Today, just in time for WordCamp San Francisco 2008, Shiny New Toy is taking the wraps off a new website we’ve been working on: WP Screencasts. WP Screencasts is a compilation of instructional training videos for managing web content with the WordPress platform. If you are a current client of ours and we’ve built a [...]
Right on the heels of WordCamp is the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. Proceeds from this event – which looks like it will be very fun – will benefit 826 Valencia. To play a little six degrees of WordPress separation… The WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt benefits 826 Valencia 826 Valencia was founded by Dave Eggers Dave [...]
Akismet is an obvious choice for any list of WordPress plugins we always use. But there’s plenty of other plugins that we find ourselves installing every single time we build a site with WordPress. If Matt and the Automattic crew ever decide to make these part of the core WP software, Holly and I certainly [...]
One of the first projects Holly and I undertook under the Shiny New Toy name, MeltingSpot, is now live. MeltingSpot, a free email newsletter and website, is an Internet version of the American “melting pot” society – a place where Americans and immigrants come together to close the culture gap. Read MeltingSpot for advice on [...]
About a week ago the WordPress app for the iPhone was announced with an awesome screencast. And now that the app has been released and seeing that JJ and I are HUGE fans of WordPress, its only fitting that I do a quick review (especially since between the two of us, I’m the iPhone owner). [...]
It’s getting easier and easier to start a company. The tools you can use to operate, manage, and communicate with the folks you work with are becoming more robust and dirt cheap to adopt. Here’s a few of the services and tools we used to bootstrap Shiny New Toy and get things off the ground. [...]
It was five years ago today that Matt Mullenweg posted a link to download version 0.7 of WordPress, making WordPress publicly available for the very first time. Like the proud family it is, the WP gang is celebrating with a party in San Francisco tonight. A party I’d love to be at but won’t be [...]
Part 1 in a series about breaking up with Basecamp and dating our own creation, a blend of WordPress MU and Prologue. Maybe we made the perfect lighweight solution. Or perphaps we created Frankenstein.