I was pleasantly surprised today when I logged into the control panel for my blog to find a notification for the release of Wordpress 2.8 Seeing it was a decimal upgrade I decided to have a look and see what 2.8 brought to the table.

Apparently 2.8 is now quite a lot faster than previous versions but the new feature that appeals most to me is the addition of syntax highlighting in the dashboard theme and plugin editor. Syntax highlighting to me makes coding a lot easier.

Whats more wordpress now has seamless upgrades. Gone are the days of manual upgrades. One click now seems to suffice to do everything it needs to do.

Looks like wordpress is certainly making gains still. Let’s hope they keep it up!

It seems that this blog has been running for over a year, quite a feat considering that my blogs usually don’t last that long. I have some plans for more posts in the not too distant future for some projects I hope to develop. Hopefully they’ll work out well enough to gather some interest, I guess only time will tell.

Patrick

A while back during MacHeist 2 last year I acquired a copy of the GTD application for OS X called TaskPaper. At the time I didn’t think much of it, I saw it as a simple app for making to-do lists rather than anything else and I didn’t really have a need for it. It has been sitting in my Applications folder almost completely unused for almost a year now until I started looking into GTD methods to get some hint of organisation around all the stuff I’m doing.

I played around with the Things demo for a while and I have to say I was quite impressed with it. Things provides a really nice interface which made it easy to use, which was a big plus. Things also sports an iPhone app which synced perfectly with the Desktop version. The one thing (no pun intended) that put me off was the price. Buying the pair of applications for both the phone and the desktop would cost just over €50 which is quite a bit, considering the times we’re in. I also found that while Things sported a lot of nice features, that I wouldn’t necessarily use all of them, so it wasn’t really worth it.

Then I re-discovered TaskPaper sitting in my Applications folder. After firing it up and looking at it properly for the first time I realised it was much much more than a simple application for making to-do lists.

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