LearnByDoingIT

  • Posted on WordPress.org, December 12, 2011 by Matt Mullenweg. Filed under Releases.

    The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.

    WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the things we think you’ll find are the cat’s pajamas:

    For Users

    Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.

    For Developers

    There is a ton of candy for developers as well. I’d recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.

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    Today’s infographic comes from BlogSearchEngine and it shows the history of Linux, starting in 1971 with Richard Stallman who would go on to set up the Free Software Foundation.  Later would come the operating system called MINIX and in 1989, the Finnish student Linus Torvalds wanted to upgrade MINIX and, finding he was barred from doing so, wrote his own OS called Linux.  The rest, as they say, is history.

     

     

    From: MakeUseOf http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/infographic-history-linux/

  • Hacker Typer was tweeted my direction today.  Located on hackertyper.net but playable on hackertyper.com.

    I found this article from Hack A Day entertaining and worth the read.

    Even better is the idea that there is actually a YouTube video explaining how to use it.

  • I just loaded Fedora 16.  I have this odd Dell Inspiron with a WinTV Express Card, the only card ever built for this slot.  To simplify my life I run Windows 7 for TV and Linux for everything else.

    Where was I?  How to alter the boot sequence in grub2

    # cat /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |grep Windows

    result:

    # menuentry “Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda3)” …

    Set this menuentry as default

    # grub2-set-default “Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda3)”

    You can see the default entry with

    # grub2-editenv list

    And this worked.

    I have since found that I should have generated an updated grub.cfg

    # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

  • I am looking at a number of WordPress plugins to optimize my databases.  I did run across the WordPress method of optimizing a database.

    First backup your database.

    http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php

    Click on the Repair Database button to have WordPress internally executes two SQL queries on each WordPress database table: CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE

    Click on the Repair and Optimize Database button to have WordPress internally executes the two SQL queries above and two additional SQL queries on each WordPress database table: ANALYZE TABLE  and OPTIMIZE TABLE

    I hope this improves my WordPress performance.