This week, I wanted to programatically create posts on my Wordpress site, Maxims. Unfortunately, all of the example code I found online for controlling Wordpress was using PHP, and I hate PHP. I wanted to control Wordpress with Ruby using XML-RPC.

In Illustrator, there are line objects and shape objects. Lines are made of points, and shapes are made of boundaries. Since line objects are not easily resized or manipulated, you will want to convert your line into a shape.

Every time you set up a new Wordpress site in Linux, you will need to download a fresh copy of Wordpress. Here’s the fastest way:

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz