Evan Sims

Video Commenting

So thanks to the hard work of Colin Devroe and the rest of the Viddler gang, WordPress bloggers now have the insanely cool option of letting folks comment on their blogs using video. The plugin, which has been in beta for a few weeks now, is freely available on Viddler’s site, and requires just a few short minutes to get setup. Super simple, incredibly slick.

Nice job guys. I love it!

Back Online

Whoo, that took quite a bit of work. I established a dedicated server with my good buddy Ryan this last week, which entailed a large migration of wordpress data from across my various sites, among other stuff. A few days later, we’re back up and operational - and with a new design, no less. I’m pretty pleased with it, though I still have to whip together the code to make the ‘Sightings’ sidebar actually work. I’ll get to it this week, anyway.

WordPress 2.3 Impressions

So as many of you are certainly well aware, the long awaited Wordpress v2.3 was released today after a long series of betas and release candidates. 2.3 has had the blogging community foaming at the mouth for one reason: tags.

You might ask yourself, if Wordpress has had categories since day one, why do we need tags? What’s so swell about ‘em? Well, my dear friend, allow me to enlighten you. Categories and tags, while similar at first glance, help you manage your content much easier than either could do alone. Think of categories like manilla folders, and tags as post-it notes on the folders. Categories help organize posts in a strict structure, but tags help identify the content of posts in those categories.

Take my Web Development category for example. I think it goes without saying- everything in there is somehow related to developing stuff for the web. However, how those posts relate to web development vary wildly. I have topics ranging from writing for APIs to setting up Apache on a Windows box. Tags allow me to mark what kind of content these posts have, and in turn makes it easier for me to identify relationships between topics. From a reader standpoint, it gives everyone a quick, one-click search for finding similar content in my site.

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Howdy.

Decided to bite the bullet and get the ol’ blog up and running again. Bare with me over the next couple days while I get WordPress and a new site design up and running.