Posted in Blogging on January 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
A few days ago I wrote about a problem I was having with WP-Cache. Cache files were being generated, but none of them were ever being used and the cache counter in the admin area never incremented (it always read zero).
After going through my plugins one at a time, the problem was oddly with External [...]
Posted in Blogging on January 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I've written about my methods for "404 Searching" before, but due to the speed (or lack thereof) with which MovableType handled searches, I disabled the feature entirely.
WordPress is much lighter on it feet, or faster afoot, in many ways. I've been able to re-institute the 404 Search under WordPress without noticing much in the way [...]
Posted in Blogging on January 4th, 2007 4 Comments »
I've encountered some unusual issues with WP-Cache today. I'm using PHP 5.1.4 and MySQL 4.1.21 with WP-Cache 2.0.20 and WordPress 2.0.5. Gzipped content is disabled (Options -> Reading).
When I enable caching, cache files are created in wp-content/cache/, but the counters at the bottom of the WP-Cache Manager page always say "0" (cached pages, expired pages). [...]
Posted in Blogging on January 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
The Sand Trap will be moving DNS servers very soon. I put in the change late last night, and already this morning my own DNS has updated. The server has been running the forum database without any problems for a few days already, so hopefully it will go smoothly.
Posted in Blogging on January 1st, 2007 12 Comments »
I'm going to be writing a book this year with a friend. We'd like to write and maintain the book online (because we're likely to publish it that way), and we're looking for software to do it. We thought of using WordPress or another blogging tool, but we want to organize things by chapter, subchapter, [...]
Posted in Blogging on January 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Inspired by Alex's post, here's a look at my blogging through the years.
2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
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Posted in Blogging on December 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Judi tagged me, so here goes nothin'.
Five Things you might not know about me:
I have a degree in medicinal chemistry (and computer science and French), but I've never been a professional chemist. I like to think that college afforded me the time I needed to learn what I needed to learn. I picked up my [...]
Posted in Blogging on December 21st, 2006 5 Comments »
WordPress 2.0.6 RC1 is now available with a few changes and improvements. Word on the street is that WordPress 2.1 is going to be out in early January.
I hope most of my installed plugins survive. They don't appear to be doing too many "bad" things, so I think I should be okay.
The (dv)3 plan is [...]
Posted in Blogging on December 19th, 2006 3 Comments »
Using Daniel Jalkut's modifications to WP-Cache, I unfortunately found that my results were nowhere near as good as his:
<!-- Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.191 seconds -->
<!-- Cached page served by WP-Cache in 0.198077 seconds -->
Troubleshooting was a two-step process. First, I disabled the two dynamic portions of this site: the random images in the [...]
Posted in Blogging on December 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
I've found WP-Tiger Admin to be one of the most useful plugins in my WordPress installation. It was just updated to version 3.0 and it looks even more gorgeous than before.
I've kicked $10 to the author of the plugin as a small show of my gratitude.
Posted in Blogging on December 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
It turns out I'm going to have to wait to help a friend import from Blogger to WordPress. He has Blogger Beta, unfortunately, and the work-arounds are either too complex or too incomplete.
I'm hopeful that the WordPress 2.1 release can import from Blogger Beta - including comments, though this ticket - which remains without a [...]
Posted in Blogging on December 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
And I don't just mean right now, but overall, in general.
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Posted in Blogging on December 12th, 2006 7 Comments »
Soon I'll be helping someone who has a blogspot domain export their entries. I'll then import them into WordPress and set the guy up with his own domain name.
I found these steps for exporting data from blogger, but I cannot walk this gentleman through these steps. He struggles with some of the more basic aspects [...]
Posted in Blogging on December 11th, 2006 2 Comments »
WordPress' Akismet plugin, well, I'll let it speak for itself:
Akismet has caught 10,627 spam for you since you first installed it.
I "first installed" WordPress here around Halloween.
Posted in Blogging on December 10th, 2006 1 Comment »
Today is my four-year "blogiversary." The very first post I made back in 2002 was called "I Hate Perl." I did then, and I still do now (well, I don't really hate it, I just prefer not to use it).
That preference extends to my blogging tool as well. Back in 2002, I was using MovableType. [...]