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Nick GernertMarch 9th, 2010

WordPress Happy Hour Kicks off Tonight

Jeremy Harrington (@jharr) on the team here has been anxious to set up an informal gathering of WordPress users in his hometown of Des Moines, IA. The idea was to encourage WordPress community meet-ups that didn’t require the scale and preparation of a WordCamp. Basically, it would be what you did to keep [...]

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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)February 24th, 2010

WordPress 3.0 Will Be Here Soon

The next major WordPress release,  version 3.0, is currently on track for a late March/early April release date.  The WordPress core developers have hit the ground running in 2010 with some big things coming in the 3.0 release.  This release has to be the biggest one yet since I’ve been working on WordPress.  Some of [...]

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Nick GernertJune 16th, 2009

The cnp_studio Team Joins the Voce Famiglia

Last February I posted a note here about the fact that we were formalizing a partnership with the team at Voce Communications. We had worked closely with the team at Voce on a number of great projects and since then the partnership this has only grown. Today, I’m excited to say the partnership [...]

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Nick GernertJune 11th, 2009

WordCamp Orlando Coming December 5, 2009

WordPress has been an amazing platform for our business and has an even more amazing community surrounding it. As a result, I’m both proud and excited to say we’re currently planning Orlando’s first WordCamp for this December 5, 2009.

The lack of BlogOrlando this year left a bit of a void in the Orlando area’s [...]

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Nick GernertJune 8th, 2009

Building a Better WordPress Live Blog with P2

Today is the kick-off of WWDC and specifically the keynote (1p.m. eastern) where we learn about the next device we’ll be buying.
To keep up we’ll be following Gizmodo’s Live Blog of the event for several reasons:

Brian Lam and his team over at Gizmodo are the best damn live-bloggers out there. They’ll post it all [...]

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Nick GernertAugust 17th, 2008

State of the Word: WordCamp 2008

Each year at WordCamp San Francisco Matt Mullenweg gives his “State of the Word” speech. The talk always includes some great stats to show the health of the platform and here are some highlights…
User Suggestions
A number of features added to WordPress in its releases come from suggestions people submit through the WordPress.org site.

2007 – [...]

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Nick GernertAugust 16th, 2008

At WordCamp San Francisco

Sean and I are at the Mission Bay Conference Center this morning for WordCamp 2008. I’ll try to do some posts throughout the day. Sean is picking up where Josh left off as the event photographer, so keep an eye out for his photo stream.

Matt opens things up at WordCamp 2008
Photo credit: Sean [...]

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Nick GernertAugust 14th, 2008

WordCamp San Francisco 2008

WordCamp San Francisco is coming up this Saturday and I’m pretty stoked about it. Since last year’s WordCamp our team has developed projects for some of the biggest brands out there (Sony, eBay, Yahoo), released a few plugins, and developed a site hosted on WordPress VIP. Bottom line is it’s been a good [...]

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Nick GernertJuly 31st, 2008

Controlling the Max Width of Images Uploaded to WordPress Admin

I was asked the following today in regards to a WordPress site:
Is there any way for me to load a photo into an item and stretch it so that it just fills the column but doesn’t overfill?
My first thought was resize your photo before you upload it. Then my second thought was upload it [...]

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Nick GernertJuly 25th, 2008

New Site: RealDanLyons.com

If you don’t know Dan Lyons you may know his alter-ego, Fake Steve Jobs. Dan Lyons is a technology columnist for Newsweek and the creator of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.
Dan decided it was time to walk away from Fake Steve, but still needed an outlet to discuss what’s on his mind. [...]

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