Tip: Testing Multiple IE versions on Win7

Here’s a neat little tip I spotted the other day and thought I’d share. If you are running Windows 7 (Pro, Ultimate or Enterprise) and need to test sites with various versions of Internet Explorer (6, 7 and then you’ll find this tip interesting as well:

Run IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the Same Machine

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WordPress 2.5

WordPress 2.5 just went gold (download). There are a stunning number of changes in this release — and I won’t bother to detail them all here. There’s probably going to be about a kabillion blog posts on that today…

I, personally, am not going to stampede into this particular upgrade though. I’ve been following the WP

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Crowdsource Security Testing

I just caught this TechCrunch article about uTest, a sort of outsourced/crowdsourced software testing broker. In short, get paid to find bugs or pay others to find your application’s bugs.

Seems like something similar but focused on security testing would be incredibly useful. Who’s going to launch that one?

Downtime – Resolved

A few days ago I mentioned I was having some downtime issues here. With a bit of luck and a lot of help, I believe I have it solved. 

First off, I don't believe it was a plugin causing the issue. It seems to have (indirectly) been WordPress itself!

Long story short: A spider/bot was, for some reason, requesting a page

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Testing New WordPress Versions Part 4: Upgrade!

This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install .  Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. The third step was the copying of the current WP

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