October 13, 2008 – 12:07 pm
I’ve been saying for years that I want to redesign this site, but I still haven’t made many substantive changes. One of my favorite sayings is, “The cobbler’s children oft go without shoes.” It certainly applies to this site, as I spend a lot of time doing web development, studying programming, CSS techniques, SEO, user interfaces, and many other related disciplines that make up this craft. [...]
Posted in Announcements, Personal, WordPress
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Tagged app, CSS, Design, lifestream, plugin, Plugins, Programming, SEO, Themes, WordPress
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September 9, 2008 – 3:35 pm
As most of you have probably already seen in your Dashboard, yesterday afternoon saw the official WordPress 2.6.2 Release. And as mentioned in the comments on my intitial news break on the 2.6.2 Beta, the focus is on two security patches to cover weaknesses in PHP’s random number generation (which affects password encryption strength), and in MySQL’s field length checking. [...]
Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress
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Tagged Bugs, encryption, mt_rand, mt_srand, MySQL, PHP, random, Release, Security, truncation, WordPress
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August 29, 2008 – 12:23 pm
This is another one of those articles that will be of interest to a minority of WordPress users. In particular, if you use the XCache PHP opcode cache and Neosmart’s XCache object-cache plugin for WordPress. For those of you who don’t know what the heck I’m babbling about, a PHP opcode cache is a bit of software which helps your web server do less work when turning all your PHP code into web pages that a browser can render. [...]
Posted in Plugins, Tech, WordPress
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Tagged .net, cache, caching, Development, object-cache, opcode cache, Perl, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, WordPress, xcache
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August 27, 2008 – 8:02 pm
It’s been seven weeks since my knee surgery. I can now officially put my full weight on my right leg. Unofficially, I’ve already been walking around without crutches for most of the past week. When I had my six-week checkup with the surgeon, I asked when I could drive a car on my own instead of having to get my family members to drive me to appointments. He said “whenever you feel like you can,” so I did.
The important thing about the six-week checkup last week was that it marked the point that my meniscus repairs are healed enough for me to start bending my knee past 90 degrees. [...]
August 12, 2008 – 11:11 pm
Everybody knows that you shouldn’t keep beverages too close to the computer, right? The reason is because eventually, your toddler is going to run up to give you a big hug before she leaves for daycare, and is going to bump your leg. Your leg, in turn, is going to bump the TV tray where you set your coffee cup. The cup is going to tip over and spill several ounces of coffee directly onto the keyboard of your Macbook. And as a consequence, the Macbook is going to cease to function.
Yes, that’s what happened here at Castle Campbell last Friday morning. I tried to disconnect power and battery as quickly as possible, tried using a blowdryer on it, sat it out in direct sunlight for about an hour, and continued to let it air out for quite a while after that. [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems, Personal, Software, Tech
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Tagged Apple, Coffee, Hardware, Linux, mac, macbook, metacity, repair, Ubuntu, window managers, xfce, xfce4
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