Posts under ‘Techie’

My prayers have been answered!
For quite a while now, I have been trying to figure out how to integrate phpBB with Wordpress. I have known and used the phpbb_fetch_all mod for quite a while, but I had not figured out how to handle merging the two cookies/sessions.
In skimming the WP wiki, I found this [...]

Dave Carpe of passingnotes has posted an interview with the developer of Spurl.
I do not have my head around it quite yet, but Spurl looks like a creative new technology for bookmarking. Could it be Google II?.

When I tell people what I pay a month for web hosting, they think I am foolishly wasting money. There are thousands (well, at least hundreds) of hosts out there, but what isn’t readily apparent is that the ones who offer the cheaper accounts are, more often than not, just resellers for one of [...]

I just modified mtdewvirus’s Recent Comments plugin. Check out the results in the navigation on the right.

I have been having trouble for about a week with Ecto (a tool that allows me to edit entries in a text editor rather than in the web browser). It turns out the issue was with the xmlrpc code in Wordpress that was fixed in last night’s build.
Update: After finding this patch everything is [...]

The problem of junk email — aka spam — is out of control. I am now averaging 100+ per day.
The best filter I’ve found for Windows is Spamnet from Cloudmark. It works invisibly in Microsoft Outlook with very few false positives. The reason why it is so effective is that it takes a Google-like [...]

I started this blog two days ago and was originally using Movable type, but because of my familiarity with PHP, I quicckly decided Wordpess would be more appropriate.