Monthly Archives: December 2008

Typograph for WordPress 2.7 Coltrane released

With the release of WordPress 2.7 Coltrane came the introduction of a new template tag called post_class(). Interestingly I have been using a custom template tag by that exact name for a long time in my themes including the free Typograph. That means when users of Typograph upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Coltrane a conflict occurs [...]

WordPress 2.7 up and running

I just updated this site to WordPress 2.7, aka “Coltrane”. Turns out there are some rather interesting template tag changes that have caused some weird problems with my theme. I did a quick cleanup to get things sorted out but I’m pretty sure there’s more work to be done to comply with the new world [...]

On the understanding of the word “blog”

According to Dictionary.com, the word “blog” is defined as “an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page;” This is but one of several definitions but they all contain the same basic elements; words like “personal”, “chronological”, “thoughts” and “diary”. But if you look around the web today or look [...]

Best of 604 Nominations

Design is Philosophy has been nominated in three categories for the Best of 604 Awards. I don’t know who nominated the blog but it is much appreciated to be placed in such esteemed company. This blog has been nominated in three categories: Best Tech Site or Blog Best New Blog (2008) Best Company of Business [...]

WordPress 2.7 to be released Dec. 4th

UPDATE v.2: Turns out I jumped the gun a bit on this one: As Matt states in the comments below, it was the update to WordPress.com that was scheduled for December 4th. The WordPress.org update is still some days away. I’ll wait (im)patiently. UPDATE: Now it seems the WordPress team has pushed the release back [...]