You prob­a­bly noticed the lack of posts here at dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous!? This was because we were thor­oughly test­ing the dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous Word­Press theme with Word­Press 2.7 a.k.a “Coltrane”. So as of today we made the jump.
We were run­ning “Coltrane” simul­ta­ne­ously with the pre­vi­ous ver­sion of Word­Press and didn’t dis­cover any strange behav­ior (yet). We are cur­rently inves­ti­gat­ing exten­sions to dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous so that it will become a true social net­work plat­form for dig­i­tal lifestyle news and information.

We are wait­ing for the upcom­ing update of blog­ging soft­ware, code name Crazy Horse. The Blog Rock­stars of the Web know what I am talk­ing about. The next release of Word­Press ver­sion 2.7 is going to have an inter­face over­haul. The top menu is gone, instead all menu actions will occur from the new side­bar, which is far better struc­tured then the cur­rent avail­able ver­sion. Need­less to say I am really look­ing for­ward to this release! But I am very curi­ous if most of the themes and plu­g­ins will work? I will not imme­di­ately install it, I have to verify if all my plu­g­ins and my theme will work.25-10-2008: Some really nice infor­ma­tion for the­me­cre­ators or people who made their own theme can be found here at justin​tad​lock.com and here at ottode​struct.com

I am very hard at work port­ing my old blog to Word­Press. I have to port my theme over, I have a mobile ver­sion, from which I can post from my mobile phone on loca­tion. There’s a lot to be done and to little time to do it. But from a tech­ni­cal point of view it will be a whole lot sim­pler because I don’t have to main­tain my own code­base any­more. But that’s also the catch, I was not very famil­iar with the Word­Press API’s so I had to do to many things at the same time. So I decided to do the back-​end first, then the fea­tures and after that the front-​end. So there you have the reason why I’m late with my posts. I will do my posts from now on “dual-mode” (old way and Word­Press style).

We’re back! Back as in per­ma­nent! So what hap­pened? I got a warn­ing from Apple’s .Mac team, my data trans­fer quota for this period was almost exceeded! What the ….? My whole blog is a mere 75MB. With Google ana­lyt­ics I noticed high traf­fic to two of my arti­cles Spider-​Man and Baby Seals. Either some­one was hot-​linking to my articles/images (band­width theft) or some­thing else was going on. I noticed that my data trans­fer dupli­cated every month. But 5,38 Gb in 16 days? That’s to much (or is it)?I planned to move my weblog to dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net this year and migrate to Word­Press while at it. Last week a host­ing party, which I have my eyes on a few months came with an offer I couldn’t refuse 110GB disk space, 5TB band­width and 110 Domain Point­ers. Did you hear me 5TB of band­width!? At .Mac I have 10GB!!! Site 5 is awe­some host­ing party with the latest tech­nol­ogy lan­guages at your feet. This will offer me more flex­i­bil­ity then .Mac can ever offer me. Okay, here come the fun part… the price! I could buy 19 .Mac accounts for this value. May be if .Mac doesn’t evolve more grad­u­ally I’ll dump the whole package.I would like to thank you for your patience and hope to see you again soon? There we be coming a lot of improve­ments now that we have the abil­ity to go beyond .Mac. For the latest news you can down­load the latest beta of our Dash­board Widget.

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