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When it launched a few weeks ago, Google Health received fairly lackluster reviews. Privacy issues and lack of features were the main complaints. Well, I’m here to tell you those initial views are wrong.
Even if you’re a long-time reader of my site, you may not know what qualifies me to make that statement, so let [...]
If you know how to log in via SSH (Secure Shell Access), then you will be able to upgrade your WordPress site in three minutes or less by using the following lines of code.
I have to admit right away that I’m highly indebted to this pre-existing tutorial from Techtites. But that tutorial is a little [...]
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As midnight approached this past New Year’s Eve, I was busy working on a long-term project. I was about to move all of my content (every article and post I’d written) from comeacross.info to raoulpop.com. There were many reasons for this, but consolidation was the most readily apparent.
As detailed on my About page, I’d [...]
This is a bit of a rant, but a recent comment on one of my articles reminded of an argument I sometimes hear as a consultant. It goes something like this: “But what happens if you die?” I cringe when I hear it — not because I can’t defend it — because I find it [...]
» Go to this postI’ve wanted to be able to post the videos I upload to Vimeo on my blog for some time, but the WP video plugins just hadn’t caught up. I’m glad to say that I found one tonight. It’s called, appropriately enough, WordPress Video Plugin. It’ll work just great for most people, so I encourage you [...]
» Go to this postSeveral days ago, I installed the Redirection plugin from Urban Giraffe. It’s truly awesome, in more ways than one. John Godley, you are an amazing programmer! As I re-arranged the categories on my blog, I tracked the 404 errors through the plugin. On Saturday morning, I noticed the following bit of information in my log:
You [...]
» Go to this postQuick note: for those of you already using Zooomr, this may be old news, so skip to the ending paragraphs. I thought a recap of what’s been going on with the site since my last post will help everyone else figure out where Zooomr stands.
Updated 10/29/2007: I’ve revised my opinion of Zooomr since I wrote [...]
Given my concern with image theft, I do not like to hear about Flickr or Zooomr hacks. A while back, a Flickr hack circulated around that allowed people to view an image’s full size even if the photographer didn’t allow it (provided the image was uploaded at high resolution.) The hack was based on Flickr’s [...]
» Go to this postOn Christmas day, I gave thanks for the four top technology solutions that impacted my life in 2006. First on my list was WordPress, which is as far as I’m concerned the best personal publishing platform. The beauty of WordPress is that it’s almost infinitely extensible through plugins. If there’s a feature that’s not standard [...]
» Go to this postIt appears that Web Designer is part of a suite of apps that has yet to launch, called Microsoft Expression. It will contain three apps: Graphic Designer, Interactive Designer and Web Designer. Graphic Designer will be a marriage (in MS fashion) of Fireworks, Illustrator and Photoshop (we’ll see how well that comes out), Interactive Designer [...]
» Go to this postDeliver First Class Web Sites, released by SitePoint Press, is an informative and compact book, but don’t let its size fool you. By using the checklist format, a whole lot of information was packed into this book. Rather than being an instruction manual, this book is a review guide. If you’re not familiar with today’s [...]
» Go to this postCan a single book get web designers to start writing better, reusable PHP code? Peter Lavin makes a go of it in Object Oriented PHP, and it comes out pretty darn well.
The gist of the book is this: would you rather write code that does the same sort of stuff over, and over, and over, [...]
