Happy Birthday Canada and BraveNewCode!

by Duane Storey ↔ Jul 1st, 2009 ›› 0 Comments

Today is a special day up here in Canada. First, it's Canada's birthday. I have a lot of really fond memories of celebrating Canada day in Ottawa. Around 10am in the morning people would start lining up outside the bars, anxious to celebrate the day with a few beers in hand. The parties would go all through the day, and end spectacularly with fireworks on parliament hill in the evening. Today is also another really special ...

WordPress Plugins Progress Update

by Dale Mugford ↔ Jun 24th, 2009 ›› 3 Comments

We've been making slow and steady progress with WPtouch, and the beta program for the 1.9 release has been stellar. This should be a largely bug-free release, and includes new features as well as a nearly completely re-written plugin under the hood. We've crushed a few dozen bugs, added a new feature called 'Skins', among other new features, and have totally re-designed the WPtouch admin panel. This week we hope to shore up the last of the new feature additions and push ...

Calling All Musicians

by Duane Storey ↔ Jun 23rd, 2009 ›› 2 Comments

Today MySpace announced that they are laying off approximately 2/3 of their international work force, which given the success of companies such as Twitter and Facebook and the lack of any notable changes in MySpace recently, is a bit alarming. In fact, I'm personally starting to wonder just how much longer MySpace can stay afloat, as are many other people on Twitter. After scanning the blogosphere this morning, it became apparent that many musicians and artists are currently leveraging MySpace ...

WPtouch 1.9: Progress Thus Far

by Dale Mugford ↔ Jun 2nd, 2009 ›› 12 Comments

Beta Busting To say that things have changed from Beta 1 through 7 would be an understatement! Thanks to great help in the support forums from those of you who've been actively testing the betas we're approaching Beta 8, a release that will see the addition of skins, a series of mods to the default appearance of WPtouch (the above image shows 'Lavender' and 'Frog'). Skins can be easily selected in the admin, and will add more colorful branding to WPtouch. ...

WordCamp San Francisco 2009 BNC Roundup

by Duane Storey ↔ Jun 1st, 2009 ›› 2 Comments

Saturday was WordCamp San Francisco, and Rebecca & John Bollwitt, John BIehler, Dale and myself all attended. The night before we thought it was a good idea to sit around and drink margaritas until around 2am, so we were all a bit tired during the event. But it was a great event, and we're all glad we made the trip down. Several fairly exciting things happened during Matt Mullenweg's State of the Word Presentation. First, Matt showed ...

WPtouch 1.9 Video Preview: New Header

by Dale Mugford ↔ May 16th, 2009 ›› 3 Comments

We've recorded a quick screencast showing some of the new features within the new WPtouch header. The new header offers the ability to show categories, tags & account options using the iPhone & iPod touch's native select scroller, and also sports a new look for the search and page menu drop down.

WPtouch 1.9 Beta Series Now Available

by Dale Mugford ↔ May 13th, 2009 ›› 1 Comment

We're launching a beta program for the next two major releases (WPtouch 1.9 WPtouch 2.0) because there's quite a few major changes & feature additions which we think require a little extra TLC to get right for our users before releasing them into the wild for everyone. What We Need We’re looking to have a small group of dedicated testers provide feedback and use case issues over the course of successive beta releases. All new beta releases will be automatically shown in ...

New WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker

by Duane Storey ↔ May 11th, 2009 ›› 2 Comments

We were playing around with a little script the other day that would sanity check our own plugins whenever we were about to do a check-in into the repository. There are some common errors we've hit a few times during development, so we created the script to try and locate those. It worked so well in fact that we decided to analyze the whole WordPress plugin repository. The end result is available at http://plugincheck.bravenewcode.com. The HTML files ...

The Road To WPtouch 2.0: An Exposé

by Dale Mugford ↔ Apr 29th, 2009 ›› 6 Comments

Long Overdue, But Worth The Wait It's been a long time coming, but we're getting close enough to WPtouch 2.0 to talk about some of its features and enhancements, trials and tribulations, and what's in store beyond the 2.0 milestone. Though not due out for another 3-4 weeks or more, we fully expect to have both the WPtouch 1.9 and WPtouch 2.0 releases available sooner in beta form as there are many under-the-hood changes which we'd like our loyal users to test ...

The Trouble With “Free”: Open Source Woes

by Dale Mugford ↔ Apr 26th, 2009 ›› 12 Comments

Lately we've discovered more than a handful of sites using modified versions of our WPtouch mobile plugin, with our byline removed and no mention of us or WPtouch whatsoever. As a couple of guys who've put countless hours (and that's not an exaggeration, really there's no way we could count!) into this project, it's a kick in the teeth to find out that someone else has entirely stolen your work, which you've offered for free to the open source community. What's ...

Earth Day @ BNC

by Dale Mugford ↔ Apr 24th, 2009 ›› 0 Comments

We're usually pretty mindful about the environment individually, but as a company we're trying to do little things to show our commitment. That's why this Earth Day we made a small donation to the WWF in the order of a hundred bucks. It's a small deal, but a little something to mark the day. When considering organizations, we often look to those whose operations are international— but we're certainly not opposed to those which are local, or suggested. So with that, ...

Making A Good Blog Impression

by Duane Storey ↔ Apr 21st, 2009 ›› 3 Comments

I spend a great deal of time each day bouncing around the web and looking at websites. Most of the time I'm simply doing research for some web development project I'm working on (or potentially quoting on), but sometimes I simply do it to get some inspiration from other sites. Without a doubt, the majority of websites I encounter are either poorly developed or often incomplete. As someone who spends a lot of time on the computer, hitting a ...

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