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WordPress.com, the blogging service from the folks who make WordPress has finally opened it’s doors to the public. This is great news for the blogosphere, we now have an alternative to Xanga, MySpace and TypePad. What’s really unique about WordPress is that it stills maintains the essence of the open source world.

The first Beta version of WordPress 2.0 (previously known as 1.6) is out. I just downloaded it and I’m testing it locally to see what’s new, broken etc since it’s still in beta. The interface is much leaner now and it’s sporting a new RichText editor with a global image uploader and browser that requires [...]

Amy Ahoy‘s crash course in Web 2.0 Basics Link: Web 2.0 Presentation Slides

I just installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin. This will allow you to be notified by email on any new comments added to a post you are interested in. To subscribe, just click the check-mark when leaving a comment on a post. Link

The CSS Shorthand Guide by Dustin Diaz. A nice addition to any web developer’s arsenal.

To my fellow web developers, last year Mark Wyner wrote a great article on A List Apart about how to work around designing html emails using CSS. The tutorial covers many issues that would have taken me an eternity to figure out, hats off to Mark for his determination. I was revisiting this article today [...]

I’m finally running Shaun Inman’s Mint on the site I just finished, erwinmcmanus.com. Mint is one of the coolest little web apps I’ve come across. It’s all Ajax driven and it even has a Dashboard Widget that gives you the last month numbers. The design and functionality are both beautiful and elegant. It proves my [...]