Treehouse, a PDF web development magazine, is offering a free inaugural issue for download. The magazine is divided into four sections: Code, Design, Business and Digest, and includes interviews, book reviews, essays and opinion pieces. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Shaun Inman, creator of the tasty stats program Mint, and Paul Scrivens, of the [...]

Google has launched a new search engine devoted to blogs. Google Blog Search won’t be limited to blogs published on Blogger (owned by Google), but will include any blog that publishes a site feed. You can subscribe to a feed of search results, so your newsreader can be updated whenever there are new entries that [...]

Textpattern, the venerable content management system used on this site, has finally been “officially” released. After several so-called “release candidates,” Dean Allen (Textpattern’s creator), decided to call this first “official” version, 4.0 (Textpattern has been widely used since 2001). If you’re a blogger or would-be blogger, wait no longer. Head over to Textpattern.com and grab [...]