This site is powered by the wonderful open source blogging packaged WordPress. I switched to using WordPress permanently in December 2004 using a nightly build. Since that time, the core WordPress engine has matured considerably and I’ve had an excellent experience with it. WordPress supports a plugin architecture, which allows for a piece of code not … Continue reading Site
Friday night, while browsing through an old article on my blog I stumbled onto a post that had a strange formatting issue. This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed formatting issues on my blog, back in 2009 I had an issue with strange characters showing up. After investigating that particular problem, it ended up being … Continue reading Hacked
In 2005 Google decided they were going to attempt to unsettle the online spam ecosystem by recommending that web sites add an additional attribute to a link from site A to site B if they were not verified to be trustworthy. For instance, if someone left a comment on my site who I didn’t know … Continue reading DoFollow No Longer
By now, everyone should be acutely aware that I hate spam. In fact, I hate it that much that I think I’ve written about it every couple of months: Snail mail spam Akismet, friends forever Akismet, how I love thee Akismet spam filtering, the bringer of light This time around it is no different, as … Continue reading Akismet, Stopping Website Comment Spam The Easy Way
Kottke Style Archives is a WordPress archives plugin which produces an archive list in a similar format to that of Jason Kottke. The ingenious thing about the format Jason has chosen, is that it suits a large archive list or displaying a highly compressed archive list. If you’re wondering why you might have such a … Continue reading Kottke Style Archives