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Archive for March 2010

Customer testimonials

We are always glad to hear when WP Questions works out well for one of our customers. I just stumbled across this post on the forums for the WP eCommerce plugin:
pluggyboy: guys, not sure whether this will help anyone as my configuration was slightly different to that described above (using weight rate with no downloadable [...]

Bug fix: handling international characters

Ünsal Korkmaz posted a question about handling Turkish characters. His Turkish characters ( şŞ İı Ğğ Üü Öö çÇ ) did not show up on our site. This was my fault. When I set up the database I unthinkingly accepted the default character set and collation (latin1_swedish_ci) of the server. A better character set, [...]

Job posting: a 1 month gig in Philadelphia

I was approached with an offer of a 1 month contract in Philadelphia for some WordPress work. I’ve decided to turn it down, so I will post it here. If anyone is interested, contact me and I can put you in touch with the interested parties:
lawrence@krubner.com
They are looking for some rare skill sets. [...]

Are you a plugin or theme developer? Then sign up.

To be good citizens of the open source communities we belong to, we offer to donate 25% of our profits to developers whenever we get questions marked with the custom tags related to their projects (plugins, themes, software). We previously asked developers what they would like to see in a partnership program. We got some [...]

A Hosted Version of the WPQ Software

Over the last 2 months we’ve had a dozen people contact us about licensing the custom software that runs our various question-and-answer websites (WPQuestions, SymfonyExperts and upcoming JavascriptQuestions). We are considering several possible models, but have not yet reached any final decisions.
Right now what we’re considering is a hosted solution, a little bit like [...]