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Technology Weblogging

I never promised you a rose garden

I’ve become so caught up in the comradery of the WordPress effort, that someone only need mention something and I’m off coding it. However, I can’t put all my time into ‘tweaking’–much as I’d like to. I have other things demanding immediate attention, and the rest of the LAMP essays and code tweaks will have […]

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Technology Weblogging

Additional links for moving from MT to WordPress

Carthik.net has a good summary on must reads for moving from Movable Type to WordPress. LibraryPlanet just wrote up a migration strategy (and provided code) that encompasses how to use WordPress 1.2 new slug feature to support the MT keyword-based shorter file names. If anyone else has any links related specifically to exporting out of MT and importing […]

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Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: who says you gotta be dynamic?

This is just a quick tease not a full essay. Want to see a static HTML page from WordPress? Take a peek. (You can see static rendering of the Atom syndication feed here. Burningbird here. Program modified to grab all content in page and reproduce.) I logged into the #wordpress IRC today, and the issue of static rendering of […]

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Writing

Rose garden

I can’t just ‘do’ technology. The longer I don’t feed that other half of me, the more somber I become. The weather was too nice to stay inside pasting, cutting, and folding for my Art of Book projects, so it was a good time to visit the rose gardens; take some pictures, though I know […]

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Technology Weblogging

Survival guild to LAMP: Taught by tweak

M is for MySQL and P is for PHP I like to go the book store about once a week, to browse the shelves checking out what’s new and have a really nice cup of coffee at the cafe. (Well, and also make sure my books are stocked, but that goes without saying.) A couple […]