WordPress 2.8 (codename “Baker”) hit the World Wide Web last week and it brought a slew of new fixes, features, and improvements to the reigning number one blogging platform. This version sees improvements to the theme browser (not particularly useful to our clients and their custom themes), sidebar/footer widget functionality, admin usability and functionality, and most importantly optimized code to improve speed and the overall blogging experience. According to the official WordPress announcement post, this version brings “cooler, smoother, simpler blogging” to the masses.
Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert, aka Mr. USO, send the troops a care package
Mr. USO is really helping out the troops over there. He and Tom Hanks get together to create a care package for the troops and hilarity ensues.
Fun little microsite thrown together quickly for work for the USO and Comedy Central.
Google celebrates 25 years of Tetris
Sony and Rockstar announce PS3 exclusive spy game, ‘Agent’
Sony and Rockstar announce PS3 exclusive espionage game, ‘Agent’. Rockstar founder Sam Houser says it will be the “ultimate action game.”
Xbox 360′s Project Natal motion camera might be cool, probably stupid
The potential is there if the tech works but it’s a little scary that even in a concept video they still can’t make it look fun. The fighting, skateboard, and the Xbox Dashboard navigation look like the most promising.
via Joystiq
Qore leaks video of PSP Go! before E3
Breaking news from Engadget, with disappointing news on the PSP Go! including some really awkward placement of the analog nub.
Hello world!
New WordPress blog finally installed, old Movable Type version retired.
View the old blog at brianbehrend.com/blog. Stay tuned for more updates via automation of links, photos, videos, twitter, etc.
Font sizing: Pixels, em’s, points, oh my!
CSS-Tricks has written a good overview of the different available font sizing options within CSS including their limitations and browser peculiarities. At MarketNet our standard practice is to specify the font-size on the body tag using pixels for precision and then em‘s through the rest of the stylesheet. This allows us to easily change the size of all type on the site simply by modifying the value set on the body tag, possibly using a JavaScript font-resizer.
Search jQuery documentation from Spotlight
Just found a great productivity tool for Mac web developers from blogger Mika Tuupola, a native jQuery API dictionary for Mac OS X 10.5. Once downloaded and set up you’ll have access to the documentation within the dictionary, Spotlight searches, and via the contextual info popups in your text editor or Safari. No need to be online to access docs.jquery.com anymore.
Head over to Mika’s site for more instructions and the dictionary download file.
Note: There’s also a similar Ruby on Rails dictionary file available for download.