Warning: This post is gonna be stripped back and dirty. It’s an R18+ kind of post! It contains graphic nudity! If you can handle seeing WordPress 3.1 naked then read on…if you can’t then I’d suggest you search for a WordPress plugin that add’s clothes to this post! 
It’s hard to believe that Sennza as a business is only 12 months old. Whats even more exciting for me are the things that we have been able to accomplish in that small amount of time.
12 months ago I was writing about the reasons why we started Sennza, and all of those things still hold true.
I am a big advocate of celebrating the wins along the way, both the small and the big wins, so below is a list of what we have accomplished at Sennza in the last 12 months:
Warning! – You may find the following post humorous.
Yes, It is great to be a perfectionist, and from time we too at Sennza can definitely fall into that category, but at the end of the day sometimes you need to step back and ask your self “Are people really going to care about that?”
We’re pretty close to the impending release of WordPress 3.1 and I do feel sorry for the stress that Matt, Jane and the whole WordPress team have been through for this release cycle! If you’ve been reading the emails on the WordPress Hackers mailing list and looking through the comments on Trac you would’ve know that there have been loads of people who have been hassling the team for new features and bug fixes but not enough people have been helping to contribute. (FYI: Check out this great post on contributing to WordPress on wpcandy.com). Lucky, Andrew Nacin has been a bit of a freak for this release and he’s worked incredibly hard on this release!
Anyways, putting that aside, I’m gonna put my nuts on the line with a few predictions for WordPress related things in January!
WordCamp Melbourne is creeping up quickly! We’ve been very excited about this at sennza. For those of you who don’t know what a WordCamp is then we’ll give you a quick run down! WordCamps are a full weekend of WordPress people sharing information with each other over the course of two days.
WordCamps in America happen very frequently and they always get fantastic attendance which is probably due to both the population difference between Australian and American and also how much more accessible the distances are in the USA.
It’s been an amazing year for sennza. We’ve landed some fantastic clients, made some incredible websites in WordPress, created countless new plugins, started both the WordPress Brisbane and WordPress Sydney Meetup groups and had a ball…but let’s acknowledge the fact that we couldn’t have done it without the wonder that is WordPress!
So seeing it’s the festive season, I thought I’d celebrate by getting into the old ‘silly season’ vibe and doing ‘The Twelve Days of WordPress’ which will reflect the new additions we’ve had in WordPress 3.0 and the upcoming WordPress 3.1!
When I give a talk, I generally leave most of the text off the slides so people aren’t subjected to listening to me read straight of from the slides. I thought for this talk I would also post some notes to accompany.
I’ll start with a quick confession; I’m not a television watcher, I never have been.
There I said it!
I guess I’ve never liked the concept of having content forced on you at a set time as well as having mostly irrelevant ads thrust upon you. In fact, I even threw out my TV on the weekend because it was taking up too much space in my flat. I figured that seeing I hadn’t turned it on in over six months then it might as well go to “Silicon Heaven“.
There is alot of talk about Google’s new social network, tentatively titled Google Me and how Google are the only company that could potentially take Facebook head on. This had everyone thinking that Google was making the ‘Facebook Killer’ until Eric Schmidt came out and announced that ‘Google Me’ would be a ‘social layer’ over Google services.
Occasionally I have a little bit of trouble customising existing WordPress plugins and more often than not it’s because I’m using plugins in unusual ways or mashing up a few plugins and modifying them to suit a certain clients needs. I had this trouble today because I wanted to use NextGEN Gallery and jQuery Colorbox to display images in a NextGEN gallery. By default the combination of jQuery Colorbox and NextGEN gallery will group all galleries on a single page into one massive slideshow rather than keeping each gallery in their own slideshow. So I had to work out a way to solve this.
