Category Archives: Blogs

Happenings in the blogging community.

Upgrade or else!

4/8/2008 – 12:48 pm

UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. [...]

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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. [...]

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Benefits of Blogging

4/27/2007 – 11:33 am

My brother-in-law, Bob, has been keeping a blog on wordpress.com for a while now called Arcane Code. He mostly writes about software development using Microsoft tools, because that’s what he does for a living. [...]

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My Favorite WordPress Plugins

3/13/2007 – 11:55 am

One of the coolest things about WordPress is the powerful Plugin API which allows us to create add-ons which can radically extend the basic functions of our sites. [...]

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Reinvigorated

2/7/2007 – 1:46 pm
Reinvigorate Stats

Reinvigorate’s Hourly Stats

About a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote about how the Reinvigorate web stats service was entering a private beta, and I hoped to get a chance to try it out. [...]

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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. [...]

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Site Problems

1/23/2007 – 11:54 am

Over the last few days, it’s possible that you might have tried to visit this site and gotten a blank page. It’s not you, it’s me. Or more precisely, it’s my server, and my attempts to eek a little more performance out of it.

The problem seems to come from APC (Alternative PHP Cache). [...]

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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. [...]

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Blogging is like that

11/17/2006 – 12:47 am
Cover art for Plans by Death Cab for Cutie

Plans by Death Cab for Cutie

You know how sometimes a song comes along and gets stuck in your head? But in a good way. [...]

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Some blog spam cases you might want to watch for

10/27/2006 – 12:45 pm

I like to think that I’ve got some pretty decent spam prevention measure in place on my server. My mail server uses RBL/DNSBL services and sets maximum limits for certain protocol violations. [...]

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