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At my “Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My!” talk (slides) at WordCamp San Francisco 2011, I talked a bit about my ideal WordPress repo setup. In the spirit of sharing, I’ve now made that skeleton setup into a GitHub repo.

What you get is a WordPress repo starter kit. WordPress is in a subdirectory (/wp/

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We're all looking for new ways to make our jobs faster, and be able to deploy a basic WordPress install as quickly as possible. Well, Mark Jaquith just did the work for you. :) You only have to fork, add your own starter theme and favorite plugins, and you're good to go!

It was a perfect day.

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Il y a exactement un an, nos deux familles se réunissaient pour un événement très spécial. Je me souviens du pollen dans l’air, du soleil, des coups de tonnerre au loin, du riz sur mon costume, des sourires, de la musique, de notre première danse, de David qui traduisait tout…

C’etait une journée parfaite.

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Egy éve, két család találkozott egy különleges alkalomból. Emlékszem a kis szöszmöszökre, a napsütésre, a viharra a távolban, a rizsnyomokra az öltönyömön, a mosolyokra, a zenére, az első táncunkra, Dávidra aki mindezt fordította…

Tökéletes nap volt.

lunch time

A few months ago, we were skiing down that mountain. We are now enjoying the view :)

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Here at WordPress.com, we have over 200 themes (and even more plugins) running inside the biggest WordPress installation around (that we know of anyway!) With all of that code churning around our over 2,000 servers worldwide, there’s one particular WordPress function that we actually try to shy away from; query_posts()

If you think you need to use it, there is most likely a better approach.

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Another student demonstration just ended in Montreal, bars are packed. That’s a good night to enjoy a couple of beers with live music.

There are small things in life…

We were there last weekend, and we had fun. You receive a bracelet at the entrance, and you get to build your own Star Wars character based on life choices. Were you born on Tatooine or Coruscant? Did your parents let you leave the house early to go win podraces, or did you have to stay home to clean vaporators? And of course, will you choose the quick and easy path that leads to the Dark Side?

Apart from the game, there were lots of original artifacts from the original trilogy, as well as costumes and early drawings from George Lucas.

All in all, if that exhibition comes to a city near you, and if you are a Star Wars fan, you should definitely go see it! In the meantime, you can check pictures here.

I am now a full-time Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Inc!

You might not know about Automattic yet, but I am sure you have heard about some of its most popular services, WordPress.com, Gravatar, or Akismet.

I am now part of the Happiness team, a group of talented people ^[1] whose only goal is to make you happy! Whether you created a WordPress.com blog and need some help tweaking your new blogging home, or whether you have issues with one of the other Automattic plugins, we are here to help you.

I am thrilled to have the chance to work with such incredible people, to chat and exchange with colleagues from all over the world, to learn from them, and to work on a project that I love!
It’s also going to be a challenge, but I will do my best to live up to it!
In a nutshell: it’s awesome! :)

If you’re as much a WordPress fan as I am, you should apply too! ^[2]

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1. See what I did here? ;)
2. Two people once told me that I had nothing to lose: if you think you’d love to work with us, apply! Thanks to Ian Stewart and Shaun Andrews for their advice!