When WordPress 2.6 came out they added some nice functionality around post/page revisions. It’s nice to be able to keep track of your edits. But unfortunately they skimped on the options, making it so that you can’t set a limit to how many revisions it saves, if you want them at all for a certain post or page, or the ability to delete old revisions that you know are just clutter.
Problem solved with the very well done Revision Control plugin! It integrates exactly like I’d want it to. You can set global options (independently for posts and pages) as well as change specific settings for individual items. On top of that it puts a nice little delete link next to your revision list, so if you need to wipe out something you know is just junk it’s super easy.
Revisions go a long way to making WP more of a solid content management platform. It still has some big gaps that keep it from being enterprise level, but it suits my needs here just fine.
Feel free to add your own in the comments.
- Tenured professor with a big research grant
- Best-selling author
- Superstar DJ and/or music producer
There are plenty of others I’m sure but those are at the top of my list right now.
This past weekend I went out of town with some good friends to go relax on the west side of the state. Other than a lot of lounging in the sun, swimming and eating we also watched the inspired-by-true-events movie 21.
I have to say, it was very entertaining. You can definitely tell where they took some liberties with the actual details of what went down toward the end of the movie, but it was still pretty well done. The acting was good, the pacing was good, heck even the effects (what effects they had) were good.
There have been a lot of movies about “stickin’ it to the man” but this one came off as a bit different. Perhaps because it wasn’t completely formulaic (although it was still relatively predictable) or perhaps because the dialog in general was very well written and delivered. It was also a very stylish portrail of what could have been pretty much a documentary. You really got a feel for what it might have felt like to be a college kid with hundreds of thousands of dollars and an ego to match.
Overall it’s a very well done movie and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it.
My good buddy from school started a band not too long ago called Instance based in Eugene, Oregon. Well he gave me a heads up recently that their first single is available as a free download so I’m encouraging everyone to check it out. If you like bluesy rock than this will be right up your alley. Go download the track Different Day!
I’m finding that a lot of the stuff I want to talk about on here would be pretty painful to try and write out. No, not in the emotional sense, just time wise. I want to start doing some tutorials/examples/etc. of some of the sound design I do with Native Instruments Komplete 5 and it’ll just be a million times easier if I can record my screen and upload it to Vimeo or YouTube.
So, I’ll be tracking down a good screen recorder (maybe even a video camera too to show some of the other performance based stuff I do) and getting that together. I’m on vacation now so I’ll have a little time to start organizing this. Well at least until I go relax on the beach of Lake Michigan for the long weekend. 
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