A nifty feature on WordPress 2.7-’hemorrhage’, Plugin Browser/Installer, lets you to select and install plugins from a web browser. There’s no need for the typical download-unzip(-FTP, if you don’t have shell access) workflow that we currently have.
A nifty feature in the nightly build, Plugins Browse/Installer
You can search using plugin names and descriptions, tags, or author. Once you find the plugin you need, installing it is just a matter of clicking on the link. The link provides the description of the plugin, much like what’s available through the WordPress plugin directory. You can even activate the plugin from the same popup overlay.
Speaking of the nightly build, the dashboard sports a new look — sidebars instead of header tabs:
WP 2.7-hemorrhage dashboard sports a new look
MIT Technology Review: 2008 Young Innovators Under 35
The MIT Technology Review presents its
annual list of tech innovators — all under 35 years old — whose “inventions and research (they) find most exciting”.
Among them were
Drupal founder,
Dries Buytaert;
Twitter creator,
Jack Dorsey; and Wii hacker,
Johnny Lee.
Interestingly, majority of the innovators are from Microsoft (including Lee). Digg’s Kevin Rose and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg were in last year’s list.
Originally uploaded by jgotangco. Licensed under CC by-nd.
This is the first one (I think?) in the Philippines, and it would be awesome to meet fellow geeks. Plus, the venue’s just a couple of blocks away from the office.
Now, what should I share?
Update: This is now fixed.
There’s this nagging message from AVG Free that came up just a few hours ago. The Update Manager says that update has failed because “A .bin file was missing.”
My immediate reaction was, “Whoa! Something corrupted my install?” Before investigating further, though, I opted to download the updates manually. And what do you know:
A broken link. The support forum doesn’t reveal much, except that the recent update was corrupted, and a new set of files is on its way.
I wonder how the paid version fared. Would there be an SLA for providing a fresh set of updates? There should be. I used to work for an anti-virus company, and though I didn’t have direct client (users) interaction, I understood from the support point-of-view how critical updates were and the pressure it took to ship fresh ones out the door.
Here’s hoping the AVG guys are up to par. They’ve been doing great so far.
