WordPress Bids Farewell to PHP 4 and MySQL 4

After five years of dedicated support, WordPress will be leaving PHP 4 and MySQL 4 behind for the far more current and secure PHP 5 and MySQL 5. WordPress 3.2, planned to launch during the first half of 2011, will be the first release to require PHP 5.2 or higher and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher. The change really comes as no surprise.

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GET OVER IT! 6 Things Web Developers Need to Get Over

One of the downsides of being around developers of varying skill levels, from noob to Open Source legend, is that everyone has an opinion…and they’re all wrong.  Every one of them.  Of course, me being a developer, I’m wrong too.

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Flash, we have grown apart

Many years have passed since you were the hottest and preferred of all the popular kids. Lets make something clear, you have never belong to me, you are proprietary. There will never be control of your actions, loyalty, understanding, and efforts that you put towards this relationship.

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Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array

Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.

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My Thoughts on Premium Plugins

Most of you have heard by now of the departure of Lester Chan from WordPress plugin development. While he will continue to update his plugins as needed, all support will be terminated. As a plugin author myself, I’m not surprised by this news.

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Are You Spamming Comments Inadvertently?

In a blog post titles “ 6 Steps to Kill Your Community “, Matt listed “Allow Spam Through” as the second step and “Don’t Participate in Comments” as the fourth step to killing your community. We treat comments and reader participation very seriously at Weblog Tools Collection. We highlight commenters, try to identify the frequent comments who participate willingly and heuristically remove nofollow tags from the links of commenters who participate in the community.

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Introducing CatsWhoBlog.com

A new blog? Why? When I launched Cats Who Code in June 2008, there was a “Blogging Tips” category, in which I posted some posts about affiliate marketing, blogging advice and making money online tips.

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Interview with Jason M. Putorti – Deux

Interview with the famous designer of Mint.com Jason Putorti. Questions involving changes of the web design industry. I have been able to get a second interview with my favorite designer, Jason Putorti from Mint .

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