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oDesk: Developers for Developers

Finally a place for good quality outsourcing and coders.

In 5 days I received about 25 applications. Of these 25 applicants, 20 of them had a better combination of skill set and experience than any resume that I have had float across my desk in the last year....My providers are highly skilled, great communicators, detail oriented, affordable, and they WANT TO WORK! When is the last time you went to the university down the street and picked up a developer with those credentials?

I've checked the resumés myself and Adam's right.

Actually oDesk is more than a place for outsourcing, but a whole system for hiring and managing coders. It's rather techcentric. It's not the sort of thing that a client would enjoy managing (one does need to know how to spec a project in technical terms and how to speak to a developer). It's something for someone like me with one foot in the commercial realm and the other on the technical side. But to be honest I would probably have John do most of the developer management (depending on the project).

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Editing WordPress Pages with Ecto

As most of you know by now we are big users of Ecto for editing our weblogs, across all platforms including WordPress and Typepad. Lack of Ecto support for WordPress is one of the main reasons I stuck with Typepad so long. Ecto just makes things so much faster and more convenient.

One very large irritation when using Ecto with WordPress is the inability to get a hold of the Pages section via XML-RPC. Developer Adriaan Tijsseling is tired of questions about why doesn’t this work, pointing out quite curtly in his Ecto 3 progress notes that it’s not in his power to fix:

Pages isn’t in the API for editing blogs, so if you want to edit pages, you have to ask WP to allow editing pages via the API. It’s nothing any blog client can implement.

There are two solutions out there. One is to modify the core WordPress files, specifically wp-includes/functions-post.php.

John prefers that we not modify any core files for the sake of future compatibility (we got burned on this on what is now a very difficult upgrade on another CMS platform).

Andrew Grant has come up with a WordPress plugin to allow all sorts of games with keywords and to improve compatibility with Windows Live Writer (whatever WLW is).

His plugin has some side benefits:

Static WordPress pages (e.g. ‘About’) can be edited via Ecto / Windows Live Writer.

I suspect we’ll go this route. Unfortunately I want to edit my pages now (and need Ecto to do so efficiently).

We’ll get there.

Forums for WordPress sites: bbPress

Time for some forums for client sites.Second I wanted to introduce an old friend you are all probably familiar with from our support forums, bbPress…. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light.

Immediate help with images

If you need to get some images up on your website in a hurry, here’s a bit of code which is extremely straightforward: Lussumo Filebrowser.

The filebrowser is a lightweight PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images and view them in a web browser. That’s it. Short and sweet.

While it’s too lightweight for what we are doing, some of this might show up in our future foliovision applications.

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Weblog Posting in Firefox

My acquaintance Nick Wilson of threadwatch.org fame (founding editor)

has created an interesting Firefox plugin for posting to one’s weblog directly from within the browser.

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Interesting PhotoPlugins For WordPress

We are working hard on some gallery stuff of our own, but there are a couple of simple and powerful plugins over at InternetVibes.net for galleries in WordPress.

Keep reading Interesting PhotoPlugins For WordPress

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