Quick Tip: WordPress on 1and1.com

I recently finished up a custom WordPress project for a client hosted at 1and1.com. Now, 1&1 is a pretty major hosting company, but this is the first time I’ve ever deployed WordPress there so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

Initially, everything seemed just fine — until the first WP minor upgrade was released. The

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer

I caught an interesting post on the Windows Server blog earlier today about the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer beta. This thing is pretty slick and if you do any web development in the Microsoft world, it’s something you’ll want to grab whenever setting up a new environment.

No more wandering around the various

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Microsoft Beta Day

While most of the web world seems to be excited about the release of Internet Explorer 8 beta (for developers), another MS beta has caught my eye as something that might be a bit more useful (for me, at any rate).

While lost in the thunder of the IE8 announcement, Expression Web 2 beta was also

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Humility and building a WordPress Plugin

I've blown most of the last two hours trying to write, what seems to me, a very simple WordPress plugin.

I hate being humbled.

I can get it to show up in the Plugin Page listing and activate, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I gotta find some geekier contacts, this is

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