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Does it have to be a WordPress plugin, or are you open to using the best tool? Mailing list services such as MailChimp, iContact, or Aweber have figured this out (and yes, they'll integrate a signup form with WordPress). WordPress is a great blog platform, but if you want a robust mailing list/newsletter system, use a system designed for mailing lists and newsletters. - Aaron B. Hockley

Does it have to be a WordPress plugin, or are you open to using the best tool? Mailing list services such as MailChimp, iContact, or Aweber have figured this out (and yes, they'll integrate a signup form with WordPress). WordPress is a great blog platform, but if you want a robust mailing list/newsletter system, use a system designed for mailing lists and newsletters. - Aaron B. Hockley

I don't understand how staff identification has anything to do with your URL/domain. - Aaron B. Hockley

The difference between the products you've mentioned and what you say you're trying to do is that the products for for controlling member access to view a site - pay to read. You want people to pay to provide more value to your site... they get nothing in return. I don't see many folks paying to make your site better with no return. - Aaron B. Hockley

Lightroom keyboard shortcuts in alphabetical order - Aaron B. Hockley

"Great writeup. I share some of your observations on the lack of vendors from certain segments... honestly I was expecting more vendors on the expo floor. A big thanks to you for organizing the WordCamp track - you had a great variety of speakers sharing some excellent knowledge." - Aaron B. Hockley

Ideas for blog topics and how to get inspired to post often - Aaron B. Hockley

Chris speaks to New Media Atlanta about social media - Aaron B. Hockley

Case in which a victory is won about redistribution of VNC after alteration, without source code - Aaron B. Hockley

One option is Telerik's WebAii framework. - Aaron B. Hockley

One bajillion kazillabytes! muah hah ha... </evillaugh> - Aaron B. Hockley

"Number of bugs found" is not a meaningful metric any more than "Number of lines of code written" is for a developer. Some bugs are easy, some bugs are hard, and in theory if your development team improves a bunch you might have less bugs in the product. A better metric is suggested in another comment which is number of serious bugs found after QA as opposed to during QA... bugs that make it past QA are opportunities for QA improvement. - Aaron B. Hockley

The command to "use a database" in a T-SQL script is USING DatabaseName - Aaron B. Hockley

There probably is more to your scenario, but just FYI you can use the SQL 2008 Management Studio to connect and manage SQL Serer 2005 instances. - Aaron B. Hockley

Using WireTap Anywhere and GarageBand to record podcasts with independent audio tracks for the local mic and Skype - Aaron B. Hockley

I'm currently using the WebAii automation framework to write some user interface tests against a Silverlight 3 application. I'm new to Silverlight and suspect that I'm missing some bit of information about the HyperlinkButton. The application has a HyperlinkButton and I'm attempting to write code that navigates to the page, finds the button the page, then "clicks" that button (which will then navigate to the NavigateUri as specified in the HyperlinkButton's properties). I can't figure out how to execute that click. The code I have thus far (simplified): Manager.LaunchNewBrowser(BrowserType.InternetExplorer); ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://server/appname/"); var slApp = ActiveBrowser.SilverlightApps()[0]; var menu = slApp.FindName<StackPanel>("LinksStackPanel"); var linkicareabout = menu.Find.ByName<HyperlinkButton>("Some Cases"); I'd expect to see some sort of Click() action, or Navigate() method that I could invoke on the "linkicareabout" variable, but I must be missing how it's... - Aaron B. Hockley

Thoughts on women speakers at conferences - Aaron B. Hockley

I was already going to BlogWorld but the BlogWorld + WordCamp combo makes it an even more exciting trip. - Aaron B. Hockley

I've been in the WordPress world for a few years and my observations have been that most of the "WordPress vs. other CMS" arguments boil down to a couple things: Ultimately, you could use WordPress for nearly any CMS task, and you could use a general CMS to build blog content WordPress was designed primarily as a blogging platform, so that's where it really shines. Yes, it can be used for other CMS tasks, but it does blogging best and that's where you'll find the most support and robust features. More general CMS systems will offer features designed for a variety of content (not just blog posts or static pages), but they won't offer as many features (or as easy of an experience) for the blogging component as WordPress will. Generally I tell folks that if the focus of the site is frequently updated content that is managed in a chronological fashion (like a blog), go with WordPress. If they're looking to integrate a bunch of disparate content and blogging isn't really important, they'll... - Aaron B. Hockley

Your theory of how to do it (have the theme files make a check for the category, then either display the date or not) is correct. I think this code should do it: <?php if (is_category('CategoryThatDisplaysDates')) { echo '<p>Date posted: '; the_date(); echo '</p>'; }; ?> - Aaron B. Hockley

Success story from a photographer who won a judgment against a real estate agent who stole a photo. - Aaron B. Hockley

How are they getting there in the first place? If your php page is making a database call and you'd like to continue using that practice, add them to the database and reload the page. If you'd like to dynamically add them on the page once it's already rendered, then you'll need to use client-side scripting (such as Javascript) to make the changes on the page without a round trip to the server. There are a variety of frameworks and tools (such as JQuery) which can help with the client-side programming. - Aaron B. Hockley

I don't think that I'd call JUnit and NUnit "totally different". They do the exact same thing, using essentially the exact same syntax... - Aaron B. Hockley

The general processes and best practices are the same across languages. You still want to test for boundary conditions, user input issues, integration issues, and so on. The specific mechanics of using the various testing tools will vary depending on the tool being used. Automated test tools use a variety of languages and scripting techniques, so the syntax and details of using those tools will vary. It's much like software development: the theories and high-level patterns are the same across languages, but the implementation details might vary based on the syntax and abilities of a particular language. - Aaron B. Hockley

Apparently OS X contains over 3.5 GB of printer drivers - Aaron B. Hockley

I'm assuming you're a software developer if you're using Eclipse. And you can't figure out how there might be bugs or instability in a piece of software? - Aaron B. Hockley

I'm not sure I'd trust my source control on an infrastructure where the admins had to ask me how to set it up :) - Aaron B. Hockley

There are numerous options depending on which database system you're using. Which database are you using? - Aaron B. Hockley

You should use the second scenario. If you use the first scenario and Test1 fails, you don't know where the problem lies... it could be in any number of things being tested. With the second scenario, you know precisely what single thing is being tested. - Aaron B. Hockley

One important thing to note about the Microsoft Web Tests (with VSTS 2008) is that they are at the HTTP level, not the UI level. They'll work great to test navigation, form submission, and other HTTP calls, but will not test the UI components on a page. This is something important to keep in mind when comparing with other apps such as QuickTest Professional (QTP) which does test at the UI component level. The much-improved test features of VSTS 2010 will include testing at the UI level. - Aaron B. Hockley