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WordPress, Comments, Caching, and annoyances

This is just a short note to explain why I turned off IntenseDebate: it just seems to use way too much memory on my server — I had to increased the memory available to my blog twice, and was still having issues.

Quite frankly, I don’t feel like I was getting anything out of using [...]

WordPress 2.3 Transition

You have to redirect your categories to the tags page so that user agents (browsers and RSS readers) can update their links (if they bother, sigh).

PowerShell Highlighting for GeSHi

A while back I switched to GeSHi for source code highlighting in my posts, and recently I started writing PowerShell scripts in my posts, and calmly sticking it in <code lang=“posh”> tags, half expecting it to just work, like all the other languages … but of course it didn’t. So after a few searches [...]

Huddled Columns

I’ve created a variation on the Plain Masses theme, based on the idea of having lots of extra columns on the front page. I got the basic idea from the International Herald Tribune site — they use tables to achieve the effect, and obviously have strict control over what shows up where.

I’ve been trying [...]

Wikia says: Forget Free … we’ll PAY you

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away not just MediaWiki (the software which runs Wikipedia) but also the hosting you need to run it. And even further, if you run what they consider to be a popular website, you can even have the advertising revenue [...]

TextileWrapper 2.0 and GeSHiWrapper 1.4

EDIT I’m inserting an extra paragraph
Just to test if the textile stuff is misbehaving
Because I had an error report.

I’m releasing a new version of the WordPress Textile 2 plugin, as well as my own plugin for doing syntax highlighting with GeSHi. But I feel like I need to explain what’s going on, rather than [...]

Windows Live Writer

So, Microsoft release Windows Live Writer this weekend, and all I really need to say is: Wow, go get this, it could be a home run. I’m typing up this post using Writer, and not only did it work automatically with my WordPress blog … it automatically downloaded my “style” so that I’m actually editing [...]

Ubernyms: the ultimate text-replacement plugin

The purpose of ubernyms is to allow you configure a set of frequently used abbreviations that will be automatically encoded nicely whenever you use them. The goal is to make them visible in a way that is literate for both humans and computers. In other words: we tag them appropriately for your computer, [...]

Best hosting deal?

Netfirms has a coupon code that gives you a year for under $10, but that still might not be the best deal, long term.

Textile Plugin 2.6 released

[announce] Note: A newer version is available. Please see the category page for the latest.

Another release of Textile by Dean Allen in his blogging tool TextPattern 4.0 has prompted me to make another release of my pluing based on his work. This release is so much better than the last couple, that I really [...]