Category: WordPress
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First use of the word “wordpress”
Serendipity struck today. Sunday afternoon spent lounging on the sofa reading books. D started chuckling and motioned for me to come over to look inside his copy of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap them, cut them up allways; leave them to terracook in the muttheringpot: and…
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Speaking About the GPL at WordCamp Miami
I’m speaking at WordCamp Miami on Saturday 6th April. I had originally planned to talk about contributing to WordPress, but I’ve been doing a load of research on the GPL recently so figured it would be a cool thing to speak on. I had a look through previous WordCamp presentations (those on WordPress.tv anyway) and…
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cease and desist
An interesting piece of WordPress history for those of you who like trivia. As I’ve been archiving WordPress history, I came across an interesting series of posts on Mike Little’s blog. In April 2003 (about a month before the launch of WordPress 0.7), Mike was issued with a cease and desist notice from a company…