I'm going to WordCamp
Patrick Havens on October 26th, 2007

Turns out what happens in Hawaii only stays there long enough to launch itself toward our inbox. Take for example, what struck some attendees as a budding romance between TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, the former Fox executive Michael Arrington hired to run his blog’s business end, and Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress. Now, TechCrunch [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 24th, 2007

Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is now ready for the world. This release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. Here is a brief run-down on some of the features.

Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. We’ve [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 6th, 2007

I’ve been a little slow, and was so busy enjoying my weekend, I hadn’t noticed that the good people at Automattic had released a security update for WordPress.  The changes are relatively minor and all security updates.  So you can upgrade fairly painlessly and without any worries, I just upgraded five blogs fairly quickly.  SO [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 24th, 2007

Well I found out that KRON News made mention of WordCamp last weekend just in time to be added into my Gigantic Wrap-Up Post.  So But I’ll post it here also, and point you to the post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9q92_hOro

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Patrick Havens on July 23rd, 2007

What can bring down a bad blogger? Try a good book.
I had a wonderful time at WordCamp and I was kept busy posting about it there (and yes I’ll be doing a follow up). But by Sunday eveing I was drained. I had received the new Harry Potter book that has been [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 20th, 2007

As you may of noticed by the graphic in the corner, I’m going to Automattic’s WordPress Conference - WordCamp.  A Two Day Event (ok sorta three with the meet and greet the day before), its a chance to go over using and about WordPress as both a user and a developer.  I’ve been prepping, [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 21st, 2007

WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. 2.2.1 is a bug fix release for the 2.2 series. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely polished 2.2.1 release. [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 19th, 2007

Photo Matt just announced:
The WordCamp site now has its schedule up and the registration is open.
I’ve registered.  Will you?

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Patrick Havens on June 8th, 2007

We decided to acknowledge WordPress because the authors have done good work and we rely on the software. We hope our acknowledgment helps foster the WordPress community.
***edit***
Thanks,
Will Mayall
[Truemors]
I had read earlier Guy Kawasaki had written a post about a new start up he had created in a short period of time (BTW read the post… [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 7th, 2007

Matt Mullenweg may have wanted WordCamps organized all over the world, but Aaron and I would settle for the one actually being organized. A little more than a month away, and there’s R.S.V.P. list or agenda. As much as we appreciate Automattic organizing the conference, we’re voicing the concerns of a lot of people when [...]

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