WordPress and Ajax, an eBook by Ronald Huereca, is currently on sale at $14 (normally $24). Huereca mentioned the sale on Twitter, but didn’t say how long it would last.
WPCandy hasn’t had a chance to review the book yet, but a number of high profile WordPress developers have ranked it highly, according to the quotes on the book’s sales page.
Huereca is well known for his popular Plugin Ajax Edit Comments, which became a paid Plugin last December. You can follow him on Twitter at @ronalfy.
For those who couldn’t attend WordCamp Savannah, recorded sessions, notes, and presentations online are the available options. Presentations from WordCamp Savannah have emerged over the last week.
Presentations are available online from Mark Jaquith, Andrew Nacin, Andrea Rennick, and others. Links after the jump.
Did we miss any presentations? Are there any write-ups on WordCamp Savannah that are worth checking out? Let us know in the comments.
After the awesome success of last week’s book giveaway, we just couldn’t let another week go by without another giveaway. Today we’re giving away a theme, but as usual it’s up to you which one you receive if you win.
The four themes up for grabs today are:
Find out what you can do to win one of these themes, after the jump.
The giveaway is a theme this week, so we have another appropriate comment-as-entry question: Which theme company, that you know about, deserves more attention that it is getting? Presumably we’re interested in theme companies that aren’t the big guys (after all, most know them!). Any hidden gems out there? If not, let your voice ring out with your tried and true favorites.
But, this week you can do even more than comment to entry. Your comment puts your name in once to receive a theme. If you’d like your name in a second time (which, if our calculations are correct, double your odds) just fan/like the WPCandy Facebook page. It’s brand new this week, and we want to get it up and running with the awesome WPCandy community as soon as we can.
So just to recap:
The winner will be drawn randomly from all entrants on Friday afternoon. Good luck!
Nmap.org, home of the Nmap Security Scanner, has released Icons of the Web, a favicon-based visualization of the top one million sites on the web. Clearly visible in the image are both the WordPress.com icon and the Gravatar icon. The size of each icon in the image is proportional to the combined popularity of all top one million sites using that icon. WordPress.com comes in as the 8th most popular icon with 1,123 sites using it for a combined reach of 6.31%. Gravatar comes in as the 9th most popular icon with 650 sites using it for a combined reach of 5.03%.
How many of those icons visible do you use on a daily basis (besides WordPress, of course)?
Peter Westwood, one of the core committers to WordPress, announced his plans to soon switch from his current job to working full time for Automattic as a “Happiness Gardener”.
As Happiness Gardener, he said he will be helping the Happiness Engineers on fixing issues that create support tickets on WordPress.com, to improve the experience bloggers have.
Initially, Westwood said, his duties would be limited to WordPress.com.
“In the long-term I hope to be able to spend some of my work time working on WordPress.org and helping Automattic give back to the community even more than it already does.”
Westwood will join six other Happiness Engineers currently employed by Automattic, focused on improving the WordPress.com blogging experience.
See video of Westwood with the other core commit team after the jump. (See around the 1:00 mark for a question and answer with Westwood.)
You can follow Peter Westwood on Twitter at @westi.
