Mind these shell commands are more for those who have shell access to their domains and are having to deal with upgrading many WordPress installs or are just wanting to be lazy. If you look at it, you’ll see its very simplistic, and I didn’t do “garbage collection.” In otherwords I left the install files [...]
One of the cool things that Google does is have different people do presentations on a subject and record it and throw it up on Google Video. Quite often its about subject that are interesting in only really a geeky sense, so I tend not to post about them here (I think I’ve only posted [...]
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Growing up I jumped from computer to computer for a number of years. At times working on multiple systems at once. In no particular order I was on computers from Apple, Atari, Commodore, Colecovision Adam, TI 99/4A* and oh yeah the Trash 80 for dos. In that time I wrote some basic programs (and played [...]
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OK… I’ve had a strange bug pop on occasionally for the last couple weeks, in which people surfing the site in Internet Explorer get the error “Operation Aborted” when surfing the main page. You don’t get it just reading any of the articles. So does anyone out there have a clue? Firefox doesn’t see anything, [...]
What can be made to fit in 180KB? Nowadays not much. It seems that with computers getting faster and more powerful the actual programming has become more lax. So I was pleasantly surprised to see this demo for a game. The demo executable is only 180KB that’s it. To give you comparison, my Battlefield 2 [...]
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In what has got to be the stupidest move in the history of community features, Digg has created a URL-powered friend-adder. Basically, all you have to do is visit the url http://digg.com/invitefrom/{username} such as http://digg.com/invitefrom/russvirante and you automatically add them as your friend if you are currently logged in to Digg.So, why is this royally [...]
A hacker managed to sneak into the WordPress server and modify the code in the 2.1.1 release, introducing an exploit that would allow for remote PHP execution. Although the 2.1.1 package does not seem to have been compromised when it was initially released, WP encourages all users to upgrade to 2.1.2 to patch the security [...]
Prototype.js != $(). I’ve been thinking about other JS libraries lately, like Moo, jQuery, and Dojo. (jQuery and Dojo both use WordPress for their blogs.) We need to make a final final decision about what JS framework we’re going to stick to for a year or more before we release WP 2.1. [Photo Matt] I [...]
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After speaking at Yahoo earlier, I drove a few miles down the street to Google for MySQL Camp. I caught the last session of the day, by Googlers saying how they used MySQL internal to Google. (I assume for the Adwords application.) Here are the stream-of-talking notes I took. The most fascinating bits I took [...]
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