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How to get up and running on Amazon EC2 quickly (for OSX people)
So I needed to set up my OSX rig to access AWS, spin up and configure an Ubuntu instance, install Apache, PHP, MongoDB and do various other tasks. Good thing I found these two great resources: Fist,...
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Style Tiles
Style Tiles Catchy name for a good idea. ”Style Guide” always seemed to vague and formal.
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What you get when you move to the cloud
Grist’s former web hardware arrived at the office today.
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Grist at WCSF12
This weekend the some of team Grist will be in SF for WordCamp. I’m really excited to get to give a talk about our journey to becoming a WordPress operation. This year (in fact, almost exactly this...
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Twitter’s new API policy in plain english
Twitter announced new API policies for version 1.1 of their API today. The announcement was accompanied by a diagram which IMHO was bit hard to understand at first and caused a bit of useless debate...
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Annoying Robots and the Chameleon Botnet
Yesterday Spider.io announced the discovery of the Chameleon Botnet, a mega-collection of infected Windows machines, based largely in the US. The purpose of the botnet is/was to generate large amounts...
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CodeWithMe Portland
So I’m at code with me in Portland this weekend. Code with me is a great organization run by Tom Giratikanon and Sisi Wei that pairs technologists and journalists to spread the foundations of HTML,...
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Embed A MoveOn Campaign: New Plugin
It’s fun to actually get to write and release a WordPress plugin at work! I just finished the initial commit on the MoveOn Campaigns Plugin … a fun little plugin for embedding MoveOn Petitions in your...
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What I’d learn if I were starting over today as a web developer
Lately I’ve been thinking of how much things have changed since I got my start on the web in the late 1990s/early 2000s, and in particular how things have changed for the beginning developer from then...
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WordPress.com hits on Tumblr on Twitter
This happened: @tumblr Hey good looking. Follow back?— WordPress.com (@wordpressdotcom) July 01, 2014
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