Wow, has it already been over a year since the last major version of Subtext? Apparently so. Today I’m excited to announce the release of Subtext 2.5. Most of the focus on this release has been under the hood, but there are some great new features you’ll enjoy outside of the hood. Major new features New Admin Dashboard: When you login to the admin section of your blog after upgrading, you’ll notice a fancy schmancy new dashboard that summarizes the information you care about in a single page.The other thing you’ll notice in the...
Yeah, the past few days have been a pretty low moment for me and this blog. Long story short, on December 11, a hard-drive failure took down the managed dedicated server which hosts my blog among other sites. (The following image is a dramatization of actual events and is not the actual hard drive) This is a server that Jeff Atwood and I share (we each host a Virtual Server on the machine), thus all of the following sites were brought down by the hardware malfunction: http://haacked.com/ http://codinghorror.com/ ...
I credit Google AdSense for really opening up the possibility for small blogs to become sources of passive income. Look around the web and you’ll see nearly every blog sport an AdSense ad or two…or three. For most people, it amounts to a bit of pocket change - maybe enough money for a coffee or an occasional indulgence. But soon, the lure of adding more ads from other ad networks overwhelms publishers and soon blogs start to look more like the movie Idiocracy. A while back, Jeff Atwood wrote about how content is becoming dwarfed...