Rodent Regatta

Just in time to see a new batch of website owners catch the web standards wave, A List Apart updates to version 4.0. In a further intersection of excellent things, TextDrive now hosts A List Apart.

Behind the scenes of this entry is Textpattern 4.0.

Many hours of improvements, updates and enhancements to this site are imminent. Stay tuned, if you please.

This long article is going to call into question the issue of weblogs and scalability. It’s based on personal experience and flawed information flows. Yet, it’s going to raise the specter that shared hosting, years of writing and tools that backfire combine to make for a very fragile blogosphere.

Read on...

Keeping bookmarks, RSS feeds and blogrolls synchronized with one another and categorized correctly is a challenge. Wishing for a single (web-based) application for managing all three of these, I learned today about a solution that has genuine merit.

If you have a similar interest or need, you might enjoy this entry, which offers enough detail to whet the appetite.

Lest ye think I would lead thee astray, I want to assure you that my guesstimate of last Friday as a target day for the release of Textpattern 1.0 was a somewhat informed guess. I had read what I thought was a conservative estimate based upon a recently missed target or two.

To my knowledge, said software still hasn’t shipped. I’m sure it has become a much bigger job to finish the caligraphy in all the user manuals, duplicate all those CD’s, print the boxes and, we all know that shrink-wrapping takes time.

Be patient. It will be worth the wait!