Category Archives: The Competition

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Thirteen days remaining for submissions

July 16, 2007 – 2:18 pm

Today marks the one-day-less-than-two-weeks point in the competition. Submissions are still due by 12:00 AM (UTC) on July 29, 2007. Lots of Sandbox-related questions have been answered over in the Sandbox Forums and I have received several submissions already, as you can see from the Participants page.
So stop reading this and get back to [...]

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Just twenty days remaining to submit

July 10, 2007 – 1:32 am

By the time you read this, though, you’ll probably just have nineteen days left to polish your design and submit for a chance to win some cash (a total of US$1650 hangs in the balance) and, possibly, massive recognition (see the previous post). Put those together and you have more than substantial bragging rights.
I hope [...]

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Sandbox and WordPress 2.3

June 26, 2007 – 4:33 pm

What should surely be of great interest to all participants is the news that the Sandbox theme is slated for moving in to the WordPress core at version 2.3. Check out ticket #4517 on the WordPress trac for more info.
While not carved in stone, this has been discussed for about a year now (see Sandbox [...]

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Just almost halfway

June 23, 2007 – 3:01 am

There are six weeks left before submissions close for the SDC, so I hope that every one is getting their designs nice and polished and hopefully getting a firm-grasp on how to utilize the countless dynamic classes in the Sandbox. I think a key feature to the best Sandbox designs I’ve seen so far is [...]

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Out of the box

June 15, 2007 – 1:15 am

For all those WordPress enthusiasts out there, I thought I’d briefly mention WordPress Meetups. The WordPress meetup for June in New York is this Saturday at 4 PM, so if you’re in the city, you should stop by. (Ja, the organizer and great guy, refers to me as “member and resident enigma.”)

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