podcast – Strange Devices: Recent Episodes
Jeremy Kelaher
On many online forums people are asking how Apple can justify an item that will last maybe two years that costs as much as a car. The answer is “Anchoring and the contrast principle”. We can not help ourselves – the stupidly expensive watch makes the cheapest one look cheap (which it is not). The […]
Oh boy, what a pain! Setting up Unix tools on a Mac is one of my least favourite things because Apple puts Unix stuff in very odd places, mucking up install assumptions Apple messes with the whole root concept in sometimes counter intuitive ways : sudo effectively means “local admin” – not really root, and […]
While trying to understand some site performance observations with a guru from WordPress VIP Mr Barry Abrahamson I was reminded just how odd routes from Australia to the USA can be sometimes. In my case from a Telstra ISP 4G service in Sydney: wp.com resolved to Australia,Brisbane, via Sydney Kent St exchange about 2km from my location […]
Here is my presentation from WordCamp Sydney on NewsCorp and our plans with WordPress. WordCamp 2014 Sydney PDF (c) 2014 NewsCorp, please ask for permission before reuse.
The average wordpress.com user probably does not notice it, but there is a complex dance underneath every delivery of a page from wordpress.com. Basically for a site x.wordpress.com it goes like this: browser DNS resolves x.wordpress.com to lb.wordpress.com lb.wordpress.com resolves to multiple ips, the browsers computer picks one (this is a slightly complex area, either […]
WordCamp Sydney 2014 was lots of fun, still processing it all to be honest, more thoughts over the coming days. My presentation on our upcoming use of WordPress VIP at NewsCorp seemed to go down well, I will link to it once it is on wordpress.tv (or wherever). So this week I am wrestling with […]
Well it has been a while, sorry about that 🙂 I intend to reboot this blog with my experience of deploying some really big WordPress sites at NewsCorp Australia. I have been invited to speak at wordcamp Sydney about the use of WordPress at NewsCorp Australia. So as not to spoil the presentation, I will […]
I covered Media09 in Sydney for Digital Media Journal. The article is here. Highlights are the stuff about the online Obama Campaign by Ben Self, program director and founding partner of Blue State Digital.
Hear all about Marque’s adventures supporting the first ever mother/daughter climb of Everest by Nikki Bart and her mother, Cheryl Bart. hear about everest here.
Listen to Scott describe his role as a developer advocate at Microsoft and give his thoughts on the new web frameworks from Microsoft and others. listen to Scott hanselman here!