Matt Mullenweg, WordPress founder is in Dubai! There’ll be a meetup and here are the details:
Who: Matt, and other WordPress users.
What: WordPress user meetup with Matt.
When: Friday, January 2nd 2009.
Where: Montgomery Golf Course – Dubai, UAE.
Why: To meet Matt and other fellow WordPress users.
RSVP to this event.
Why do I live in Abu Dhabi again? (Another city in the UAE) All the cool stuff happens in Dubai, lol. 
Well, you’ve seen the logo’s color change (Ctrl+F5 if you don’t), you’ve seen the snow falling here on the site (Brr.. its cold.). All of these things are Christmas decorations, and it’s finally here!
I don’t celebrate Christmas, which makes me feel left out, so exactly one year ago (2007), I made Shaibz-mas. My own holiday! 
How awesome is that? (Just kidding, lol.) I hope everyone has a fun and safe Christmas this year, and a happy new year!
Wow, I thought that they’d start working on 2.8 sometime in February or something 
Go WP Devs!
Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it’s available (almost 600,000 downloads as I write this!), it’s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the Ideas forum, so there are a lot of potential features under consideration.
Right now, the lead developers are thinking the top priorities for 2.8 will be widget management, theme browser/installer and performance upgrades. The rest of the development time will be taken up with bug tickets and additional features/enhancements from a prioritized list. To that end, we’ve posted a new survey for you to help us prioritize features for 2.8. The list pulls from the developers’ “2.7 leftovers” list as well as the most popular features from the Ideas forum. Just rank each feature and tell us your top pick (up to three). You also have the option of adding comments or additional suggestions, but this is not mandatory. For your response to count, you must rank all of the features in the list. The survey has only one page.
Note that media features are not included in this list as we will be posting a separate survey for media-specific features soon.
Cast your votes any time this week, but as always the sooner the better. This survey will close at noon on December 31, 2008 UTC.
In the new year, we will be reviving scheduled IRC developer chats, where the lead developers will discuss the week’s progress on feature development, providing opportunities for people to ask questions or make suggestions. These will be held early in the day on Wednesdays (U.S. Wednesday), and the specific time will be posted here on the development blog once it’s been finalized.
As a related aside, we spent a significant amount of time during 2.7 development sifting through Trac tickets that really shouldn’t have been there. Feature ideas and requests do not belong in Trac, they belong in the Ideas forum. Please reserve Trac for reporting bugs and things that need fixing (typos, code enhancements, etc.). If you are asking for a new UI, a new feature, or a new approach to coding something, that’s not an enhancement, it’s a new feature. New features will be entered into Trac by developers once it has been determined that the feature should be included in core. To help speed up development, moving forward we will close Trac tickets that are actually feature requests, with the comment that they should be posted in the Ideas forum instead. Please help the developers maximize their time by following this guideline.
Thanks for your help!
Something I made…
Enough for now…
You know, for a while I thought the_date for WordPress was 100% good… Them I found out it sucks! Sometimes it doesn’t show, sometimes it shows up in different formats so here’s what I’ll use from now on…
1 | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> |
Output: December 22, 2008
Simple, and easy.
How to make your own phpinfo page…
Simply create a .php page and add this to it:
1 | <?php phpinfo(); ?> |
How simple…
I spend hours working on this blog of mine, this includes content, appearence, randomness, everything! However, IE is an ungrateful creation which seems to disagree with my methods of coding, and decides not to display them properly. Thus this ecourages me to support Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. This site is best viewed with Mozilla Firefox 3, on a screen reseloution of 1024×768 or higher.
Close This Panel | Crash Your Internet Explorer
That is what Internet Explorer users see when they visit this blog from now on.. A few minutes after I was done with all this, Luke sent in ‘Serious security flaw in IE‘. Talk about perfect timing!
You may have read my previous post — Year PHP Code. Here’s an extra thing…
What if you wanna display the next year? You add the following…
1 | <?php echo date ('Y') + 1; ?> |
Output: 2011
When it does turn 2011, it will automatically change to 2012!
You can change the + 1 to any number that suits your needs!