I was very surprised to see ATOM 1.0 did not make it into WordPress 2.1, especially considering I installed a third party implementation months ago (can’t remember from who at this stage) . Sam points the guys to plenty of implementations. All feeds from LouderVoice will be ATOM 1.0. UPDATE 1: I actually read this post by Matt before I blogged and somehow managed to completely miss the mention of ATOM.
Finally the question is answered: LouderVoice is all about reviews but with a BIG difference. Instead of expecting you to spend time and effort writing reviews for us, we’re about your reviews on your blog building your reputation. We provide the tools that enable you to publish structured reviews to your blog (hReview for the techies out there) and we’ll help everyone else to find your reviews, read them on your blog and then rate them and relate them to reviews by other bloggers.
If you run any version of WordPress on a WeFaction hosted account you’ll run into the problem of sendmail being disabled so none of the notification mails get sent out. The way around this is to install the wpPHPMailer plug-in which uses SMTP instead. To get around the catch-22 of needing it installed to get your WP password, you’ll have to do the WP install, then go into phpMyAdmin and change your password using the MD5 function in the wp_users table and then login and enable the plugin and set the mail server options.
If you live and breathe web development, then head on over to the main company site to see what we are looking for.
I’m heading over to the second Irish BarCamp in Waterford this Saturday. I currently don’t plan to give any talks as I have had zero time to prepare anything (darned start-ups!). I will be on one of the panels and I’ll be actively contributing to lots of the discussions (like Donncha‘s). If you spot me, do say hello. I’m staying the Saturday night so there’ll be tons of time to shoot the breeze.
I was excited for a very short period this evening when I spotted on Ryan Carson’s blog that there was an opportunity for web app startups to get on stage for 10 minutes in front of the entire audience of FOWA. There were only three spots left. I was just about to shoot off an email saying “me me me” when I spotted the final line “The cost is £5k”.
Ah c’mon, no “Best Microformats Blog”? Or “Best use of the word Beta in a Blog”? There are, however, categories for Best Business Blog and Best Newcomer…….. Head on over and vote for all your faves. Technorati Tags: iba2007, Irish+Blog+Awards, Damien+Mulley
The past week has been very educational with the bugs and issues being reported by the Beta Testers. We actually went with Friends and Family, many of whom are non-technical to do the first round of testing. I really wanted to see how they interacted with the site. Whilst we gave instructions on use, they were not overly detailed on purpose. In any case most testers didn’t read them 😉
With 1.5 hours to spare we have just issued the first Beta Test invite. That means we meet our Q4 2006 deadline 🙂 Phew. More invites coming soon.
We’ve been using WebFaction for all the LouderVoice hosting mainly because they come highly recommended by the TurboGears and Python communities (and donate to the TG project). So far we’ve been very happy with the service, performance and ease of deployment. Their recent launch of an API which allows people to script one-click installs of many applications for use by others has proven to be a very popular move. They have just given one more reason for using them: They’ve added one long-running process and 40MB of RAM to all plans.
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