Checking through my feeds and WordPress dashboard today it seems like Mr Mullenweg is everywhere!

• An interview on “The Way I Work” with Matt in Inc Magazine
• Another interview with Matt on WebLogTools Collection
• And finally Matt’s “State of the Word” keynote from WordCamp San Francisco

The most interesting take home I got from the Inc interview was this:

Music helps me when I’m coding, which is still my priority. When you’re coding, you really have to be in the zone. I’ll listen to a single song, over and over on repeat, like a hundred times.

I’ve found myself doing this a lot lately and was starting to think I was a bit weird, so it’s good to know that at least I’m in good company!

Having moved from a MAC around 10 years ago (yes I know… I moved too Windows) one of the few things I missed, actually probably one of the ONLY things I really missed, was the ability to create a new folder in the file system with a keyboard shortcut. It stuns me that until now this has not been a core feature of Windows. I’m sure it has previously been acheivable via macro editors and OS scripty magic, but seriously…. not a standard feature?!?!

So as you can imagine, I was so frikin’ happy when I stumbled upon CTRL+Shift “N” in Windows 7! I’ve been using the RC since it’s release, and the Beta prior to that and while I cannot speak highly enough of the OS generally this is, by far, the single best feature in my mind.

Another features in I’m loving is window snapping. The ability to snap windows to various parts of the screen, eg. left and right  halves for file copying. You can also cycle through all available positions via keyboard shortcuts (Windows key + arrow keys).

While some may consider Vista to have been an abject failure, Windows 7 is in my mind the polar opposite, a well thought out, fast, stable and get this “Mature” operating system…  arguably the most compelling upgrade in Windows almost 25 year history.

I noticed these ads a week or so back while reading Mary-Jo Foley’s blog… love the reference to the Tron mono-cycle in the first one, Awsome!

After being unable to make it to WordCamp Australia late last year I’ve been waiting for a New Zealand event and here it is! WordPress lovers everywhere should add it to you calendars, WordCamp NZ, August 8-9 2009 at the Mt. Victoria Bowling Club right here in Wellington. Matt Mullenweg is keynoting which should be awsome and I’m sure there will be plenty of other great speakers lined up over the coming weeks.

No.1 on my wishlist for speakers/topics I’d like to see covered would be Andy Peatling of BuddyPress fame as I think this is the single most exciting development in the world of WordPress right now.

For updates and info follow @wordcampnz on Twitter or visit the WordCamp NZ site.

The title says it all… Coltrane is yesterday’s news, roll on Baker… WordPress 2.8, a much more subtle release than 2.7 has hit the street (and this blog) and not a post has passed this way in between!

While I haven’t been posting here on ConceptFusion I have been managing the occasional post on my family blog and in leu of posting here I have been working hard on some other, soon to see the light of day, WordPress related things.

In the mean time I’m gonna try to get back on the blogging wagon. As always, stay tuned… you might be surprised!