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A Window With a View

March 30, 2008

I took some pictures from my window earlier this week at work and decided to post them here to test out the new gallery feature built into WordPress 2.5. Let's see how this works.

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Simple Tags plugin & WordPress 2.5 RC2 breaks your blog

March 26, 2008

I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5 RC2 and everything stopped working. Instead of getting my blog or the admin screen, I got the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to a member function add_query_var() in taxonomy.php

I discovered the root-cause of the problem and it is the wonderful Simple Tags plugin. Disabling the [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

March 24, 2008

I know the latest release of WordPress, v2.5 is not officially out but I have been running WordPress 2.5 from their Subversion repository trunk for about the last week. My initial thoughts on the 2.5 release are very positive and all of my plugins and themes have worked without any major changes. Most plugin and [...]

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Website Performance and Optimization

March 24, 2007

A couple of months ago, I noticed that I was getting pretty close to using up all of my monthly bandwidth allocation for my server and that was a surprise. I run several blogs that get quite a few hits but I didn't think I was anywhere near going over my 250 GB allotment. [...]

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PHP Acceleration – Pick Your Poison

February 27, 2007

As I deployed more applications and web sites on my server, I started running into resource issues. Since most of the applications I write are in Java, I run Tomcat on my Linux server. But I also run Apache as a front-end host for Tomcat as well as several PHP applications like WordPress, [...]

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Birthday Tribute to Baby Gavin

February 22, 2007

Gavin Winslow is beating the odds and is about to celebrate his first birthday. Gavin is my wife's cousin’s son and he was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney failure. Gavy was born with only 10-15% function in one of his kidneys, and 0% functions in the [...]

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New Theme for this blog: NigaRila

December 10, 2006

A lot of you read this blog using an RSS reader and so you probably don't see the theme that adorns this blog but I just switched the theme that powers this blog to the NigaRila theme by Sadish Bala. I have been looking for a great 3-column theme and Sadish has created one [...]

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Hosting Woes Over

November 18, 2006

The day started off fairly normally – Check GMail for anything that needs immediate attention, then move to blog stats and then hit GrabPERF to see how my sites are behaving. And much to my very pleasant surprise, my blog made it on the front page of GrabPERF and it was on the good [...]

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WordPress Upgrade Notes

February 12, 2006

I finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.0 a few weekend ago and am now finally getting around to blog about it. I had blogged previously about issues I had upgrading my blog software but those issues were related to some MySQL upgrade and version compatibilities.  To get around the database issues, I used MySQL [...]

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