Monthly Archive: September 2007

Sep 16

Testing New WordPress Versions Part 1: XAMPP

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This is Part 1 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. This first step gets us rolling with the Apache / MySql / PHP stack.  Subsequent articles will discuss database copying, code copying and, finally, testing the actual upgrade and features.  This …

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Sep 15

Free Windows ISO Toys

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About two years ago I wrote a little article mentioning a pair of free Microsoft tools that are useful when working with ISO images.  Since that time, I’ve repeatedly searched that article out as I have built or reloaded my machines.  Since I find these so useful, and a few more people visit now than …

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Sep 14

My Cheap Alternative to the BlackBerry

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This is a follow-up to “I Want One… No I Don’t“; an article in which I vacillated aimlessly between lusting for a BlackBerry and denying the obvious attraction. In hindsight, perhaps a bit pitiful to read.  After calming down and spending time on proper reflection I can say that I do not want a BlackBerry …

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Sep 09

Finding Uptime for Windows

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I’ve been happily using my little Pentium 2 Windows 2000 experiment for the past week and am happy to say it is working quite well.  About the only real tweaking I’ve done so far is to drop a custom Firefox build onto it. I suppose I should plan to run through the BlackViper Win2k Service …

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Sep 08

How-to: Another Way to Exclude Posts From the Front Page

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Over at WordPress support, it isn’t all that unusual to see folks wondering how to exclude certain posts from their front page. I typically suggest they grab a “category excluder” plugin[1] and add the posts they don’t want to see to a certain category. The question came up again today, but the person was looking …

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