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Burningbird

First new look: Burningbird of Happiness

For those with the time and inclination, I’ve modified my third WordPress test weblog to one of the new looks I’m trying. This one I call The Burningbird of Happiness. It should validate as XHTML strict and CSS with a little more tweaking on my part. And no tables. Site also uses several of my hacks turned into […]

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Technology Weblogging

I’ll take the dusty apple without the worm

‘You’ll have to excuse me if I seem focused on WordPress right now. This week if I’m not working the back end, adding in all sorts of new plugins and other general tweaking around; I’m working the front, creating several new looks for the Burningbird weblog–each as different from the others as possible. Currently I’m playing with […]

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Weblogging

WordPress 1.2 release

The long awaited WordPress 1.2 has just been released. You can download the source directly at the Source Forge page if the WordPress site is slow. A major architectural update in 1.2 is the tool now makes about 25% less calls to the database, which should make significant improvements in performance. I’ve noticed this improvement in my working […]

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Technology

Splitting LAMP from the weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m going to continue the LAMP series later, but won’t be focusing them on the changes I’m making to WordPress. The two discussions aren’t compatible. I’ll wait for the released WordPress 1.2 product and then just post my modifications with instructions about how to incorporate the changes for those interested. […]

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Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: Unlimited weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. L is for Linux, A is for Apache, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP At this time, being able to create multiple instances of WordPress weblogs isn’t built into the tool interface, and some folks have been turned off of the product because of this. After all, […]