George Stephanis

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  • Day One: Couch to 5k

    I’m finally doing it.  I’ve meant to for a while. This morning I started week 1 day 1 of the Couch to 5k plan.  I’ve been doing weights regularly for nearly two years now, but have been a bit lax on the aerobic side of looking after myself. So on my way into the coworking…

  • Reign Soundtrack

    So, it’s no great secret that my taste in TV shows isn’t always the classiest. I pick fun shows that happen to catch my interest, often just to be mocked for it by my wife. One of the shows I picked up this season is the CW’s Reign. It’s very akin to The Tudors and…

  • Developing with Jetpack – WordCamp Boston

    Here’s my slides from WordCamp Boston Developing with Jetpack – WCBoston

  • Come Fly With Me – Jetpack

    Here’s the slides from my talk at WordCamp Baltimore! WCBaltimore

  • P.S. Pressgram Violated Kickstarter’s Own Rules

    So, last night I was able to finally realize what it was about Pressgram that bothered me so much. My fear with @Pressgram is that @saddington is requiring accounts so he has users data and content to sell as an exit strategy. #hopeimwrong — george stephanis toots on mastodon (@daljo628) September 7, 2013 Just to…

  • Pressgram Terms of Service

    NOTE: This is the second of two posts looking at problems I see with Pressgram. The first, looking at security concerns, can be read here. First, a bit of history.  No, it is too long, let me sum up: Pressgram was first spawned as a Kickstarter as a reaction to the Instagram Licensing debacle where…

  • Pressgram Security Concerns

    NOTE: This is the first of two posts looking at problems I see with Pressgram. The second, addressing the Terms of Service can be read here. Hi, folks. Gather round, and let’s have a little chat about password security and transparency. So Pressgram just released, after a rather successful Kickstarter campaign, and lots of excitement…

  • Serial TV Dramas that are Worth the Watch

    Babylon 5 Summary: It is the dawn of the third age of mankind, the middle of the twenty-third century. Man is far from alone in the universe. A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization — or more to the point, they made contact with us. Before the arrival of the…

  • Events Custom Post Type Proposal for Multisite

    This is intended for the Make.WordPress.org series of blogs.  There are a number of needs, from weekly chat schedules for some Make blogs, to WordCamps for others.  Each site needs to be able to display their own events, and the main Make site would need to be able to display an aggregate of all (or…

  • Get Remote Part — a handy theme function

    Handy little code snippet if your theme or plugin ever needs to regularly check a remote url’s contents, but you want to cache it for a bit: function get_remote_part( $url, $minutes_to_save = 60 ) { $transient_name = ‘get_remote_part_’ . substr( md5( $url ), 16 ); if ( false === ( $value = get_transient( $transient_name )…