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Matthew from Digital-Web has offered this tidbit about the EllisLab Sneak Preview event down at SXSW…

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First things first — with Wordpress 2.5 due out on Monday, we’d like to give the community, and ourselves, at least a couple days to install/adjust before launching Mimbo Pro. Otherwise things are going great and we’re finishing up the last of hosting and commerce issues….

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Zeldman cautiously supported the IE8 team’s previous strategy of default version-targeting whereas Jeremy Keith argued passionately against it. In the end, supporters of Keith’s argument prevailed in getting the IE8 developers to change their minds…

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It’s been a very productive week with very little sleep, but things are progressing nicely with Mimbo Pro. Ultimately, our goal is to create a CMS-like theme that requires no manual template editing. To achieve that so far, we’ve added to a growing list of features which are handled through a custom control panel tab. During testing this weekend, we had a few more in-the-moment brainstorms…

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It’s been out for a couple years, but today I finally tested CSS Vista, a lightweight app that allows simultaneous live-preview of CSS in both Firefox and IE6, a nice alternative to running three separate applications…

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Back in the relative old days of 2003-2004 when orange RSS icons started appearing in the sidebars of websites, very few users knew what to do with them. Jeff Veen said said…

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Barring any major snags, the Mimbo Pro theme will be released in less than two weeks. It will be sold exclusively through a new WP theme marketplace run by a blogger/friend who also contributed some fancy programming to Mimbo Pro’s control panel options. Here are some features to look forward to…

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After thinking about it for awhile, I’ve committed to renting out my house for two months this summer so I can live abroad and work remotely. The plan is to find a room in some beach town, work on what is hopefully a reliable and fast connection, and otherwise travel, surf, read, write, drink in bars, and clear my head for awhile…

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If you’re disappointed more Democrats didn’t support the Dodd-Feingold Amendment, which would’ve held the telecom industry accountable for helping government officials spy on private citizens, Matthew at Defective Yeti has created a handy Clip ‘n’ Save reminder for November…

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You wouldn’t be able to tell judging by the tardiness of Mimbo Pro (ha), but I’ve always been (unhealthily) obsessed with finding ways to do things more efficiently. It’s what inspired this previous post (”Streamline Your Process: RSS Feeds, Bookmarks, Frameworks, Design Resources”).

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For his art school thesis, Jeremy Pettis designed unique type styles to resemble 26 different animals — one for each letter of the alphabet. [via Typographica]

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Here is a common navigational scheme, with parent pages on top and child pages (if they exist) on bottom…

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Since a lot of people are asking, I’ll go ahead and announce that Mimbo Pro is in production and slated for release within the next four weeks. Now that the homepage is sliced up and populated with dummy data and I’ve seen the image carousel in action, I have to say, I’m getting pretty excited about this…

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What happens as your posts get published, ping servers, get indexed, get scraped, get syndicated, linked by other blogs and finally consumed? If you want to see the life cycle demonstrated in an awkward, unnavigable Flash format, Wired magazine has your number.
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