Agnes discovered this on Friday. My immediate — and enthusiastic — response was, “So what distance should we do?”
The Pacific Populaire is an annual cycling event held by the BC Randonneurs Cycling Club. From their website:
Greater Vancouver’s first major public ride of the cycling season is the Pacific Populaire. Since its inception in 1986 the focus of this event has been to encourage participation by all cyclists regardless of fitness level, cycling experience, or age. For some, the ride is a challenge to turn in a fast time, a personal best, or to complete a greater distance than in a previous year. Others will be out for a relaxed spring ride, fresh air, and exercise.
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Since I released my PreFormatted plugin the other day, I figured it was time to polish up my other active plugins and offer them for download. Plus it gave me an excuse to put together a WordPress plugins page. I’m working (or planning) on a few other plugins for WPFF so this will be a good home for them too.
Here they are:
- Keywords — A cross between a
<meta name="keyword"> tag plugin and a Technorati tags plugin, this lets you enter keywords for every post for searching and more! Learn more
- Page Date — Simple plugin to update a page’s timestamp every time it’s modified (you can do this manually for posts, but not pages). Learn more
I’ll probably try to get these hosted in the WordPress Plugin DB or the official WordPress plug-in repository, but wouldn’t you rather get them from the source?
“A branch is like a puppy.”
- Eric Sink on source control branching
Eric Sink has just posted the latest chapter of his informative Source Control HOWTO series.
The explanation? “Don’t create a branch unless you are willing to take care of it.”
I’ve just finished the beta version of the “PreFormatted” WordPress plugin. Basically, it stores posts & comments in their final, formatted form rather than processing them every time a page is loaded. It provides only a modest decrease in page rendering times, but that’s not it’s real purpose anyway.
WPFF lacks some of the nicer features of WordPress, including polished post formatting. But if the WordPress back-end pre-formats everything, then WPFF size and speed can be maintained without any extra cost! So this really is a WordPress plugin that makes WPFF look nicer. The bonus is that you can use it even if you don’t use WPFF…
I just switched on the new plugin today - this is the first post to use it. You can learn more on the new PreFormatted plugin page.
Well, it’s official: the proposed natural gas-fired power plant to be built in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island was approved today. The Duke Point power plant makes poor business sense and even worse environmental sense. It’s a strange decision that’s certainly linked to ulterior motives and the proposal’s long and checkered history.
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