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My show-stopping session at WordCamp

A week since the inaugural WordCamp UK, and I haven't got round to writing up my session on 'WordPress in large organisations' - specifically, government. Then again, with Chris Garrett and Dave Briggs doing it on my behalf, why should I? My key message was that in many large organisations, there's often open warfare [...] read on »

Puffbox sponsors WordCamp UK

I'm proud to announce that Puffbox is sponsoring the inaugural WordCamp UK, bringing about 100 devotees of WordPress to Birmingham for a weekend of code and conversation. The event takes place on 19-20 July, at the (apparently very classy) Studio conference centre in the centre of Britain's nominally second city. The programme covers everything from a [...] read on »

@WordPress Happy Birthday!

Five years ago today, a new blogging platform was released to the world for the first time. WordPress was the successor to b2/cafelog, itself launched in June 2001 - and indeed, it's amusing to review Cafelog's readme from 2002, which describes many of the very same functions I'm using on a regular basis. WordPress launched [...] read on »