Monthly Archives: March 2010

Portland WordPress User Group Presentation Upcoming

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

I’m going to be speaking at the March Portland WordPress User Group Meeting on March 18th at 6:00pm at Webtrends and demonstrating some of the features that are coming up in 3.0. I’m aiming for this to be beneficial for both … Continue reading →

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Tweets from the week before 2010-03-08

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

#OxfordCommaMonday Writing a blog post about the WordPress settings, WP_Http, and psuedo-cron features. # http://aaron.jorb.in/2010/wordpress-external-cron-plugin/ Announce a #wordpress plugin and explaining the code behind it # Tonight is the night that Sarah learns Macaroni and Cheese shouldn't come from a … Continue reading →

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Torihamu Parmesan

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

Cooking and constructing a web presence with open source software is very similar. For one by combining the efforts of many, we can bring together a far superior product. While I usually combine WordPress with jQuery, this time I combined … Continue reading →

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Three great places in the Washington DC area

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

I recently spent some time in the Washington, DC area. While I saw way more national chain stores then I’m used to seeing in Portland, there where three great local places that I wanted to highlight to anyone traveling or … Continue reading →

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Commit: The Story of Writing a WordPress Patch

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

Hanging out in the #WordPress irc channel or on the wp-hackers mailing list, a question that comes up from time to time is “How do I get a bug patched”. I recently had a patch committed, so I thought I … Continue reading →

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Tweets from the week before 2010-03-01

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

#OxfordCommaMonday Happy Birthday to the Miracle on Ice, Don Pardo, and the Adams – Onis Treaty. # I never thought I would say this. I wish I was in Des Moines. It's Bacon Week! http://bit.ly/91ZVcu (Hattip @kellymariez77) # @kellymariez77 But … Continue reading →

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WordPress External Cron Plugin

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Aaron Jorbin

There are plenty of scripts out there that require you to request a page on a daily basis to perform certain tasks. Normally you can accomplish this by setting up a simple cron. And on a good host, that’s easy. … Continue reading →

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