I mentioned a week or so ago that I would be having another article published in the near future. I’m happy to announce that the article is now available. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and head over to have a read. If you have any comments, or suggestions on accuracy or improvements please… Read More »
I know I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been occupied with other responsibilities. Besides work and school I’ve been dedicating a lot of time volunteering on the GNOME Sysadmin team, trying to make sure that it remains a well-oiled development machine! I had a few minutes this evening however and I thought I would… Read More »
I posted about a week ago that I’d begun working on a new theme for the site. I felt like it was time for something new–something a little less plain. I tried out a number of WordPress themes and layouts, and finally found one that I like. I feel it better represents where the site… Read More »
After a bit of testing I just activated a WordPress Plugin called “Intense Debate”, which improves the commenting system quite a bit. You should now notice that the commenting system on this blog is improved, with the following features: Reply to comment Comment rating Sort by: Date, Rating or Activity Notification of comments via email… Read More »
I’ve seen a few posts over here regarding problems with an unmaintained WordPress installation. It definitely can be work to manage software that is not covered within the supported repositories (WP is in the repositories, but its not updated as frequently as upstream). I thought I would cover how I maintain my installations and hopefully… Read More »
As some of you have read, I recently switched this production web server over to Lighttpd, and so far I am very much impressed. I have been tinkering with Lighttpd for some time, and I really feel it is a fine replacement for Apache. It supports all the same basic modules that I need (mod_rewrite,… Read More »
After some testing on some of my less-popular blogs I’ve upgraded this one to WordPress 2.5. The whole ordeal seemed fairly painless (although with the number of blogs I host I really should consider WPMU). I use svn to manage my installations which makes it really simple. If you’re considering an upgrade, these are the… Read More »
After a few updates on the plugin that I’m using and a bit more testing I have re-activated the OpenID plugin for WordPress. If you’re an OpenID user please let me know if you run into any issues. I have tested with my identity and it seems to be working well enough.. If you haven’t… Read More »
Ok, some of you might notice a small hiccup in the blog-time continuum. This is because I reverted to a backup earlier in the day after rebuilding the database from a fresh installation. What a pain, let me tell you. If you notice anything weird about the blog please let me know. From my testing… Read More »
For those that have been following the up & down of the blog today I finally was able to get rid of the errors… by basically completely wiping out everything I had and starting over. You’ll notice the theme is default, minimal plugins are installed, etc. I’m going to have to spend some time this… Read More »