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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. [...]

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

WordPress 2.5 Beta

3/2/2008 – 9:49 pm

I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.5 Beta. So far, everything appears to be working just fine.

And since I know lots of people will ask, I checked my plugins, and most of them (HeadMeta, Text Filter Suite, and Easy Gravatars), work just fine. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged avatar, avatars, Beta, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, headmeta, plugin, Plugins, text-filter-suite, theme-preview, WordPress | Comments (26)

Firefox 3

1/4/2008 – 10:18 pm

Late last night, I installed Firefox 3 Beta 2. I’ve been running it all day, opening and closing tabs throughout, with a peak of around 45 tabs open, and an average somewhere around 25-30.

I don’t know what they’ve done to improve the memory handling (it’s currently using 394M virtual, 161M resident, 19M shared), but the responsiveness has been awesome. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Browsers, Software, Tech | Also tagged Beta, Firefox, Performance, ui | Comments (4)

Merry Christmas to me!

12/18/2007 – 12:26 pm

I get to unwrap one of my presents early this year, and it ranks up there with some of the best — a new job! I’ll be working with Alex King and the other fine folks at Crowd Favorite. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in CrowdFavorite, Personal, WordPress, Work | Also tagged CrowdFavorite, Development, Jobs, Perl, PHP, Programming, Web, WordPress, Work | Comments (14)

Easy Gravatars version 1.1

11/16/2007 – 11:26 am

My Easy Gravatars plugin is now in the WordPress Plugin Directory, and I’ve released version 1.1.

Changes:

Gravatar images now link to comment author’s URL, if provided.
Gravatar code now prepended to text instead of appended.
Added stylesheet for options page and improved layout. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged avatar, avatars, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, plugin, Plugins, Releases, update, WordPress | Comments (46)

Easy Gravatars Plugin

10/24/2007 – 6:33 pm

Since so many people seemed to be interested, I went ahead and coded up my new Gravatars plugin: Easy Gravatars. It’s designed to be simple to use — just upload and activate. If you want it to be a little harder, you can visit the plugin’s options page to set the size and rating for the gravatars, and even set the location of a default image, and tweak the CSS a little bit.

Download: easygravatars.zip

I’m going to put it in the WordPress Plugin Repository when I get a chance. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged avatar, avatars, CSS, gravatar, gravatars, images, personalization, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | Comments (112)

Atom Publishing Protocol Clients?

1/21/2007 – 2:38 am

Does anyone have a suggestion for a blog client that implements the Atom Publishing Protocol API? I’d prefer a client that runs under Linux, but I could also deal with a Windows-based client using Wine. [...]