The Trouble with Pizza Girls

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The trouble with pizza girls (and everyone else these days) is that they blog.
I love the internet and its bountious opportunities for citizen journalism.  Ten years ago you would never have heard this story.
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Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress in Utah

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

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 see [...]

Sweet Syndication - ConnectBlogs is Reborn

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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 communities a [...]

ConnectBlogs (Version 2)

Friday, February 9th, 2007

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 [...]

Wordpress MU 1.0 Released

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

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!

Welcome to Blogging, Michael

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

My friend Michael Choi of BOOMyeah started blogging recently.  Michael is a cool guy I met while doing some tech consulting.  I’ll be bookmarking him; I hope you’ll check him out too.

Utah Bloggers Conference Details

Friday, June 9th, 2006

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

Category-Specific Feeds in WordPress

Friday, April 21st, 2006

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 in the [...]

Moving a Site with Apache Redirects

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

My boss, Paul Allen (the lesser) asked me to blog about how I redirected his entire blog site to new domain without losing traffic. So at the risk of boring some of my more technical readers, but also in the name of retaining my job, here goes. :)
Before the Move
First, the part I didn’t do. [...]