Since we’ve begun expanding our Q&A software to include technologies like PHP, Javascript, the Symfony framework and more, we’ve decided not to run separate installs of WordPress and just use one centralized blog.
On that note, we’ve also launched an umbrella site called CodeWise, which is where the blog will live. RSS subscribers who want to [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Several people wrote to us and asked for the option to subscribe via email for notifications of new questions. We just added in this feature today. Go to your personal control panel and click the new option, which you can see highlighted in this screenshot:
There are now 3 ways to keep track of new questions [...]
We just launched a new site: Symfony Experts. The site is identical to WP Questions, except the focus is different. WP Questions was built using the Symfony framework, so this is a technology that we use every day.
In the next few weeks we be launching similar sites focused on MySql and Javascript.
We’ve had a few questions that needed more than 3 days for the asker and the answerers to figure out the perfect solution. So I’ve added a link that makes it easy to extend a question. If you are the person who has asked a question, and your question is about to expire, feel free [...]
Last month we rolled out threaded answers, which we think help facilitate the conversations between the askers and the answerers. One feature we should have added then, but did not, was automatic emails that let an answerer know when an asker has responded to their answer. This is one feature we just rolled out today. [...]
There was a bug in our code that occasionally miscalculated what an expert’s cash balance was. That is, if they’d earned $100 and withdrawn $75, then their cash balance should have been $25. Sometimes it was $0. During the last month, on 4 separate occasions, I had to log into the database and fix [...]
One of our regular users just wrote to us and complained that the site has been coming up slowly for him. I’m curious if anyone else is having problems?
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