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In a previous post I started creating a phpWebSite theme based on Blueprint. My plan is to convert an existing phpWebSite to the latest version but a theme for the latest phpWebSite(1.3.0) is not ready yet. Since my idea of humor is frequently referred to as cheesy I am calling this new theme, Bleuprint.The theme has [...]

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In my last post I thought I had set up PHPUnit correctly. As I worked through the samples I found out that there were a few more problems.

The first problem was finding the Framework folder used in the samples. This folder exists under the test tree. To make things easy I copied the Framework, [...]

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I have decided to do some playing around with unit tests for PHP. I saw a video on Getting Involved in WordPress and it reminded me of my interest in unit testing. Now I almost want to create some unit tests for verifying WordPress plugins or phpWebSite code. Fortunately, common sense will prevail and I [...]

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I have been pondering for some time whether to convert existing web sites from phpWebSite to WordPress. It is difficult for me to think about these things since I quickly jump to the implementation details. So I decided to back off and look at the problem from the viewpoint of communication styles. For this quick [...]

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P.S. Oh yeah… Les says it appears to nail most of this pdf spam
A little more spam filtering
I implemented this today. So far….so good!

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I finally bit the bullet and decided to create a new theme for the new version of phpWebSite. Part of my problem with starting this project is that I think that WordPress might be a better solution for these web sites. One of the big advantages that WordPress is an abundance of good looking, standards [...]

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FavIcon from Pics — how to create a favicon.ico for your website
I just got finished creating a favicon from a picture and it looks good. This makes the process painless!

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Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion « WordPress Codex
This is a neat way to keep my local copy of WordPress updated. I use the local version primarily to check theme changes and plugins.

First I backed up my blog folder.
Then I used TortoiseSVN to checkout a copy from http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.2.1/ to setup the blog folder with [...]

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Recently I noticed an error when starting NotePad++, “Load config.xml failed”. NotePad++ proceeded to work with a slightly different skin but this error was annoying. The problem started well after my latest version upgrade so I am not sure what triggered the problem. I have been successful running the latest version of Notepad++ so I [...]

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Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Blueprint: A CSS Framework
I saw this a couple of days ago and decided this [...]

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I decided to customize my Outlook Today page with jQuery. The change was pretty simple. My plan was to add the current weather forecast available from Yahoo via a RSS feed. The source for my inspiration was this post by Jean-François Hovine.
The only annoyance is that I get a popup window because I am accessing [...]

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Windows only: Freeware utility Windows Installer CleanUp Utility can remove Windows Installer configuration information from applications that refuse to install. Microsoft created the Windows…
Featured Windows Download: Bowl over corrupt installations with Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
I heard of this utility awhile back but quickly forgot about it since I did not have a use for [...]

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Windows only: Freeware command line utility Win-Get is a Windows version of the popular Linux command line tool, apt-get. Win-Get can automate the installation of freeware applications with a simple…
Featured Windows Download: Automate free software installations with Win-Get
It may be useful. I am not sure right now.

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A review of electronic voting systems commissioned by California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has been released, and the results are “not encouraging…….

Report to California Sec. of State Details Security Flaws in eVoting Systems (July 27, 28, & 30 2007)
This link will take you to the article on SANS site. If you want to [...]

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