Since PHP 5.0 released a day or so ago, I’ve been seeing how various applications I work with do in the new environment. Porting straight to PHP 5.0 seems to work just fine for the applications tested, including my weblogging tool, WordPress. Ah, but there’s more to upgrades than just a simple turning off of […]
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Talkback as plugin
In my last post on WordPress, Carthik asked about my “Talkback” implementation. I hadn’t included this as part of my WordPress modifications because I’ve had the beastie since Movable Type times and didn’t think of it as a WordPress mod. However, I’ve since converted it into a WordPress plugin; you can access the text of the plugin here. […]
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If only
It’s been slow going getting another book deal. The publisher I’m currently talking with about a book on MySQL/PHP wants to include a provision in the contract to bill me if I’m paid royalties on books that eventually get returned from the book stores. Normally, the returns are more than compensated for by new book […]
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WordPress modifications
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rather than cover each modification I’ve made to WordPress 1.2 to run my site just so, I’m including them all here with links to downloadable source for those interested in implementing one or more of the changes. Very few of these changes fit into the criteria of ‘Wordpress plugin’, primarily because […]
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Yes, where are the women
Eric Meyer had a recent request for CSS gurus for a potential book. I was getting down to the end of the list, thinking to myself, where are the women when I came across Molly Holzschlag asking the same question. I don’t understand why women in CSS are so overlooked, and when the two of us that have been mentioned […]