Earlier, WordPress 2.8 was released to the public, and it was announced by Matt over at its development blog. Although this is considered a major release, with plenty of new features, a lot of these new items are associated with the admin console and improving the blog customization and management. Of course, in addition to [...]
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What to Do When That Ol’ Tester Magic Grabs a Hold of You?
March 25, 2009 at 1:34 PM
The Setup “What should you do when that Ol’ Tester Magic grabs a hold of you?” Dunno. But what you can do is sit around at a nearby coffeehouse, drink your coffee, finish your coffee, get a refill and drink that one, and then declare to all the other crazies sitting around you that you’re [...]
Tagged as: configuration management, continuous integration, Java, Javamancy, PHP, testing
Back in 2008, just before Javamancy was launched, I had agonized over whether WordPress was acceptable for use as a weblog. I had reviewed its source code in the past, and as a result, had postponed switching to it while reviewing other competing products. Eventually, the customization aspect and mindshare won me over, and we [...]
Tagged as: authentication, open source, OpenAuth, OpenID, WordPress
WordPress 2.7.1 Now Available
February 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM · 1 comment
WordPress 2.7.1 was released a few hours ago. As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, this is a maintenance release, addressing 68 tickets. Javamancy Operations Javamancy will be upgrading to this latest version once it has completed our CM procedures. Thanks for being patient, folks! Until then, version 2.7 will be in circulation for a short [...]
WordPress 2.6.5 was released yesterday to address one critical security exploit and three additional bugs. The major security issue: there appears to be an interesting quirk that manifests as a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that impacts Apache 2.x IP-based virtual hosts. As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, they’ve released version 2.6.5 once they [...]
WordPress 2.6.3 Now Available
October 24, 2008 at 1:00 AM · 1 comment
WordPress 2.6.3 was released yesterday amidst statements that the PHP Snoopy library that WordPress uses to populate the RSS feeds in the Dashboard has a vulnerability (according to the Secunia folks). Secunia has reported on security vulnerabilities and exploits found in WordPress in the past. Secunia’s advisory on this subject simply recommends upgrading the Snoopy [...]
Javamancy Public Theme Testing
September 6, 2008 at 1:13 AM · 1 comment
“Steve, what are you doing with all those themes? Isn’t one enough?” Well, sometimes yes, and sometimes no. I’ve seen some pretty innovative (and sometimes merely pretty) blog themes floating around out there, and I was thinking that it really makes sense to “open up” some of the internal UI testing that Javamancy and other [...]
Tagged as: blog, DevPal, Javamancy, testing, theme, WordPress
Well, folks, since we switched to using the Cutline theme a few months ago, some of you have wondered about the lack of any sort of label describing the search box that is featured prominently at the upper left-hand margin of the blog. After deliberating on this concern since the introduction of the theme, I’ve [...]
I’ve been mildly irritated by the lack of the display of the posts’ time, as well as the lack of the display of the day’s name (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc.), in the post header secondary line. So, in typical Development in Anger fashion, I’ve gone ahead and modified the Cutline 3-Column 1.3 theme I’m currently [...]
