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I installed WordPress 2.5 last Saturday on all of the blogs I support. It had passed some preliminary testing on my development blog so I installed it. It is supposed to have increased security, better administrative panels, and the ability to upgrade plugins automatically. They say there are very few changes that will affect the [...]

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Great post Lijin! Sometime ago I struggled to figure out how to install subversion on my WinXP box. The biggest difficulty I had was to understand what the folder layout for Windows box should look like. I ended up using svn1clicksetup to get a standard layout. Due to issues between Subversion and Apache 2.2, I [...]

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Okay, Markus said I shouldn’t do this but I installed Opera@USB on my USB drive and renamed a few files. I wanted Opera to appear as a menu item in the PortableApps Menu.  Here is how I did this.

First I created a directory under the PortableApps directory called, OperaPortable. You can name it anything you [...]

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I just finished checking my WordPress sites with both a dork and a FTP. Google says that there 29,000 infected sites. I guess that I was left out of the party since my WordPress sites are at the most recent stable release.
Cyberinsecure recently posted details of an automated WordPress hacking tool that is doing the [...]

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Keepass is a neat password management program but the documentation is not clear on how to set up an entry so that it will work use the same username and password with multiple web pages. As an example with the following entry, KeePass will autotype the username and password on the login screens for Yahoo, [...]

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For the self-reliant, a third Windows desktop option emerges: Build your own “Frankenvista” on Windows Server 2008
I guess the transformation is nearly complete. Windows Server 2008 has almost completely embraced the Linux model of one code base for servers and workstations. It is the incompatibilities that drive you nuts. Support for third party software has [...]

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Last night I used the WordPress Scanner on two of my blogs and I got this message.
dangerous-check-[0] PHP configuration file found in http://www.somewebsite.com/
I guess it is complaining about the fact that I have a php.ini file. I guess there is a security implication I am do not know about. I googled php.ini and security and [...]

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Last week I revisited LinkedIn and updated my information. It got me thinking. I know my favorite head hunters like LinkedIn, but is this an effective way to network people for charity purposes? This week a board member working on a grant required some demographic data on each board member. I guess the donor wants [...]

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I ran across this page in one of the blogs I read but I do not remember which. I installed YSlow to check out my web sites. It was an easy check. The rules I consistently failed were rules 3 and 4. I came back here for the explanations. Implementing fixes for these rules can [...]

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Since I have a local WordPress blog for my development work, this was a no-brainer. I let Subversion do the hard work. I tried the revised admin panels since they have changed significantly. It was nice to know that my theme and my plugins seem to work fine. So far this upgrade looks pretty solid.

Since [...]

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I found myself trying to remember how to right-justify part of a line in Microsoft Word again. 
If the ruler isn’t visible at the top of the typing area, select Ruler from the View menu. Create a tab stop by clicking on Format | Tabs. In the Tab stop position field, enter the inch number on [...]

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My version of SQL 2005 Express was installed when I installed Visual C++ Express Edition. Today I was trying to use the Upsizing Wizard included in Access 2003 when I ran into SQL Server problems. So here are my tips:

Go into the SQL Configuration Manager and enable TCP/IP if it is disabled. Someone wrote a [...]

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Here is a handy checklist for people creating or modifying WordPress themes.
Note: The following checklist was based on WordPress 2.0. Since WordPress 2.1, WordPress has replaced and introduced new template tags.
Files, functions, and to-dos you need to check-off before using / publishing your own unique WordPress theme:
Files and Templates

404.php
archive.php
category.php [...]

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From the Blueprint Design Studio we get this list of WordPress CMS plugins. I can vouch for Cforms II and Google Sitemap Generator since I already use them. I am definitely going to check the rest of them.

Cforms II - This is far and away the best contact form plugin there is. The reason? configurability. [...]

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Here are two favorites from this post I found via Del.icio.us. The first tip I knew about one of these but forgot how to do it. The second tip I never knew about it.

Make your Outlook Contacts take precendence over the global address list
Make the cmd shell have decent copy/paste

Win32 cheat sheetfozbaca [...]

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Vlad pointed out an outage for Live. His questions about what we are learning are worth repeating:
What are we learning here? Or rather, what should we be learning:

When the service goes down, who is available to help?
When the service goes down, how long does it take for the support/info request to be acknowledged? [...]

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A magazine theme with some interesting ideas. I do not know if I am going to use it but I may use an idea or two. Nice work Alessandro!

Options WordPress Theme: What WordPress themes should be likealessssandro Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:30:00 GMT

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Here is a post from ZDNet about some useful Windows programs that are low cost or free.
I’ve been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I’ve tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. [...]

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