Category Archives: Blogging

Programmers don’t like to code?

Rentzsch.com says programmers don’t like to code… Yea… I’ll buy that.  I’ve described “what I do” to many many people as “solving tough problems.”  I’d much rather get into the problem itself than write all the scaffolding and crap that lets me get face to face with it.   So yea. Sign me up. Cheers

Consolidated update of no real importance

I’ve been working very hard (and very constantly) lately, and as is the case with most technical creators this means that the blog has suffered a lack of posts recently.  This is an attempt not to make up for that, but to fill in the gap with a bit of noise.  I like to think [...]

New WordPress Patchsets

WordPress 2.0.6 is out, and I’ve made some patches for those of you who’ve modified your installations and would rather not have to redo all of your hard work! 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 2.0.4 to 2.0.6 2.0.3 to 2.0.6 2.0.2 to 2.0.6 2.0.1 to 2.0.6 2.0 to 2.0.6

When you should (and should not) think about using Amazon EC2

The Amazon AWS team has done it again. And EC2 is generating quite the talk. Perhaps I’ve not been watching the blogosphere closely enough about anything in particular until now (very likely) but I’ve not really seen this much general excitement. The ferver I see going around is alot like a kid at christmas. You [...]

WordPress_2.0.3_to_2.0.4.patch

WordPress_2.0.3_to_2.0.4.patch For everyone who prefers patches to overwrites… heres a wordpress 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 upgrade patch

opera mobile

i have to say that, so far, opera mobile (demo/beta mind you) is the best web browser available for my ppc6700 phone. minimo (ppc mozilla port) would win out except its slow (read SLOW) and crashes a lot. opera mobile is quick, responsivee, has tabs, and works with wordpress (how i’m posting this now!) thunderhawk [...]

Note to self

Just Consider this post a personal yellow sticky note on my web space Read These: “Comet is the new Ajax”, and “Comet, Low Latency Data for the Browser”

HEY NOW!

Scoble, in Strong bloggers dont link writes “but if I read a blog that doesn’t link it usually sucks.” Hey now… I resemble that remark! or… resent… have not really made up my mind about that yet

Captcha

I’ve implimented captcha for comments. If this seems to work for eliminating bot-spam I’ll desist my comment moderation. Cheers DK

2.0.1 to 2.0.2 patchfile

Sometimes us unix folk like to have a patchfile to upgrade our software (especially scripts) so I made one for upgrading my wordpress installation from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. ~/my_wp_webroot $ patch -p1 < WordPress_2.0.1_to_2.0.2.patch