Sydney IT manager and software developer Ben Barden is the creator of Injader, an open source content management system (CMS) for websites and blogs, and an Australian made alternative for the likes of Wordpress or Movable Type.

Tomorrow, Saturday 7 June, marks the first anniversary of disassociated's migration to the WordPress CMS. It's been quite a ride, which incredibly, almost saw disassociated behave like a blog (though I still prefer to call it a website) for a time. Three posts made (thanks Kurt :) the front page of Digg (subsequently melting down disassociated's erstwhile web server), there was a ... Read full entry

New admin UI on WordPress.com, 2.5.1, and 2.6 This might be the time for WP users, still kicking up a brouhaha over the controversial 2.5 release, to take another stress pill... WordPress 2.6 is on the way says WP lead developer, Ryan Boren. I and the other WP devs will be focusing on fixing bugs for 2.5.1 and planning 2.6 features. After the lengthy 2.5 cycle, we'll aim for ... Read full entry

Wordpress 2.5 Sneak Peek Forget Moveable Type, the latest release of WordPress, WP 2.5, will feature the design genius of the Happy Cog Studios crew. For the past few months, we've been working with our friends at Happy Cog - Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico - to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that ... Read full entry

Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off Missed this somehow. A molehill that became a mountain somehow. Not the intention, just the way it turned out I guess. It's the bloggers equivalent of the Mac vs. Windows flamewar - WordPress vs. Movable Type. The controversy kicked off earlier this week when Six Apart's (Movable Type's parent company) Anil Dash posted a note suggesting that WordPress users consider ... Read full entry

According to one of my sources, an upgrade of the fine WordPress CMS was due for release on March 10. March 10 has pretty much passed on all points of the globe by now, and so far Wordpress 2.5 remains elusive... Oh well. I had been working on a small tweak to disassociated (just a few changes here and there) which I was going to roll out when I ... Read full entry

WordPress 2.3.3 I had pencilled in March 24 was the next big, or milestone, day for Wordpress users, but another interim WP upgrade has been issued today. WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog. In addition to fixing this security ... Read full entry

The Flash maestro himself Joshua Davis has switched to Wordpress. But he hasn't moved from the likes of Blogger, or Movable Type, he's moved from Flash. I had to view source just to make sure. Via resist.

2.4 Skipped 2.5 Is Next It now looks like the next Wordpress upgrade will arrive in March, rather than later this month, and will be issued as 2.5 rather than 2.4. As discussed in the developer mailing list, the next release of WordPress will be in March instead of January because of the holidays and the amount of changes that will take place in the codebase as well as the ... Read full entry