Monthly Archives: August 2008

Excellent membership management plugin

One of our clients wants to build a membership-based site, with several different membership levels and options. And of course, both Joomla and WordPress options for fine control of who-sees-what are relatively limited. Both systems have very basic authentication protocols, … Continue reading

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Updating multiple (30+) WordPress installs is no fun

Subversion, you are my new best friend.  

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Bye-bye Twitter

Twitter recently stopped sending tweets out via SMS to Africa. To be fair, they stopped service in a lot of other parts of the world too, but it’s disenchanting to discover that we West Africans are not on their list … Continue reading

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Welcome back, Carpenter.

There are a million challenges to web development here in West Africa, not the least of which are poor and/ or expensive internet connections, a general ignorance of what the web can do (this is actually true all over the … Continue reading

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