Download Blaskan 2.2 (soon to be on WordPress.org: ticket #6137)
A full overview of all the changes can be found in the GitHub issue queue.
Have fun!
Good times! On Christmas eve, after waiting for approval for almost three months, Blaskan was finally approved and is now available on WordPress.org.
After a little more than just one week it's been downloaded almost 2,200 times and is already among the top 30 most downloaded WordPress themes. Couldn't say that I expected that but it sure is a nice christmas gift!
Visit the issues on GitHub to get a glimpse of what's new.
To see what the theme looks like have a look at Blaskan on my swedish blog or see it in it's full glory on the theme unit test page.
Please provide feedback in the GitHub issue queue or in the forums on WordPress.org.
This is sort of a translation of the blog post I posted earlier today on my companys' swedish site.
Every second friday is free friday at Kollegorna which means that everyone works with open source, learning new skills or works on internal or personal projects.
This last friday was such a day and I spent it together with a bunch of creative people lead by Jonas Larsson developing the web app Luncha ihop and its' english companion You guys should lunch.
Jonas is looking for a new job as digital strategist and wanted to do something more than just a regular job application which led to the idea of Luncha ihop and You guys should lunch.
The site lets you log in to LinkedIn, fetch your LinkedIn friends and let you encourage two of them to have a lunch together. You can also encourage one of them to have lunch with Jonas. Regarding the production of the site we did the frontend development, Deportivo did the design and Teknograd the backend development.
Last night we made a stealth launch and the full public release was this morning.
The release has gone very well and some of the milestones we've reached so far are:
To whom would you say youguysshouldlunch?
Jonas Larsson - project manager, founder
Stefan Ronge, Deportivo – creative director
Hampus Högberg, Deportivo – designer
Fredrik Davidsson, Teknograd – backend development
Tommy Skott, Teknograd – frontend development
Per Sandström, Kollegorna – frontend development
Per Torberger, One Man Show – copywriter
Mattias Åkerberg, Please Copy Me – copywriter
Jeanette Fors-Andrée, Krisinstitutet – communication strategist
Malin Ströman, SVT – digital strategist
Micco Grönholm, Pyramid – brand strategist
Åsa Wallenrud – planner
Creativity Online – Jonas Larsson: You Guys Should Lunch
Lunch, anyone?
Just a short note…
Blaskan 2.1.1 is out and you can download it here.
Expect a longer more thorough post on this topic later this week.
I'm having a shitfest over here this week and made a shitty contribution to the new git.io URL-shortener.
I just made a shitload of votes in this years' Symfony Community Awards – and so should you.
An era has come to an end…
When I was getting started as a young web designer in the late 90s K10k was one of the sites that made me fall in love with graphic design and web development. They were true pioneers and such a great inspiration.
Thank you Toke, Michael and Per for making it happen.
If you did not fit in to the village of 150 people and the chief got mad at you, you were kicked out, the tigers would find you and you would die. So we were trained to fit in, to do what we're told, to buy into the norm.
The key thing to understand is that the rules of SEO aren’t magic or arbitrary. They’re based on the goals of a search engine, which is to find relevant results. Relevance implies genuineness, and genuineness implies trust. So, shockingly, you should try to make your site’s content trustworthy, genuine and relevant. All of the rules have come about due to their utility in detecting those three positive metrics. Good SEO is a by-product of not being a dick on the internet.
SEO for Non-dicks by Matt Legend Gemmell
I just released my first WordPress plugin. Bloglovin Follow enables you to easily add their follow button to your pages, posts or custom post types as well as in a widget.
The plugin was developed for our client Rodeo Magazine.
Not to forget, Piotr Sochalewski deserves a honorable mention as much of the code was lifted and modified from his Facebook Likes You! plugin.