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@Ipstenu I don’t normally listen…

@Ipstenu I don't normally listen to those, but I'll make an exception 🙂

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@browserstack I have no problems…

@browserstack I have no problems at all. BrowserStack runs ninja fast for me. Very impressed with the service.

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@scottbasgaard Ahh, I see. I’ve…

@scottbasgaard Ahh, I see. I've used it on my phone before with no problems so figured it would be okay down where you are.

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@scottbasgaard What do you need…

@scottbasgaard What do you need VMware for?

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

New WordPress plugin for adding…

New WordPress plugin for adding unique custom headers … https://geek.hellyer.kiwi/products/unique-headers/

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@hanlasse It’s a Chrome application,…

@hanlasse It's a Chrome application, so technically it does, yeah. But you wouldn't know it from looking at it.

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@hanlasse You are missing something…

@hanlasse You are missing something here. CMD+Tab would still work since the application runs in it's own window.

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@hanlasse How does a standalone…

@hanlasse How does a standalone app behave any different to a Chrome app?

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@hanlasse Of course, I also…

@hanlasse Of course, I also miss things a lot coz it's not very good at remind me 😉

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@hanlasse I just use Scratchpad…

@hanlasse I just use Scratchpad in Chrome. Works great, and I can ignore when I need to. And it can be used for SOOO many other things.

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@dinicmilan Help is always appreciated.…

@dinicmilan Help is always appreciated. It's hard to get proper input on things it seems.

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@dinicmilan Feel free to find…

@dinicmilan Feel free to find more flaws. It's useful having stuff like this pointed out 🙂 Thanks for your help.

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@dinicmilan That’s odd. I knew…

@dinicmilan That's odd. I knew that too. Chalk that up as an error from copy and pasting readme files 😉

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @Bendicksongreen: I said to…

RT @Bendicksongreen: I said to my partner, "Please get me a newspaper." "Don't be silly," he replied, "you can borrow my iPad."That spid …

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@scottbasgaard I see there’s another…

@scottbasgaard I see there's another one coming up on August 14th. Might be an appropriate time for me to go on holiday to Bergen perhaps.

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @kwsanders: My son just…

RT @kwsanders: My son just told me that he found Chuck Norris' email address. It is gmail@chucknorris.com

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@markjaquith lolz. Awesome sign.

@markjaquith lolz. Awesome sign.

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @markjaquith: I picked a…

RT @markjaquith: I picked a bad day to sleep in. Made my sign for #wcsf. http://twitter.com/markjaquith/status/216596401713459200/photo/1

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Tagged wcsf | Leave a comment

@scottbasgaard Have you been going…

@scottbasgaard Have you been going to any Bergen meetups? I'd like to head over some time to visit.

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@dinicmilan Thank you. You are…

@dinicmilan Thank you. You are now credited on the plugin page … http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-errors/other_notes/

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@dinicmilan Thanks. I actually thought…

@dinicmilan Thanks. I actually thought of that on the way home and was about to go check if I'd added that or not. Clearly I haven't!

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel @EricMann The problem is…

@mikeschinkel @EricMann The problem is rather large though and I think it requires a dev. willing to do the hard yards to implement it.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel In SMF, you just…

@mikeschinkel In SMF, you just add ?theme=1 to the admin panel URL to use the default theme.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel You can always have…

@mikeschinkel You can always have a default admin theme that you can force through if you need to.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@EricMann I would be more…

@EricMann I would be more vocal in stating it if I had the foggiest idea how to do it myself (I don't) 😉

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel Using the WordPress theming…

@mikeschinkel Using the WordPress theming system for the admin panel would be a good start IMO.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @rhyswynne: Always amuses me…

RT @rhyswynne: Always amuses me that Germany has a player that I pronounce goatse.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel I’d put the entire…

@mikeschinkel I'd put the entire admin panel setup in that basket, not just the menus.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@EricMann I’ve seen it three…

@EricMann I've seen it three times now I think. All times were due to incorrect assumptions on the presence of the ?> tag at file end.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@EricMann Yup. It wasn’t a…

@EricMann Yup. It wasn't a WordPress attack though, just a generic PHP attack that didn't work properly since the JS wasn't executing.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel I’ve previously hacked around…

@mikeschinkel I've previously hacked around the issue by redirecting based on query vars. Not exactly an elegant solution thought.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel That’s a very confusing…

@mikeschinkel That's a very confusing way to explain it, but I think I follow now. I've experienced similar problems previously.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel Can you point me…

@mikeschinkel Can you point me in the direct of what it does other than delete some menu items and add some custom post-types?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel I find that a…

@mikeschinkel I find that a little hard to GROK. Gonna install the plugin to see what it actually does.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@mikeschinkel What are you actually…

@mikeschinkel What are you actually wanting to do to the admin menu system in WordPress?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@brianlayman Glad to hear it’s…

@brianlayman Glad to hear it's useful to you 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

Please keep the compliments flowing…

Please keep the compliments flowing @Ipstenu. It's not often my ego gets stroked like this 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @Ipstenu: Some days I…

RT @Ipstenu: Some days I see a plugin and wonder 'WTH?' other days I go 'Oh! Me wants!' … now available in repository http://bit.ly/KqpUCG

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries http://t.co/2uI8Bllm

@DeFries http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-errors/

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries @ipstenu It’s called “Comment…

@DeFries @ipstenu It's called "Comment Errors". I'll be uploading it to the repository in about 20 minutes.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@Ipstenu Thank you :)

@Ipstenu Thank you 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@Ipstenu All I found were…

@Ipstenu All I found were people bitching about the lack of a solution and/or posting core hacks to fix it.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@Ipstenu I was actually wondering…

@Ipstenu I was actually wondering if there was already such a plugin out there. But my Google'ing showed nought.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @Ipstenu: Some days I…

RT @Ipstenu: Some days I see a plugin and wonder 'WTH?' other days I go 'Oh! Me wants!' Today @ryanhellyer made a cool one 😀

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@Ipstenu Ahh, that one :)…

@Ipstenu Ahh, that one 🙂 You can thank the wonderful Norwegian government for that. They requested it this afternoon.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@Ipstenu To be honest, I…

@Ipstenu To be honest, I have no idea which plugin you are referring to … off to check.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@carlhancock I despise low res.…

@carlhancock I despise low res. screens but love lightweight computers. The combination currently doesn't work well together unfortunately.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@carlhancock I’ve been think that…

@carlhancock I've been think that if they release a retina version of it then I might switch.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@nakrissimo Later that night? Or…

@nakrissimo Later that night? Or later as in another week? Either way, I'm keen to hear about it 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@nakrissimo I’d also need to…

@nakrissimo I'd also need to find something to talk about. I mostly want to go uber super nerd overload, but that puts people to sleep 🙁

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@nakrissimo I could get up…

@nakrissimo I could get up and present something myself, but people are going to very rapidly get sick of me if I keep doing that!

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@nakrissimo Not yet. Any chance…

@nakrissimo Not yet. Any chance you are keen to present something? A "non-Metronet" person would be nice for once 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@carlhancock Do you use the…

@carlhancock Do you use the 11.6" Air as your primary machine?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@nakrissimo Damn, I was hoping…

@nakrissimo Damn, I was hoping you were going to bring an S3 for me to try out on Tuesday 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Same!

@DeFries Same!

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Yep, I’ll be at…

@DeFries Yep, I'll be at Edinburgh. I'm presenting.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@nakrissimo Yer changing to iPhone?

@nakrissimo Yer changing to iPhone?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries It seems they are…

@DeFries It seems they are indeed a Norwegian website … http://blog.gitorious.org/2011/02/03/an-update-on-the-sony-dmca-issue/

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Yeah, but you need…

@DeFries Yeah, but you need to have 20 meetings about it, involving 10 people each time, then pay all those people. Plus paper work 😉

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Government organisations are slow…

@DeFries Government organisations are slow moving beasts. Best to take the easiest approach to doing things 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries That would probably cost…

@DeFries That would probably cost a fortune to implement so is not viable for us.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Gitorious crashes too much…

@DeFries Gitorious crashes too much and it's really slow.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries It has some connection…

@DeFries It has some connection to Norway somewhere along the line apparently. I'm not sure of the details.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries At Metronet we use…

@DeFries At Metronet we use Beanstalk and for my personal stuff I use GitHub.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries I’m working for the…

@DeFries I'm working for the Norwegian government who don't like using things owned by or hosted outside of Norway.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@milo317 But you could be…

@milo317 But you could be in sunny Scotland instead? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/342293056… … oh, wait … I think you chose the better option 😉

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@JohnONolan Code wise, or styling…

@JohnONolan Code wise, or styling wise?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@JohnONolan What do you prefer…

@JohnONolan What do you prefer about it?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@milo317 I’m guessing you meant…

@milo317 I'm guessing you meant to say "week"? In which case have fun wherever it is that you are exploring 🙂

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@milo317 Will we see you…

@milo317 Will we see you guys at WordCamp Edinburgh?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries FYI, that plugin is…

@DeFries FYI, that plugin is intended for multi-site use. So site owners can adjust their statistics setup as they see fit.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Fishing that plugin out…

@DeFries Fishing that plugin out was useful for me. Turns out I had a bug which prevented it working correctly on https.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries In case it’s of…

@DeFries In case it's of any use to you, here's our (kinda simple) custom plugin for it … https://gitorious.org/dss-plugins/dss-statistics

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries We have around 20…

@DeFries We have around 20 sites running on it at the moment, with history going back at least a year. No performance issues I'm aware of.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries It seems kinda crappy…

@DeFries It seems kinda crappy in my experience, but I don't have much to compare it with other than hosted platforms.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries I’m attempting to use…

@DeFries I'm attempting to use piwik right now actually. I had to write a plugin for it last week. What would you like to know?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@toddhiestand Either well configured VPS,…

@toddhiestand Either well configured VPS, WP Engine or Pagely seem to be the way to go. WP Engine and Pagely are easier. VPS is cheaper.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@DeFries Is there any particular…

@DeFries Is there any particular types of content you are looking to have submitted to http://wprealm.com/?

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

Exciting new blog about WordPress…

Exciting new blog about WordPress by @DeFries and co. http://wprealm.com/blog/how-wp-realm-began/

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick It probably runs much…

@bronsonquick It probably runs much more slowly in Australia too due to the ping time and less bandwidth.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick @JohnONolan I never care…

@bronsonquick @JohnONolan I never care about the speed since I'm just checking for CSS bugs usually.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@JohnONolan I never noticed it…

@JohnONolan I never noticed it was so expensive until you mentioned it. My employers pay for it thankfully.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@Mamaduka That’s what I would…

@Mamaduka That's what I would like to do. Figuring out how is where I am stuck.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@JohnONolan Perhaps you could share…

@JohnONolan Perhaps you could share an account with others.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

Sounds like you need http://t.co/n5YizH4r…

Sounds like you need http://www.browserstack.com/ @JohnONolan. Native IE6, 7, 8 and 9 without ever having to run your own Windows box 🙂

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick I’m not a coffee…

@bronsonquick I'm not a coffee drinker. You are tempting me towards a Coke Zero though.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@gcaat Same as any other…

@gcaat Same as any other text messages.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

Head bang #2 for the…

Head bang #2 for the day … just realised WP_PLUGIN_URL doesn't automatically use https, need to use plugins_url() instead!

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick I’d rather break the…

@bronsonquick I'd rather break the theme so that people know they messed up.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick I’m still having issues…

@bronsonquick I'm still having issues getting my image to save. All I have right now is the uploader, but no ability to stash it's content.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @wpmu_dennis: Reading: Set WordPress…

RT @wpmu_dennis: Reading: Set WordPress Featured Image Automatically – http://WPengineer.com: http://bit.ly/NX2bB6

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

self HEAD SMACK! If at…

self HEAD SMACK! If at first your code doesn't work, wait 5 seconds for the file to upload.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick OMG, lol! It WAS…

@bronsonquick OMG, lol! It WAS working, I was just uploading such a large file that it took so long that I assumed it was failing!

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick Or maybe I’m missing…

@bronsonquick Or maybe I'm missing something obvious which is staring me in the face .. more research necessary.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick Yes, and in it…

@bronsonquick Yes, and in it he says that he will need to write another tutorial for adding images etc. as they're more complicated.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick That’s also easy. Images…

@bronsonquick That's also easy. Images are not so simple. Either that or I'm doing something wrong.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@bronsonquick They seem to have…

@bronsonquick They seem to have used the header and background images. That's easy. I need to create a new custom one unfortunately.

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

Has anyone out there managed…

Has anyone out there managed to make use of the image uploader/selector in the new WordPress customizer?

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

@dgwyer Lookin’ slick.

@dgwyer Lookin' slick.

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment

RT @dgwyer: Press Coders site…

RT @dgwyer: Press Coders site redesign is NOW live!! Check it out and let us know what you think: http://www.presscoders.com

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Ryan Hellyer | Leave a comment
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