It’s a day that many Droid owners have long awaited – “rooting” the device is now possible. Rooting the device basically allows developers to get around the software blocks imposed by Verizon and enable features like multitouch (which is natively activated on the Droid Eris). Props to the developer(s) for making this possible. Read more  

If you look at the sidebar on RK.md, you can rearrange the fields (Posts, Comments, etc.) in whatever order you want. Furthermore, you can open/close the boxes as you see fit. The best thing about these features is that the user options are stored in a cookie, so the website remembers how you like the sidebar arranged as you browse from page to page (and the next time you visit). Read more  

Woopra Analytics allows administrators to exclude statistics based on a number of criteria (IP address, user names, etc.) However, for websites with only one administrator, a better approach would be to prevent loading the Woopra javascript (JS) in the first place whenever the admin accesses the site. Read more  

After having bounced around between Google Analytics, Wordpress.com Stats, and Woopra Analytics, I’m choosing to side with Woopra’s service for a few reasons:

• All the statistics one could ever want
• Real-time site views
• Ability to chat with site viewers
• OS X, Linux, and Windows desktop clients
• Online interface (real time) for web-based access
• Still in the beginning stages of development, so a lot more is to come.

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When modifying a WordPress theme’s comments section, developers may want to include a particular comment’s number in the flow of the other comments of a given post/page. For example, if you look at the meta section of any comment on this site, you’ll see that I’ve incorporated such a feature. Do I have a reason? No. I just had some free time, and wanted to waste a PHP call. Read more