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thinkdave.com gets an upgrade

August 26, 2010 Blog

This morning I launched version 3647 of thinkdave.com, with a new layout, a few new features and hopefully, better content. Here are the important additions: Thesis updated to version 1.8 I’ve upgraded Thesis from 1.7 to the all new version 1.8. I haven’t had a chance to use the Custom Loop API yet but I [...]

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Actually I DO have an opinion on the Thesis vs. WordPress debate

July 14, 2010 Blog
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So today was fun, wasn’t it WordPress & Thesis people? In case you missed it, here’s a brief rundown of what happened: Update: Thesis now sports a shiny new Split license which should appease all you GPL lovers. Can we get some work done now? Bill Erikson sent out a Tweet explaining that WordPress had [...]

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The way forward

March 22, 2010 Blog
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If I was Barack Obama I’d hire someone to write a killer speech explaining how my new full-time freelance status is great for the country, humanity and the universe in general. Of course I’m not Barack Obama and I can’t afford a speech writer, so I’m going to make this post all about ME instead. [...]

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My Thesis theme design toolbox

January 11, 2010 Blog

I’ve had a couple of people (ok, one person) ask me what tools I use to deliver up PSD to Thesis sites and seen as I can’t be bothered to write a tutorial today, I’ll tell you. Hardware. I use a MacBook Pro 15″ laptop for everything except IE testing. For that I use my [...]

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Osmotic – A Preview

January 7, 2010 Blog

First up, Happy New Year everyone! I had a New Year’s Resolution list post planned, but seen as I’ve broken most of them already there doesn’t seem to be much point in publishing it. Instead, take a look at Osmotic, my first Thesis skin for public release. Osmotic is a clean, minimalist theme skin, based [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2009 Blog

Merry Christmas! A big thank you to everyone who visited, everyone who took the time to comment or follow me on Twitter, and the biggest thank you of all to everyone who hired me in 2009. Have a great break. Don’t eat and drink too much and I’ll see you on the Interwebs in 2010. [...]

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My 2 boys

November 5, 2009 Blog

Not exactly WordPress related, but sometimes it pays to stop and reflect on how lucky you are.

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1 lesson you should learn from Internet Marketers

October 19, 2009 Blog

Today’s life lesson from the Interwebs is: The more objectives you have for your blog the less likely it is to achieve any of them. Since this is a blog post and not a Twitter stream, allow me to elaborate. Internet Marketers, or the yellow-highlighter brigade as Sonia Simone calls them, figured out years ago [...]

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Twitter isn’t dying. It’s teething

August 14, 2009 Blog

It seems like a daily occurance. I open my feed reader and BAM! someone has written a blog post prediciting Twitter’s demise. I have 2 thoughts on this: Too many people fail to see Twitter’s potential as the greatest human edited real-time search engine ever. I need to find some new bloggers to follow. My [...]

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CMS your WordPress with these 10 plugins

July 15, 2009 Blog

There are 2 ways to make WordPress into a better CMS. The first way involves a lot more time spent building your theme and ultimately a lot more cost. The second way uses third party plugins to extend your CMS’ functionality. If I could install any 10 plugins to make a CMS more CMS-like, these [...]

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