The Personal Site of Dan Masters

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  • Why I Really Like WordPress 2.8

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    Dan

    I have been slowly updating the sites that run WordPress over the last week or so and have started to really love WordPress 2.8. The reason for this sudden burst of affection are a couple of new features that version 2.8 introduced. The first feature that I really like is…

  • iPhone 3GS – I Got MY New Baby

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    Dan

    I was going to wait until my birthday in July but the wife gave the go ahead to get my new Iphone 3GS this morning – so I did. I was fortunate to get to the AT&T store near me when I did because the place had a constant stream…

  • iPhone Firmware 3.0 Installed and I’m Liking It

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    Dan

    It took a few hours but I finally got through to the authentication servers to update my iPhone to the 3.0 firmware. The process took about 15 minutes total and went without a hitch. The first thing that I noticed when starting up was the new Voice Memos icon on…

  • Fail: iPhone 3.0 Activation Servers Down 🙁

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    Dan

    I was super excited to see that the iPhone 3.0 software was out so I ran home to update my phone. The download happened nice and fast which was cool but when I actually tried to install the update this is what I got: Bum deal. I guess this is…

  • FeedWordPress – One Step Closer to Fixing My Problem

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    Dan

    So I posted the issue that I am having about the automatic update not pulling in the meta data for each post over on the official FeedWordPress site. I haven’t received a reply yet but in all fairness it is a free plugin so I would not necessarily expect to…

  • FeedWordPress Problems – It’s Got to Be Me, Not You

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    Dan

    I have been using the plugin FeedWordPress for quite a while now to aggregate all of the feeds for all on my sites together into a single feed. From there I take that feed and then repost it back on each site. This way I get some cool cross-pollination between…

  • WordPress 2.8 Release – Looking Good

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    Dan

    Last night WordPress 2.8 was released and I updated the idano.net website to check it out. The installation went without a hitch through the automatic upgrade process and from what I can tell nothing broke on my site. WordPress.org notes that the new items that were apart of this release…

  • Fessing Up and Building My Own WordPress Themes

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    Dan

    For client work I always work on a custom website design and layout and then transform that into WordPress template for the client’s website. For my personal sites I will admit that I generally rely on the work of others to get something up quickly and have even resorted to…

  • Playing With the WordPress iPhone 1.2 App

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    Dan

    WordPress has released their 1.2 version of their iPhone app. Noteable items that this update includes are: – Landscape Mode – New/editing pages – Comment moderation – Image resizing – Password protect posts I am using it to do this post and it seems to be working pretty well. Good…