wehuberconsultingllc.com

Today I was looking at a list of the top 30 WordPress plugins in blogosphere and decided to give the related entries plugin a try. Adding a related posts section to each post should make the post more informative and handy. It was a little more complicated to add the plugin to the blog than [...]

[Read more →]

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password or correct…
Link to TrueCrypt 4.3
I [...]

[Read more →]

Recently I found out that my Version 2 theme had a problem with the MistyLook options screen under the latest version of WordPress and I could no longer exclude pages from the navigation bar. Before I went about hacking his code to make it work I decided to see if Sadish had upgraded his theme. [...]

[Read more →]

I have been playing around a CSS Optimizer, Clean CSS. The most interesting feature is its ability to merge the same selectors and properties automatically.  This gives you a slightly different picture of what the CSS is doing and where you have duplicated properties. Today I finally gave it whirl on a live site and did not notice [...]

[Read more →]

I installed SP2 late on Friday without any obvious issues besides that it took a long time to install. Late in the evening IIS shut down for an unknown reason. I did not catch it until the following day. It caused several problems in programs dependent on IIS. After I restarted IIS everything has been [...]

[Read more →]

On Microsoft update and apparently soon on WSUS is Windows 2003 sp2. I want you to go over to your servers right now and turn off auto updates if you have then enabled on the servers. For R2 WSUS boxes you won’t get SP2 automatically as SP’s are offered up but not auto installed. [...]

[Read more →]

To validate or not to validate; that is the question. A List Apart’s own Ethan Marcotte helps us to re-examine our approach to standards advocacy and how we can better educate our clients on the benefits of web standards.
 
Link to Where Our Standards Went Wrong
I still prefer that my sites validate but [...]

[Read more →]

Link to Use an XHTML Sitemap for Better Indexing
I just finished adding a Sitemap page to my blog using the instructions on post I have linked to above. Chris did a great job. The instructions were easy and having a single page of all my pages is pretty handy. I think Google has done [...]

[Read more →]

This week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, which is a joint edition with the Giving Carnival, is now up at Donor Power Blog and Tactical Philanthropy. You can read it either place. The selected posts are the same, but Jeff and Sean added their own comments to their versions. The posts take a [...]

[Read more →]

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code [...]

[Read more →]

 
Data sheets for hard drives have always included a specification for reliability expressed in hours: commonly known as MTBF (mean time between failures), or sometimes the mean time to failure. Same difference: One way assumes that a drive will be fixed, and the other, replaced. Nowadays, this number is around a million hours for an [...]

[Read more →]

A while back I decided that Version Control software was a better way for me to manage web site changes. This adds a little bit more documentation and incremental control over the daily backups. For small shops Version Control looks like overkill but it is simple to use. So I bit the bullet and setup [...]

[Read more →]