October 26, 2010
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Via blog.xplana.com: Personally, I think this is a little conservative… though kids and professors on campuses would probably know more about how motivated professors are to switch to digital textbooks. What I do know is that no one likes spending $100 for a textbook and my professors were always...
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Not sure how long WordPress has been doing this, but there is a check for duplicate comments. If the same user/email posts the same exact comment on the same post, the user will get a message like: > Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that! This is great actually,...
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A client contracted us to make some updates to the StudioPress Lifestyle WordPress theme. I’m documenting the changes here so our client can possibly do this work themselves in the future, and it may also help others out there looking to tweak the StudioPress (or really any) premium theme. Changing...
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- Praxis Lodi Viognier 2007 - [](http://www.winelog.net/images/wines/cGhwUnhmNlZNMTI3NjUyOTkwNQ==.jpg) Credit: WineTasting.com - Region: Lodi, California - Winery: Praxis Cellars - Type: White Wine - Variety: Viognier - UPC: 647884992030 - Find Prices at SuperWineSearch - 3 Loggers 3...
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Great overview and background on Gold as a Commodity over at Crossing Wallstreet. The summary for current investors is… My view is that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates earlier than expected. I don’t know exactly when that will be but it will put gold on a dangerous path. For now, my...
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From DealBreaker.com (via CrossingWallStreet): Goldman Sachs just revealed in an SEC filing that its traders made money on every single trading day last quarter, a record for the firm. Net revenue for trading was $25 million or higher in all of the first quarter’s 63 trading days with 35 of those...
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After a couple hours, I’ve tracked down and fixed a bug I was having with some of our WordPress plugins. I believe that there are a few people out there having the same problem. I think there may be another solution online, but it is one of those issues that is difficult to pare down to a good...
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There is a great QA with Herb Greenberg over at TheKirkReport. A few snips from the article: … Kirk: For good or for ill, how do you see financial journalism evolving with the use of blogs and other social media? Herb Greenberg: The good: Leveling the playing field with an enormous amount of...
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I will be speaking on Business Models for Plugin/Theme Distribution. What You Need to Know About the GPL at WordCamp Philly October 30th, 2010 at Temple University in Philadelphia. With lots of sweat and little luck, we’ll have our membership plugin available for some sort of release by then. But...
Read More → October 26, 2010
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[](/images/therealjasoncoleman-com_337a3_newmanwines_sm.jpg)This post is mostly for folks who attended the Jon Newman Wine Dinner at Morton’s in Philadelphia last night. I’ll recap the wines we drank, but also talk a bit about Newman’s talk and the guest author Jeffrey A. Cohen. Here are the wines:...
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