Generation Perplexed – Technology Waves and Undertow

How Does One Keep Up? – how many computer languages and concepts have you learned and abandoned in your career? How often do you think you’ll do the same in the future?
Unless you work on Cobol then you’re probably like me and Tom and you’ve gone through several iterations – 6502, 8×86, 68000 Assembly, Pascal, C, C++, PHP, etc etc..
It scared me at one stage but now it’s fascinating.. all this new stuff to learn and find out about! Woo!
This article on technomasochism is more relevant to all you UI watchers.. how much pain will users put up with? Quite a lot in my experiences!

WPMU Static Pages

Ryan Boren has created an excellent “Pages” interface for WP 1.3 but up until now it was useless for WPMU.
This afternoon I built on top of that work by adding support for displaying those pages.
Simply create a page, give it a name and then call your blog, appending “/pages/name” to the end of the URL, where “name” is the title of the page. Here’s a simple test page to test out.

Expect a new release on Friday sometime with this lot included!

WordPress Multiuser 0.1

The very first release of WPMU, WordPress Multi User, is out now and is available for download!
It’s the software the runs this site. It’s a version of WordPress that uses Smarty for templating support and multiple blogs can be runs from the same install!
This version does not have any kind of registration page to create new blogs, but if you pay attention it should be relatively easy to create new blogs.
Play with it, break it, tell me about it!