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Now on Slicehost: Me!

4/21/2008 – 11:03 pm

If you are seeing this post, then you are getting pages served from my new server at Slicehost. I still have to migrate my other web sites, and figure out how I’m going to mange email, but this was a big hurdle, and I’m glad to say that it went pretty smoothly. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in General, Servers, Services | Tagged hosting, self, Servers, slicehost, webhosting | Comments (1)

WordPress 2.5 Released

3/29/2008 – 11:09 pm

If you already run WordPress, then you’ve probably seen the other announcements in your Dashboard about the release of WordPress 2.5. There are plenty of details in the Development Blog posting, so I won’t rehash the feature list here. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in WordPress | Tagged announcement, Plugins, Release, WordPress, wp25, wysiwyg | Comments (24)

WordPress 2.5 RC1

3/18/2008 – 9:24 am

The first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 was announced last night. The adventurous among you can download it for testing. New features include:

Faster load times.
Multi-file uploads.
New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc.
Built-in gallery function.
Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support.
New backend design.
One-click auto-update for plugins.
Reactivate plugins after a ‘Deactivate All Plugins’ action. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in WordPress | Tagged avatars, Beta, cms, contentmanagement, Gallery, gravatars, rc1, releasecandidate, testing, Upgrades, WordPress, wp25 | Comments (38)

Roadwork Next 15 Miles

3/13/2008 – 7:20 pm

I am preparing to move all of my web and email hosting to a new server. I’ve been fortunate to have an in-trade hosting arrangement for many years now (thanks to Jeff at Iguanasoft!). But my host’s owner is winding down some of his equipment, and I had outgrown the server I was on. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, Personal, Servers, Tech, WordPress | Tagged 1024slice, app, hosting, Linux, moving, Servers, Services, slice, slicehost, Ubuntu, WordPress, wordpressmu, wpmu | Comments (21)

Two New WordPress Releases

2/21/2007 – 10:37 am

Announcing not one, but two new WordPress releases: WordPress 2.0.9 (for the 2.0 branch), and WordPress 2.1.1 (for the 2.1 branch). Both versions include fixes for a minor XSS (cross-site scripting) attack vector, plus various other small bugfixes. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in MySQL, Security, WordPress | Tagged Releases, WordPress | Comments (5)

Upgraded

2/5/2007 – 1:57 pm

Okay, I think things are finally (more-or-less) back in shape around here. Sorry about the problems you might encountered here over the past few days. I finally upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1, but I encountered some problems along the way. The problems were really indirectly related to the upgrade, and turned out to be my own dumb fault.

On Friday, I decided to use my lunch hour to perform the upgrade. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, Personal, Plugins, Themes, WordPress | Tagged Amazon, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Sandbox, Spam, this-site, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (8)

WordPress 2.1 Released

1/22/2007 – 11:31 pm

Hot off the presses is the latest feature release of our favorite blogware: WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. You can find a bore-you-to-tears detailed list of bugfixes and feature changes in the Milestone report over on Trac. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, Software, WordPress | Tagged Akismet, plugin, Plugins, Releases, Spam, Web, WordPress | Comments (20)

ViaList

6/29/2006 – 2:44 pm

A couple of years ago, when we moved to the Atlanta area, I was working as a contractor doing some web programming on a project that I couldn’t say much about, because I had signed an NDA. [...]