ImageShack is a hosting place for those hard-to-place images, or the ones you just need to host somewhere, and Flickr just does not cut it, maybe you feel it ain’t fast enough for you. I was speculating there, sorry.
Category Archives: Technology
Upgrade and upgrading
Luisa just upgraded to the new WordPress version, 1.5 (Strayhorn), and it is so much better than this 1.2 thing. Tobias also runs the 1.5 and I suffer from deep version envy. The comment spam problem should be interesting to look at, as they have just begun using their new 1.5 WordPresses. Has the upgrade …
Comment spam: Trackbacks
Folks are whining about spam in comments. I whine about spam sent by WordPress to me, containing links to the usual spam-bait. So, today, I concentrated a bit, wandered in the (rather clean, for PHP) code, and found my line. In the folder wp-includes/functions.php there is a function called wp _ notify _ postauthor Open …
Picking an Apache: XAMPP vs. EasyPHP
When you upgrade your localhost’s Apache (aren’t you running one?), and you switch from one PHP package to another, your PEAR might break. Mine sure did!
Learning J2EE
I was at the Knutepunkt larp conference in Norway, and there I met Verneri, a friend, and he whispered something more or less to the effect of: > “Make yourself useful with J2EE.” Hm, Enterprise computing. Where the jobs are. So, I asked what the first step was, and he answered the day after: > …
Skype, friends
Just came back from a conference in Norway. Cold, friends. But very sunny and friendly. Met up with millions of good poeple again, and now we all need Skype, the free (as in beer) phone solution for us who have a computer and a headset. Headsets are cheap, and most laptops already have the microphone …
RubyForge: Snippet Library
RubyForge: Snippet Library is a trove of smart code. I got intrigued by “For more information about Registry manipulation look at win32/registry.rb“. Definitely.
Edit PHP with SciTE
If you edit PHP using SciTE, you should get more productive with it! You can press F5 to run the current program and get output to a console. Most web developers do not associate the console with making web pages, but there are gains in your development speed. No webserver is involved when running the …
More stuff done with Ruby: Ta-da List
OK, here is web usability gods 37Signals‘ won fluff on their very usable web app for making todo lists online: To Do with Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists. To-do list, todo list, task manager, task list, todo task, easy list, simple todo, free todo list manager. What blew me away is that they made …
AppleMatters pulls an iPod Shuffle apart
See the carnage for yourself. It is a little scary: the whole added-value Appleness of the unit it *ripped* off. With just bare, dry commentary underneath it.