Hello there! In this blog post I will talk a little about installing the WordPress core using Composer, and why you would want to do that. First of all, installing WordPress in a separate directory is something you really should do. Find more info about it in the Codex. Why? The most important reason is that you […] Read more
Christoffer Larsson
Hi there! In this blog post I will talk a little about using Composer to install and manage your WordPress plugins. You might ask why you would want to do that, so let’s dive right into The Why. The Why At Aftonbladet we are running a fairly large and complex WordPress installation. We are of course using a SCM […] Read more
Christoffer Larsson
Aftonbladet is proud ruby sponsor of Nordic.js, a two-day conference all about JavaScript. Some of the organizers are our friends Martina Elm and Jonnny Strömberg from Hackaway. Together with Johannes Edelstam they organize this extremely relevant conference including top speakers like Jina Bolton, Douglas Crockford and Tom Dale. Have a look at the speaker list. Why […] Read more
Anders Berg
A few of us visited the UX conference From Business to Buttons, organized by InUse, held here in Stockholm April 3rd. Here are my notes and a few reflections: What: From Business to Buttons Where: China theatre, Stockholm Who: 450 UX’ers Why: To learn how to generate business value by creating great user experiences and […] Read more
Erik Olofsson
Great news everyone! WordPress 3.9 “Smith” was just released. Some noteworthy news: New version of TinyMCE. Said to be faster, slicker and compatible with pastes from Word (!!). Developers; update your TinyMCE plugins! WordPress 3.9 will be using the MySQL Improved (mysqli) database extension if you’re running a recent version of PHP. Previews for widgets. […] Read more
Christoffer Larsson
It is sunday afternoon and were heading back to town. It has been an amazing weekend on the hackaway island. Todays demo marked the finale of a weekend filled with creativity, innovation and discussions around the future of media and what it means to players like Omni and Aftonbladet. We have seen so much cool […] Read more
Anders Berg
The hackathon is on its final hours. Teams are polishing (or panically completing) their project ideas. The connection to media/news business is apparent in all ideas. Some ideas are improvements on existing services, some ideas include new ways of interacting with media. They all have one thing in common: the dedicated developers and designers creating […] Read more
Erik Olofsson
Saturday morning. A group from Aftonbladet and Omni is on the beautiful island Ekskäret in the Stockholm archipelago together with 40 external creatives and developers. This is Hackaway, a weekend hackathon. And the challenge is to do some new cool stuff around news, journalism and other relevant areas for Schibsted Publishing. Read more about the […] Read more
Anders Berg
6 hours in on #shd12; coffe and candy overload. Some mixed pictures from Kungsbrohuset: It starts. #shd12 A photo posted by Christoffer Larsson (@chredd) on Apr 9, 2014 at 11:34pm PDT #shd12 – 6 conference rooms full of creativity A photo posted by Jesper Löfberg (@jesperegot) on Apr 10, 2014 at 2:04am PDT Lunch is […] Read more
Christoffer Larsson