April 16th, 2008 — Tech
After upgrading to WordPress 2.5 I noticed some extra tags in the HTML header of my site: an RSD link, a link to the wlwmanifest.xml and a meta tag with the name set to generator.
While the link tags were introduced in an earlier release of WordPress the meta tag came with 2.5. I’m pretty sure that the latter will cause incompatibilities with a lot of existing themes that have a line like this in their header.php:
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.3.2" />
<!-- leave this for stats please -->
In this post I’d like to share my ideas about removing some clutter from your WordPress installation. Continue reading →
February 5th, 2008 — Tech
Lately I’ve been working on a plugin that integrates JonDesign’s SmoothGallery into WordPress. Basically this is pretty straightforward because all I had to do was to build some code around the JavaScript and CSS and put everything into a plugin.
Then I was told that the plugin as I built it wasn’t working with Internet Explorer. I booted up Windows and came up with a solution to this problem that I want to share here: don’t embed SmoothGallery and Prototype on the same page.
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January 30th, 2008 — Tech
This post shows you how not to promote your blog. It’s a satire.
My website statistics are filled with false referrers and dubious keyphrases from various search engines due to referrer spoofing. Some people use this technique to promote their sites. Although I don’t want you to encourage to do this too, this post describes an easy way to spam other people’s website statistics. I wrote a small tool that’ll generate the requests for you: have a look at it here.
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January 9th, 2008 — Tech
If you don’t want Velocity to log anything, you can change its default logging behavior. All you have to do is to implement an interface and set a property before you call Velocity.init().
Depending on the version of Velocity you’re using you’ll have to implement either LogSystem or LogChute.
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