BurningbirdSam Ruby came out with a posting that covers a conversation about characters and RSS 2.0 and Rogers Caldenhead, but ends up with a simple statement about syndication feeds: The key takeaway here is to beware of anybody who preaches one true format or one size fits all. Each format has its strengths. And none of them […]
I don’t follow too many traditions when it comes to holidays. Without strong family ties or kids, I don’t celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving; and since I lack a religious foundation, I don’t celebrate Easter or Christmas. However, I still make fried chicken and my three favorite cold salads on the Friday before Memorial weekend, ready […]
I posted some suggestions on the WordPress magic quote problem at the support forum, here. Before running the application, make a mysqldump backup first, using the following: mysqldump -u username -p databasename > wpdatabasebackup.sql When prompted for password, enter password. And this concludes the last of my posts on WordPress.
L is for Linux, A is for Apache, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP/Python/Perl Open source applications such as WordPress (functioning under a GPL license) are gaining a lot of fans and followers in the last few years. After all, there is an inherent goodness to projects that are free enough to quote Mark Pilgrim. Thanks to increasingly […]
I couldn’t believe it when I heard the tornado alarm tonight. The sky didn’t look that bad. The problem is that the storms always come from the back of us so we can’t see the storms coming. Tonight’s was not fun. Tonight’s was, frankly, scary. At one point the lightning and rain and winds were […]