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Pictures speak better than words… (more…)

I’ve been playing around with YSlow for a while now, now I decided to a quick test on this blog.

This blog, according to YSlow rates a frumpy Grade D, with a score of 61. Not bad, but not great.
A bit of .htaccess trickery should give me a few extra points… Excellent Grade C, with a score of 73. (more…)

I’m getting a pro at installing Wordpress now.I’m trying to cut down my install time to a minimum. (more…)

So I upgraded Wordpress 2.6! Turbo rules!

I’ve run into quite a few issues in the latest 1.0RC3-7 release of WP-O-Matic. Here’s a round up of the bug fixes and addons you need to actually this potentially useful product useful!
Also, it includes a well known MySQL bug fix.

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I wrote the Extra Cover Cricket site about a year ago to provide a central news hub for syndicated cricket news from around the world. Previously there has never been so much cricket news on a single web site. Seriously!

It was wrote around a single page that provided the home page, the category listing and the single article page. Really simple stuff. (more…)

Firefox dislikes NTLM authentication really. Sometimes it hates it completely.
Specifically when you make AJAX requests from an NTLM authenticated server.

Fortunately, with a bit of counselling there is a resolution on hand. (more…)

No problem if you want to install imagemagick on your server, Ubuntu makes this very easy for you with only a few simple commands. (more…)

Got a problem with WP-O-Matic creating duplicate posts? Or just Wordpress in general. Me too.

I wrote a script to run on a regular basis so sort this problem out. (more…)

So I rolled out some WP-o-Matic upgrades recently. I was all excited that version 1.0RC3-7 had been released. One upgrade went fine, one freaked out - it would run the cron fine, an improvement on the previous version, but it wouldn’t process campaigns. The problem turns out to be the getCampaigns function in wpomatic.php (more…)