Planet WordPress

Building the 9rules network (using WordPress). Some very interested ways of stretching WP far beyond a CMS or blogging script. First of a series.

Great interview of the guy running Hotmail, he talks a lot about the scaling of megaservices and some of the concerns of managing tens of thousands of boxes. What would you give to hear a similar interview by his counterpart at Google or Yahoo? Fascinating read.

It is amazing Ping-O-Matic has handled as much traffic as it has thus far, but it really wasn’t conceived with these levels even imagined. It hasn’t had a good update since it was doing 20-30 reqs/second. Time to rip it out and start from the ground up. I’ll blog about it again when the new system is ready.

A birthday surprise! The watch I had on PhotoMatt.org came through and now the domain will start redirecting to PhotoMatt.net as soon as the nameservers change over. Now people can stop asking me about that weird .org guy.

A tentative WordPress meetup for SxSW is starting to come together, the date and time may change, so sign up if you’re interested. This is also the first time I’ve used Upcoming and I must say it’s pretty slick.

It’s nice when people notice these things. There are a few more performance changes planned that may help even more, even while we’re adding more than a thousand blogs every day. Right now we’re in noodle mode, throwing things against the server walls and seeing what sticks.

Newsforge thinks WordPress 2.0 is better than ever. Aw shucks. There is still a lot of work to do still, nice reviews are great but we’re still working our butts off on the next version.

It’s a new year and new people are using WordPress. On the heels of About.com and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal has launched a new law blog powered by WordPress. Hat tip: Blog Herald.

I’m back in San Francisco. This normally wouldn’t be a big deal, except I left at the beginning of December. It has been an exciting month, and I had the pleasure of meeting WordPress users from all over the world in person. I also learned a ton about efficient traveling and getting work done on the road. All great fun, but I am so happy to be back in my own place.

I’ll be speaking at the Northern Voices conference in a few months. Will be my first time in Canada.