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Guess its no secret right now, but Wordpress 1.5 “Strayhorn” has just been released. With over 10k downloads (and the official announcement hasn’t even been made yet!) this is indeed good news for the WP community. Check out the review here and here.

While this might not mean much to the the average reader, it means quite alot for myself as it marks fantastic progress in the blogware that runs this site. People flocked to Wordpress after MovableType went 3.0 and SixApart changed their pricing policy – but what people neglect to remember that MT was never Open Source in the first place.

Why do I continue to choose WP? It’s Open-Source FREE, its EASY TO USE, its HEAVILY MODIFIABLE and runs on PHP + MySQL.

Td.com has stuck with Wordpress since its inception at version 0.7 or so after the fork in the original b2 code by Michel Valdrighi occurred. Its currently powered by WP 1.2.2, has a radio.blog 1.4 courtesy of RadioblogClub and runs a stripped-to-the-core version of OnlyShout as the ShoutBox. I’m pimping OnlyShout as THE shoutbox script for any site as the shouts are contained in a single txt flatfile storing at the most, 13 last posts ONLY. Any spam attempts and the textfile’s nuked. I’ll probably look into an IP tracking feature for more spammasination proofness. The layout for the site is a DIY, Kubrick-inspired skin done by yours truly. There are no other hacks of sorts in td.com except redirection via .htaccess for the author links on the side. Other than that, td.com is all kosher code.

I’ll update this entry as td.com begets more changes to itself. After all, it is my code playground.