Monthly Archives: May 2007

Code-name “The Bean”

Here’s the Bean at nine weeks. We didn’t get as clear a picture as we did for brother Sam, but we did see a speedy heartbeat and some wiggling.

WordPress 2.2: Three Things Developers Will Like

In the newly released WordPress 2.2 the built-in widget support is likely to get most of the attention. Here are three things you as a WordPress plugin or theme developer might also find useful. You can now set your site’s “home” and “siteurl” values in the wp-config.php file Say you have a production site and [...]

I Ran My Computer’s Keyboard Through the Dishwasher

My main computer’s keyboard is 10 years old. It works fine, so I haven’t had any reason to replace it as I’ve built and re-built my computer. Besides, over the years it’s adjusted itself to me; there’s even an indentation for my thumb worn down on the spacebar. But lately the years of dirt build-up [...]

WP-DB-Backup: Important Security Update

Thanks to Alex Concha for pointing out a security vulnerability in the WordPress database backup plugin, which I’ve fixed in the latest version, 2.1.0. If you’re using any previous version of the plugin, including version 1.7 bundled with the 2.0.x line, it’s very important that you upgrade. Please note that for security reasons, the plugin [...]