WP Theme: Pinky and the Brain Two column, very pink and metallic theme for WordPress with Breast Cancer Awareness in mind. The author requests that you donate $5.00 to the Breast Cancer foundation. The theme is well put together with a “featured post” and “sidenotes” as a category that gets displayed in the sidebar. Striking.

WP Theme: Hoofeiv3 Two column, clean, clear, white and dark theme for WordPress that looks like a Hemingay mod. I really like the comment buttons (has a very 2.0 feel). The theme fills up most of the page and even though I could not find a good demo, comments on the page led me to Jammed which is a good demo of the theme. Looks like del.icio.us and Flickr integeration are also built in.

WP Plugin: Timeline This plugin will create a table in your wordpress database to store important events in your life (or anything else). You simply create a Page and add the timeline code < --timeline--> to have a timeline appear. Events can be linked to blog entries. A WordPress Administrator Options panel allows you to control several aspects of the display. Could be useful for many different types of chronological blogs.

WP Theme: Fresh Two column, clean white on blue theme port for WordPress from Bartelme. This theme does not have widgets support but does support latest comment and Gravatar plugins. Thanks KrisandApril

Good Blog Writing Style There are already too many “good blog writing” articles out there but I find that Phillip does a very good job of putting together some good ideas. I try to follow almost every one of these (except for #1) and found myself nodding in agreement as I read through. Most of it also reminds me of stuff in the manual of style and of advice from teachers, professors and authors that I have tried to adhere to. The first link is the one most people click on, so it should also be the main link for your article. and Credit your sources with a mention and link. are golden.

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WP Comments built with Yahoo! UI Weird cool, highly AJAXed WordPress commenting system built with Yahoo! UI. The experience is definitely worth a clickthrough though I am really not sure of the usability of many of the features. Looks more like a showcase for the Yahoo UI capabilities and the programming capabilities of the author than actual functional improvements. However, it seems to be very well accepted by the public and is definitely full of eye candy! Thanks Corante

Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus This is a diversion but it was a very good read, I liked almost everything that the essay had to say and I really wanted to share it. It almost felt as if I was reading a chapter from a book on Software Management. In school I had one professor (Dr. Henry Ledgard, obviously someone that influenced me quite a bit) who stressed the importance of the software development process and taught good software engineering practices more than the act of generation of code. I remember slugging through tons of arcane code generated through a primitive graphical planning software only to be told at the end that the planning process was the most important. Ditties like “Developers like to satisfy a need, programmers like to finish” and “Programmers like complexity, developers favor simplicity” really strike a chord with me.