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Great news in my inbox this morning:
Greetings,
I am sorry to contact you through this medium without your consent or prior notice. I am Linda Morgan, am Female American Military Medical Doctor Serving in Afghanistan presently , I am here to negotiate with you on a possible transfer of $4.5 Million to you for safe -keeps and Investments. Kindly contact me via my personal email address: (linda1899@live.com) for more details.
I will be waiting.
Thanks
{Sgt Linda Morgan}
I can’t believe this shit still works, because it obviously does, otherwise this kind of thing would be something else today. I’m also a bit apalled by the fact that Google let it slide through the spam filter.
I’ll keep this short and sweet: Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 3rd Edition is out now and you can get it from your favorite retailer. Mine is Amazon, and should you agree with me then by all means use this link
to kick some affiliate money my way.
A short FAQ might be in order:
I already own a previous edition, should I buy this one too?
Absolutely, and I actually really mean that. A lot of things have happened since the second and first edition of this book, and some old solutions have become obsolete. The new book also abides to the PHP code standards that WordPress have moved towards, which is important obviously.
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Sometimes it is easy to say too much. If you’re a productive fellow you probably have a ton of ideas, some hopes, and a dream or two. The projects are piling up and as you work your way through them you can’t help but start looking towards the horizon for the Next Big Thing that you’ll dazzle the world with.
Do yourself a favor and shut up.
I know all too well how easy it is to start talking about a project way too early. It’s gonna be great, I just know it, and then I’ll convince anyone who’ll listen that this is the case. Most of the time they’ll believe me, I’m persuasive like that. You might be too.
The problem is when you don’t deliver. Real artists ship, you know. So keep your projects, ideas and plans to yourself and don’t start talking about them until the very last moment, ideally a bit later than that. You’ll get a nice reputation of being the one who always delivers, which will make your impact all the better.
There’s some interesting constructive discussions in the comments to my recent column, titled 7 Bad Things About WordPress. Check it out.
I’ve made two minor updates on the site today.
- The Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 3rd Edition page is updated with some more information, and a pre-order link.
- The store page got the pre-order link for the book too. No Kindle edition available there yet.
I also updated my Amazon author page
with a new cover photo and the @tdh Twitter account.
In the not so distant future you’ll see a lot of changes here on TDH.me, as well as a somewhat steady stream of released content that I’ve neglected. Mostly WordPress themes, but there are some fiction that I’ll probably publish here as well.
Is it possible to dedicate a column on a WordPress site to Posterous? But of course!
I know you all have been dying to see the cover for upcoming Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 3rd Edition. It would be downright mean of me to keep you waiting any longer, so without further ado… Continued →
Yes, Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 3rd Edition is done. I’ll post the cover as soon as the publisher gets it my way, along with pre-order links if you want to make sure to get your hands on this major revision of my popular book. More soon!
This week’s column on WPMU.org is about giving someone else the reins, would you dare to do that?
I’ve been interviewed over at Tumbleweed about the Tackling Tumblr book. Check it out.
I’m a big fan of Basecamp (and Campfire), in fact we’re using it almost exclusively for communication at Odd Alice. The new UI looks good, snappy and utilizes stacks in a pretty intuitive way. Here’s hoping it will perform just as well on an iPad. It is coming soon and personally I can’t wait.
This week’s column is about the most obvious way you can make money with WordPress, in case you were wondering.
Don’t buy links.
Don’t sell links.
Don’t sell your content.
Don’t deceive your visitors.
When publishing online you have a responsibility to be honest. Anyone can get paid a few dollars and get a bit closer to the Most Crap Gadgets When You Die award thanks to it by selling out, but the damage done is way more serious. Continued →
Singapore
It is always nice when I get sent emails or tweets about where my books have been spotted. This photo (click for full-size image), which features both the first and second edition of Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (the third edition is on its way!) as well as Tackling Tumblr, was sent to me by Ripperdoc who spotted these books in a book store in Singapore. Thanks!
