some goodies if you missed Wordcamp 2006

I wasn’t able to attend Wordcamp 2006 because basically I won’t be going anywhere near an airport for the next decade so I’ve been looking for any goodies on it…

I just noticed today that Matt Mullenweg’s keynote address for WordPress 2006 is up on Google video!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7587757814963421312&hl=en
Yay! Thank you to whomever posted that. He looks and sounds like he is 16! I feel sooo old.

Mark Jaquith has also promised to post some audio recordings. I hope he recorded his talk about WordPress performance as I am looking forward to hearing it.

Other places to see/read what happened so you don’t feel so left out include:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/wordcamp/
http://wp-community.org/
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/?s=wordcamp
http://wiki.wordcamp.org/index.php/Main_Page

WordPress 2.0 & 2.1a is *still* using Atom 0.3

Although it was slated for WP 1.6, WordPress still is using the deprecated Atom 0.3 output.
Time to update atom xml to 1.0 ! Find the fix instructions here:
http://nlindblad.org/2006/08/05/wordpress-atom-10-support-revisited/

(the original php5 fix is here but I figure most people are still using php4)

I also just found this in trac, Atom 1.0 template from July 2005 and
someone posted an Atom 1.0 comments template back in October 2005.

I discovered the PHP4 fix was not quite complete so I had to do a few minor tweaks.

Here are the two templates I edited, zipped up for the lazy or non-programmers.
http://www.savefile.com/files/4808860

Better 404 error page behavior for WordPress

After wasting an hour trying to debug a problem I was having with WordPress I discovered I had actually fixed it within the first minute – it was just that my browser was obeying the caching behavior set by WordPress for the 404 page! After a hard-refresh I found that the error was gone and it was working properly.

So I desided to improve the WordPress 404 behavior.
You can do it too, add this to the very top of your header.php template