For the sake of saving an hour of guessing, here are the proper settings for using Google Apps, or Gmail, with StatusNet, formally known as Laconica: $config['mail']['backend'] = ‘smtp’; $config['mail']['params'] = array( ‘host’ => ‘smtp.gmail.com’, ‘port’ => 587, ‘auth’ => true, ‘username’ => ‘username@domain.com’, ‘password’ => ‘your_secret_password’ ); Adding these settings to your config.php file [...]

First session at WordCamp Portland this morning was “Speed Up WordPress” with Jason Grigs of Cloud Four. He jokingly argues that “we’ve remade the internet in our image and the image is obese.” Since 2003, web page size has tripled, number of objects has doubled, and we can partially blame it on WordPress. On the [...]