Yearly Archives: 2007
A Stellar Open-Source Application
June 22, 2007 – 11:54 pm
Last night my wife and I could see a bright planet shining above the trees, which is unusual for being in Boston. We didn’t know what it was, but I knew how to find out after just having read about Stellarium.
A Plugin for WordPress 2.3: Include Categories in the Tag Cloud
June 16, 2007 – 5:34 pm
I’m running the cutting-edge development version of the WordPress blogging platform (known as “trunk” to WordPress geeks). So I’m enjoying some of the features that will appear in the next version of WordPress, 2.3, which will probably be released towards the end of the summer. The biggest new feature for 2.3 so far is built-in [...]
Code-name “The Bean”
May 21, 2007 – 9:35 pm
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
May 16, 2007 – 2:10 am
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
May 13, 2007 – 1:13 am
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
May 9, 2007 – 12:47 am
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 [...]