Jordy Blog

My friend Mike Smullin (who BTW is an excellent developer of custom Wordpress plugins) sent me this:
Hi Jordy,
Not sure how much you like WordPress or Matt Mullenweg, but I figured I’d let you know about this upcoming event in Utah:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/416950/?ps=5
Enjoy! :)
This sounds like it’s going to be a fun event.  I hope to […]

The aforementioned new version of ConnectBlogs.com rolled into production last night. It will be a process of ongoing improvement, but I’m really happy with what we have now. I think a lot of people will find it to be a valuable resource, and I personally hope it makes the Utah business and tech […]

I apologize that I haven’t posted in a while; I’ve been pretty busy with a number of things: my day job as website manager at Overstock, a lot of website contracting and consulting work in the evenings, my usual slew of volunteer projects, and most recently (and notably) setting up the new version of ConnectBlogs […]

Congrats to local Utah entrepreneur Richard Tripp and the folks from Yepic on their new beta release as featured in Digital IQ magazine. For those of you who haven’t heard of Yepic, its an online “content marketplace that enables bloggers and other users to buy and sell premium user-generated content”. It’s a cool Idea […]

In case you didn’t already notice in your blog dashboard, WordPress has released version 1.0 of its powerfull “Multi-User” platform. Go team!

I’ve finally switched my blog theme so that it’s no longer one of the defaults. This new theme isn’t mine from scratch, but I did do some significant CSS tweaking to make it my own. There’s still work to do, as always, but I think it’s presentable. At least check out my […]

Ryan has posted some Utah Bloggers Conference Details for anyone who would like to attend.

Most people don’t know this, but WordPress automatically builds RSS feeds for specific categories. So if you wanted to syndicate only “tech” stories from the Jordy Blog, you could use this feed:
http://jordy.gundy.org/wp-rss2.php?cat=3
To view which id you could use for a category-specific feed, just click on a category and see what is listed […]

My brother set up a Utah Open Source planet to aggregate posts from anyone who’s an “Open Source FRIEND/USER/HACKER/ZEALOT” in Utah. If you live in Utah, love open source, and want to be aggregated, just follow his submission instructions.
Other good resources for Utah Open Source Junkies:
Utah Valley Linux User Group
Greater Utah BSD User Group
Ogden […]

I just finished setting up Planet blog aggregation software on planet.provolabs.com. It clearly needs some CSS work done on it, but all of the functionality is there.
I was worried that (without an prepackaged RPM) setting it up would be difficult, but installation was much easier than I anticipated. Because it’s just a python […]