Monthly Archives: November 2009

Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 24, 2009
Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It’s perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals. http://themeshaper.com/thematic/
Posted in CMS, PHP, Wordpress | 9 Comments

WordPress Wins CMS Award

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 18, 2009
For the very first time WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This truly marks a paradigm shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more [...]
Posted in CMS, PHP, Wordpress | 1 Comment

Lunch 2.0 with Bing!

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 9, 2009
Well, it’s official. The folks over at SHIFT Communications, especially Marie Williams and team, have done it again… Done what you ask? Well, I’ll tell you — they have thrown a wonderful get together known to Bay Area folks fondly as Lunch 2.0. It was over at Powerset’s sweet office and was a wonderful chance [...]
Posted in Bing, Free Shit, Lunch 2.0, Marie Williams, Microsoft, PHP, SHIFT Communications, Terry Chay | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Microsoft’s sweet new program – WebsiteSpark

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 6, 2009
So, in light of Microsoft’s new “Make Web Not War” campaign and if you find yourself using Microsoft’s Web technologies and are wanting a cost conscience solution in these tough economic times you owe it to yourself to check out this exciting new program. Microsoft has a new program – WebsiteSpark — A program that offers visibility, support [...]
Posted in Microsoft, WebsiteSpark | 7 Comments

Closure Tools

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 5, 2009
If you like me write a great deal of JavaScript-intensive applications than some congratulations, are in order for the Closure Tools team at Google today they announced the open sourcing of their Closure tools (Closure Compiler, Closure Library, Closure Templates, and Closure Inspector) which is so awesome because all of those projects started as 20% [...]
Posted in Google, JavaScript, Open Source | 3 Comments

QR Code Reader for iPhone

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 3, 2009
So, what’s a QR Code matrix code you ask? Well, wait no further — just look, at the square image on the right… side of this post! Well, that there my friend is a QR Code. (The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”) it is a two-dimensional bar code developed by Denso-Wave way back in [...]
Posted in Google, Random Musings, hardlink (physical world hyperlinks), iTunes Store, preillyme | 3 Comments