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Hello from WordCampBirmingham (#wcbhm09).

CMDR Mitchcraft

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WordCampBirmingham is little under an hour and a half underway down here at the Innovation Depot in Birmingham.  Dougal gave an amazing presentation on plugin development earlier and Sara Cannon is giving a great presentation on branding WordPress as we speak.  There’s a lot of people here (around 200ish) and so far the lineup of presentations is looking to be killer.

I’ll update this as the day goes on – Matt M. himself is going to give the lunch keynote so that promises to be good as always.

wcbhm09, WordCamp, WordCampBirmingham
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    WordPress released their press release about WordPress 3.0.4.  As soon as it did, I saw the WordPress hashtag on twitter light up – people complaining about having yet another security update.  I hate to get on a soapbox about this, but seriously – you’re going to complain about people working to make your site as…

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