A small update to iOS version was released today that fixes a few issues that were raised fairly quickly since the last release, just three days ago. Make sure to update and give it a whirl – see if you have any issues on this one as well. Thanks team for responding so quickly! Get it here. As you were.

Today’s creative office workspace is featuring our own technical editor, Tom McFarlin. Here’s what he had to share – are you up next? Submit yours! You can see others so far here.

I’m so enamored by iOS that I’ll admit I can get blinders at times with some of the other technologies and implementations, even the ones that are apparently getting more play time than iOS itself. And some recent stats provided by Pingdom are blowing my mind this morning – for example, it seems that Android is up everywhere and is clearly dominating in nearly every comparison. I knew of this fact because it’s repeated enough in my own back-channel but to see it conclusively is pretty fresh. Check out this compilation of facts related to Android:

I’ll take anything that helps me move faster in my development cycle and things like this mobile boilerplate are awesome, instantly worth the time investigating whether or not it’s up to snuff and quickly getting a bookmark if it puts out well. Similar to the full HTML5 boilerplate, this mobile one comes with analytics (Google Analytics), icons of touch devices, normalize.css (an alternative to CSS resets), a minimal jQuery-like library, and even Modernizr detection. You’ll even get some apache settings to create quality site performance, which you can get here, a node build script, and even an ant build script.

As my good friend once said, We are the avatar generation. It really couldn’t be more true, could it? I mean, we are the first generation to even have dedicated folders on our local systems that house our possible digital avatars, right? (Please admit that I’m not the only one…) Sure, we have services like Automattic’s Gravatar that helps create these automatically via email addresses but when I sign up for a new service I like to choose just the right one for the new web service. It even gives me an opportunity to create a new one as well. I was […]

A lot of people have been asking about this feature to the mega-large network that is Envato and they finally released their single sign on feature this morning. I logged in successfully and was very happy to be able to browse through the many different marketplaces without having to login a bunch of times. For most users this will be fairly seamless after having to login the first time and then they’ll be off to the races. If you see any issues you’re more than welcome to create a support ticket. If you’re not exactly sure what this is all about […]

Brian Krogsgard shared early this morning a near 2,000 word post on his thoughts of his newest public project, Post Status, which we’ve covered previously here when it first launched – it has since grown up a bit as well as Brian’s perspective on the whole endeavor and is an incredibly honest look at what the site’s intent was, what it became through user interaction, and where it may eventually head. The evolution of the outward facing property as it sits today hasn’t changed much (at least not yet) but we can expect to see some things change (even monetization) as […]

Although it seems that many WordPress-based companies are moving away from affiliate programs it’s still not even close to global shift and will always be a big part of growing an online business, whether it’s WordPress or some other digital product. It is, generally speaking, a very successful and strategically-proven method of capitalization. Heck, I’ve tried it multiple times for many different web-offerings and it’s been a good one! But one question that’s come up time and time again is about employees taking affiliate income via their own personal properties and/or projects related to the core business’ product. In other words, […]

I could have sworn that I’ve seen some “Coming Soon” themes in the .org theme repository but perhaps that was my over-active imagination. Chip Bennett opened up a conversation about those types of themes coming soon to .org and I think this move makes sense – sure, as Chip noted, it would break the Theme Unit Test on upload since certain features (e.g. comments) wouldn’t be available on said themes, but logistically that could be hammered out: One suggestion for handling uploads/reviews: rather than having to whitelist Coming Soon Themes in the uploader, perhaps we could add a new tag, […]

Matt Mullenweg didn’t hold back his opinion when commenting on Yahoo’s apparent decision to ban work-from-home opportunities and working remote: For anyone who enjoys working from wherever they like in the world, and is interested in WordPress, Automattic is 100% committed to being distributed. 130 of our 150 people are outside of San Francisco – http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ Coming from Marissa Mayer herself, apparently the change is coming in June and will be an opportunity to “get with the program” or quit: