I am looking at moving all of the photos on an existing site over to Flickr. The plan is to convert the site over to WordPress and use the images from Flickr so I wanted an easy way to insert photos. I was looking for something that would be as simple to use as ImageManager [...]
Entries from February 2008
Hacking Flickr Manager 1.5.1
February 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · CSS/WebDesign
Tags: webdesign
A quick review of two Related Posts plugins for WordPress
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments · WordPress
Mitcho found a post I wrote about adding Related Posts to a WordPress blog and said:
I would recommend to you and your readers a plugin I wrote, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. It’s similar in functionality, but has been built with admin-friendliness in mind, and doesn’t require you to edit your theme files. Check it [...]
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Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots
February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
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Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershotslordpet Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:30:00 GMT
This is an interesting site but do not expect quick results from the web site. It creates [...]
Tags: CSS/WebDesign·webdesign
Share This (jQuery): a WordPress plugin » Semicolon
February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CSS/WebDesign
Today I ran across Bennett’s jQuery version of the Share This plugin. By using plugins based on jQuery rather than Prototype library, I reduced the load time for several web sites. I still had one web site that used the Prototype library and I suspected it was because of the Share This plugin. By switching [...]
Tags: webdesign
FileZilla Portable 3.0.6 Released
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · OpenSource
FileZilla Portable 3.0.6 has been released. FileZilla Portable is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your ftp client, server list and settings with you. This new release updates FileZilla to the latest version, works with Notepad++ Portable and other portable editors when moving between PCs, has an [...]
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Truecrypt 5.0
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · OpenSource
We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released. Among the new features are the ability to encrypt a system partition or entire system drive (i.e. a drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication, pipelined operations increasing read/write speed by up to 100%, Mac OS X version, graphical interface for the Linux [...]
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Nimble Method: Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x; Memory Profiling
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Linux, OpenSource
The News: Ruby on Rails performance is dominated by garbage collection. We present a set of patches to greatly improve Rails performance and show how to profile memory usage to get further performance gains.
What’s at Stake: Rails is slow for many uses and did not lend itself well to optimization. Significant performance gains could only [...]
Tags: Linux·opensource
KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Linux, OpenSource
KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage
KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachmets and comments in one single database.
Yesterday I got around to installing KeePassX on my Centos server. The rpm version worked fine but I had to manually create a menu item. For fun I downloaded the new versions of the [...]
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