Specialization is for Insects.
There are many things that can be taken away from a person – possessions, freedom, health, happiness, even dignity. But there are some things no one can take from you, like knowledge, courage, friendship, and love.
Remember that when you find you’re focusing attention on things that are fleeting, and try investing in things that can’t be devalued.
Have a great day!
WordPress, you know it… you love it. But a big part of what makes WordPress so awesome is it’s ecosystem of passionate users, theme and plugin developers. In the case of theme and plugin developers, they’re essential to making it easy on the rest of us to get WordPress to do the things we want it to with relatively little effort and cost.
While it’s impressive how many add-on’s are available for the WordPress platform for free, the reality is that everything comes at a price. Usually it’s the developers time, but it can also come at a price to the community. When a theme or plugin we rely on crosses a certain threshold of complexity and need for support, it can become difficult or even impossible for the developer to keep up with; and when they can’t we all loose.
Pods CMS – WordPress Plugin
I make a considerable portion of my living from WordPress work and know its themes, frameworks and plugins well. One of the most amazing plugins built for WordPress is Pods CMS built by Scott Clark. Pods serves to extend WordPress’ CMS functionality and take it to the next level. So as WordPress usage grows and we continue to push it into new places, the need for the functionality that Pods provides becomes ever more important.
Pods is not a lightweight plugin and is probably best served in the hands of an experienced developer to get it to do what you want, but if you’ve ever heard someone say “WordPress” can’t do that, think again, it can, and there is a good chance Pods can help it get there.
One of the more interesting examples of Pods capabilities is the scheduling system Scott and Matthew built for OpenCamp 2010. It’s all Pods! But Pods doesn’t stop there, when you look at the Pods showcase and get a sense of the companies that use it you’ll want to explore the ways it can work for you.
Pods 2.0Â
Because of it’s complexity, the development effort has grown to a point where it needs a little help. Pods 2.0 is about to come out with a major overhaul of the UI (and much more) and we want to help Scott push it over the finish line.
In order to wrap up 2.0 over the next couple of weeks, Scott has made Pods a Kickstarter project to raise funds so he can focus exclusively on finishing it up.
If I had my way we would raise so much money that Scott would never have to do anything again but keep developing and supporting this amazing plugin. If you’ve not used Pods, be sure to check it out at PodsCMS.org. If you have benefitted from Pods then I would encourage you to step up and make a donation to push 2.0 over the finish line.
If you have a project that’s used Pods leave us a comment and link below, we would love to see and hear what you’ve done with it.
Do you use Facebook? Well, head on over and check your settings and you can now use Facebook in Pirate mode! THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!
Go to ACCOUNT > ACCOUNT SETTINGS > LANGUAGE and then choose English (Pirate), and voila! You’re now in pirate mode matey! :-)
After you make the change, this is what things start to look like!
Enjoy Mateys!
Saving Man Under Burning Car
On Monday in Logan, Utah a motorcycle accident left one man laying underneath a car, with the motorcycle and front end of the car in flames. Witnesses to the accident quickly rushed forward to try to help, but clearly no one could save the man by themselves.
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Sony Center Roof
The following is a collection of HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photos that I took. If you’d like to know how this works, you should go read my friend Trey’s HDR tutorial. That will explain everything.
Enjoy!!!
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Google has moved leaps and bounds during the past 15 years to become the largest online conglomerate in existence. Not only does it have a wide array of features that grows every day as it expands to new technological concepts but it also owns popular websites like YouTube. It has even recently created Google+, its latest attempt at a social networking site to rival Facebook and Twitter.
But Google+ was a long time coming in social networking after a list of beta trials that didn’t quite work out. Concerns of privacy, hacking scandals and even just lack of interest managed to kill off more than one project. There were also many others that stuck around for a long while but were eventually dropped as new ideas took their place.
These 10 Google projects are some that made it off the ground but are now dead – some that died too soon and some long after they should have kicked the bucket.
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On September 11, 2001, Madeleine Cunningham was employed as an auditor with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Â Their offices were located on the 86th and 87th floors of the south tower of World Trade Center 2. Thirty-nine of her co-workers perished on that terrifying day and she could have been one of them, however Madeleine had bittersweet fortune of not being in the office. This is just one of so many stories that happened on that historically tragic day.
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What happens when you put rubbing alcohol in a 5 gallon water bottle and then light it on fire? Well, that was something we were wondering too. So we decided to find out on GeekBeat LIVE!
Don’t forget, you can catch all of our new episodes every Friday at 4pm EST/3pm CST at LIVE.GeekBeat.TV. And in the next couple of weeks the show will also begin airing on nationwide television in the US!
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