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You guessed it; it's all about me: Piet Bos, currently living in Valencia, Spain after 10 years in Beijing, China.

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Archive for the Category ‘web stuff’

WordPress for Android

Just downloaded WordPress for Android app from the Android market.
This makes the wpToGo app redundant and “development will be discontinued in favor of the official WordPress app”.
The app is suitable for self hosted sites as well as WordPress.com sites.
If you’re on android and WordPress then you can scan this code to download the app [...]

WordPress via HTC Magic

Since 2 days I’m the proud owner of an android phone: the HTC Magic and as you can imagine, this little post is written on it.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.8

We have just upgraded our WordPress version to the latest 2.8. Don’t forget to make your backups, just in case! Major differences:

WP Greetbox WordPress Plugin

Of course I wanted to see how he had done that and I quickly discovered that it was the WP Greetbox WordPress Plugin at work! Such a cool gadget I have to have too!

Launch WP Theme Kite

I built the theme so far on my localhost, but some things I cannot test there and since I was getting quite frustrated with the previous theme, I decided to do the switch now and tweak on while it’s online.
Therefore it can happen that things look ugly as hell; know that I am working on getting it all right and straightened out, but of course you can always leave a comment to give me a head’s up.

WordPress Theme ‘Kite’ Development

Not only is this good practice, it will also be beneficial to future clients, because in theory it is then possible to take any kind of mock-up and “translate” that into a WordPress Theme.

webdev locally with Nginx

I am finally able to run WordPress locally without having to upload files all the time to see the results of recent tweaks.

name check

This morning I re-tweeted a message from @mashable about a new way to check if your name is still available for a plethora of social networking websites.

what’s up with LinkedIn and WordPress?

A couple of months ago LinkedIn proudly announced the introduction of LinkedIn Applications and when I saw WordPress was listed I immediately decided to import the feed of Piet Bos dot ME into my LinkedIn profile.

Inge visiting us in Valencia

Right before I started writing this post I had a slice of bread with yummie Marmite and now I am drinking a cup of tea with a delicious stroopwafel.