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How to Add DesignBump, Vot.eti.me, and FriendFeed to WordPress plugin Sociable

Since I tend to write mostly about web design and development, sometimes people like to “bump” or “vote” for articles. Sociable currently only has the DZone and DesignFloat links by default. So here’s how you can add DesignBump, Vot.eti.me, and FriendFeed links and icons to Sociable.
DesignBump

Save the icon: and copy it to sociable/images/directory.
Open sociable.php.
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Simple WordPress Security Measures?

With the recent Twitter hacking fiasco, web designer Chris Herbert (@ChrisHerbert) provided us with some helpful tips for securing WordPress.
One of the tips is regarding security measures. These tips come from head of Google’s Webspam team, Matt Cutts. Matt talks about securing your wp-admin directory, creating a wp-content/plugins/index.html, and subscribing to the WordPress development blog.
The [...]

5 Easy Ways to Lose Great Designers and Developers

 
As managers, team leads, project managers, and supervisors, we have a responsibility to those we lead. And most often than not, the reason we lose them is our own fault.  It’s a very hard realization to learn that you are the problem and not them. That’s not to say that there aren’t cases where they [...]