Web Developer » community http://wdtoolkit.com TOOLKIT Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Announcing Lanyrd http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/31/announcing-lanyrd/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/31/announcing-lanyrd/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:42:08 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/31/announcing-lanyrd/ No, it isn’t a Happy Cog project (it’s by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn’t love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we’d created it ourselves. Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell you which conferences, workshops and such your friends are attending or speaking at. You can add and track events, and [.. [...]
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/31/announcing-lanyrd/feed/ 0 A Brief History of Digg http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/25/a-brief-history-of-digg/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/25/a-brief-history-of-digg/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:24:15 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/25/a-brief-history-of-digg/ Just a few months shy of its sixth birthday, social news site Digg has launched its highly anticipated overhaul/redesign.What started as an experiment in the fall of 2004 is now a major online presence with an estimated…
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/25/a-brief-history-of-digg/feed/ 0 Percona talks at OpenSQL Camp this weekend http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/19/percona-talks-at-opensql-camp-this-weekend/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/19/percona-talks-at-opensql-camp-this-weekend/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:24:09 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/19/percona-talks-at-opensql-camp-this-weekend/ Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on:

Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables
Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what
XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids
Xtrabackup for MySQL

If you would like to stop by and say hello, we are Aleksandr, Istvan, Morgan and Aurimas (pictures here). [...]

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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/19/percona-talks-at-opensql-camp-this-weekend/feed/ 0 Twitter Wants You to Share Your Twitter Stories http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/17/twitter-wants-you-to-share-your-twitter-stories/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/17/twitter-wants-you-to-share-your-twitter-stories/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:18:17 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/17/twitter-wants-you-to-share-your-twitter-stories/ Twitter has launched a new section of its website called Twitter Tales, a collection of “examples of great Twitter use [that] will also likely inspire others to use the service in innovative and interesting ways.”On the official…
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/17/twitter-wants-you-to-share-your-twitter-stories/feed/ 0 HOW TO: Avoid a Social Media Disaster http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/09/how-to-avoid-a-social-media-disaster/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/09/how-to-avoid-a-social-media-disaster/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:24:11 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/09/how-to-avoid-a-social-media-disaster/ Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter.If there’s one thing that keeps social media marketers up at night, it’s the ever-present…
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/09/how-to-avoid-a-social-media-disaster/feed/ 0 The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/05/the-big-web-show-episode-15-social-media-social-capital/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/05/the-big-web-show-episode-15-social-media-social-capital/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:12:05 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/05/the-big-web-show-episode-15-social-media-social-capital/ Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company’s “women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology” is our guest on today’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted as always by Dan Benjamin, and taped in front of a live [. [...]
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/05/the-big-web-show-episode-15-social-media-social-capital/feed/ 0 Building The Community: WordPress 3.org http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/04/building-the-community-wordpress-3-org/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/04/building-the-community-wordpress-3-org/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:06:06 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/04/building-the-community-wordpress-3-org/ With the recent release of WordPress 3.0 we’re entering a very exciting time.
For the first time in the history of the platform, nobody is working on the next version.
All development outside of essential bug fixing has been stopped… and 3.1 won’t even start development until the beginning of September.
The reason? Well, the core contributors aren’t [. [...]
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/08/04/building-the-community-wordpress-3-org/feed/ 0 HOW TO: Manage a Sustainable Online Community http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/30/how-to-manage-a-sustainable-online-community/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/30/how-to-manage-a-sustainable-online-community/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:48:06 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/30/how-to-manage-a-sustainable-online-community/ Rob Howard is the CTO/founder of enterprise collaboration software company Telligent.A 2008 Gartner study on social software noted that “about 70 percent of the community typically fails to coalesce.” While the measurement and the statistics…. [...]
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/30/how-to-manage-a-sustainable-online-community/feed/ 0 Episode 13: Voices That Matter http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/19/episode-13-voices-that-matter/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/19/episode-13-voices-that-matter/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:54:20 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/19/episode-13-voices-that-matter/ Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles. All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but this week’s guest is especially special. Michael J. Nolan (@mikaln) is the acquisitions editor who “discovered” me, and who has [. [...]
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]]> http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/07/19/episode-13-voices-that-matter/feed/ 0 Forrst: Microblogging for Designers and Developers http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/06/19/forrst-microblogging-for-designers-and-developers/ http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/06/19/forrst-microblogging-for-designers-and-developers/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:00:42 +0000 admin http://wdtoolkit.com/2010/06/19/forrst-microblogging-for-designers-and-developers/ Sometimes, you have a little something to share, but because your “little something” is a snippet of code or a slice of design, the traditional tools for sharing don’t quite fit…
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