December 18, 2014 archive
Dec 18
TDYR 200 – WordPress 4.1 Brings Improved Distraction-Free Writing
Dec 18
New WordPress 4.1 Provides Much Improved Distraction-Free Writing Experience
The beautiful part about this is that when you click in the window and start typing, all the sidebars and menus fade way so that you can just focus on writing...
BUT...
... the moment you move your mouse outside the writing window all the sidebars and menus come back!
This is a huge improvement over the previous experience with WordPress 4.0 where once you clicked the button you were in a white screen with no way out unless you scrolled up and clicked the link in the menu bar that appeared:
I found the WordPress 4.0 way so annoying that I never used it. Inevitably after I entered the mode I needed to change categories or tags or something like that - and so it was simply easier to NOT use the distraction-free mode.
The WordPress development team produced a video that shows how well this new writing mode works.
I like it because it lets me write but also makes it super easy for me to get back to the menus and sidebars.
All you need to do to enable the "distraction-free writing" mode is to click on the box on the right top of the editing window:
It acts as a toggle to turn the "DFW" mode on or off.
Very nicely done!
There were of course many other aspects of the WordPress 4.1 release. The release post and the field notes as well as the codex entry go into much more detail. The Twenty Fifteen theme is pretty cool... and some of the other features are also interesting. But for me... I just like this new writing environment!
What do you think? What do you like best about WordPress 4.1?
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Dec 18
ICANN Seeking Volunteers For DNSSEC Root KSK Rollover Plan Design Team
Do you want to help ICANN plan the best was to roll the root key used for DNSSEC? Are you interested in being considered as a volunteer member of ICANN’s Root KSK Rollover Plan Design Team? Recently ICANN staff sent a message to the public dnssec-coord mailing list and other various mailing lists asking for volunteers. The “Solicitation of Statement of Internet for Membership in the Root Zone Key Signing Key Rollover Plan Design Team” (say that 10 times fast!) begins:
ICANN, as the IANA functions operator, in cooperation with Verisign as the Root Zone Maintainer and the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) as the Root Zone Administrator, together known as the Root Zone Management (RZM) partners, seek to develop a plan for rolling the root zone keysigning key (KSK). The KSK is used to sign the root zone zone-signing key (ZSK), which in turn is used to DNSSEC-sign the Internet’s root zone. The Root Zone Partners are soliciting five to seven volunteers from the community to participate in a Design Team to develop the Root Zone KSK Rollover Plan (“The Plan”). These volunteers along with the RZM partners will form the Design Team to develop The Plan.
The document goes on to list the requirements and the process. Essentially, if you meet the requirements you need to send a message with the requested information to ksk-rollover-soi@icann.org by the end of the day on Friday, January 16, 2015. The Root Zone Management partners will then choose from among the applicants to form the Design Team.
We’ve written here before about how incredibly important it is to get the Root KSK Rollover right, and so we commend ICANN for going through this process to create an appropriate Design Team. We would encourage people with operational knowledge of DNSSEC and DNS in general to definitely read over the document and consider applying!
P.S. And if you don’t know about DNSSEC, or want more information, please visit our Start Here page to find out how to begin!
