I’ve worked with a number of different web hosting companies over the years, but I was with DreamHost the longest. A few years ago, DreamHost started doing some wonky things (I won’t get into the details here, as I’ve discussed them enough elsewhere) and I decided to move. I found WebFaction almost by accident and immediately …read more…
In working with people who are new to web design and development, I have often found that backing up a website is one of the last things on their mind. They’re more interested in the fun stuff. Backing up your website is more like a chore. It’s the computer equivalent of cleaning the litter box. …read more…
I was going through some old files and I found this video from a long time ago… http://cdn.kjodle.net/techblog/video/VIC20_ad.mp4 There is so much to talk about here I could go on for hours. A lot of it has to do with my fondness for Commodore computers. (My first computer was a Commodore-64; my second one was …read more…
This site runs on WordPress, and like all WordPress sites, it attracts more than its fair share of comment spam. For a long time, I used Akismet, which is the anti-spam plugin developed by the WordPress team, so I knew I could trust it to work well with WordPress. I was happy with Akismet, but …read more…
Having problems changing a MediaWiki password? With a little SQL magic and phpMyAdmin, you can easily change any password from the database.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted much here. There are reasons, most of which have gone away, so it’s time to get busy here again. I’ve changed a few things on this blog—most notably, I’ve gotten rid of the static home page and gone back to a blog format. I believe that …read more…
I have recently updated my d12 Message Blocks plugin for WordPress. It adds two new message blocks: one with a title and no icon, and another with neither a title nor an icon. You can get it from the WordPress plugin repository. Development snapshots are available on my Git repo.
Unlike some operating systems (*cough* “Windows” *cough*), Ubuntu is pretty good about letting you know that updates are available, and how large they are. If updates are available, a convenient window pops up just after you log in that provides this information to you. However, there are times when you don’t want to update just …read more…
I use DreamObjects a lot: as low-cost online storage, as a CDN for large files (especially podcasts and image files), as a CDN for files I want to have access to from a lot of different locations, and as a place to store WordPress backups (using Ipstenu’s fantastic DreamObjects Backups plugin). The price is great …read more…
I see a lot of posts on the WordPress forums where somebody asks for a plugin that will do foo or a theme that looks like site bar (which may or may not be an actual WordPress site), without bothering what they have found so far. This is almost always a bad idea. For starters, there are …read more…
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