasonable about providing access to their stream. If you drive a lot of traffic to twitter, you should be getting paid by twitter.
