Wordpress 2.0 introduced a mechanism for programmers and plugin authors to schedule programmatic tasks to be run at designated times in the future. Glenn Slaven in his article Timing Is Everything does a great job of describing how this works. (Sadly, Wordpress’s convention is that people write Wordpress documentation to their blogs rather than contributing […]
It sounds like Socialtext have pulled off masterful feat of technology: taking a web application and making it available offline. Such a goal is really sound: so many of us live in a ever-more mobile world, the frequently disconnected worker is usually excluded from some of the best apps.
Take, for instance, the case of IBM, […]
You may have noticed yesterday this site’s not displaying the background. This post is in two halves: 1) implications for typical users of Zoundry and Wordpress, and after the (more…) 2) My notes to investigate why this happened. The latter half of this post is more technical.
Symptoms: a) the site’s background chocolate wrapper image appeared […]
I’ve just finished reading Headrush AJAX. Here’s my 40sec review!
Although some 350 pages, I found it a quick read (2 1/2 hours?), so I was really glad I borrowed it from the library rather than buying it.
The book whizzes you through the steps of converting an web app to an Ajax one: instead of interactions […]
Question to DrDave, inventor of http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
DrDave: I recently moved my wpmu installation between hosts. In doing so I inadvertantly went from MySQL 5 to MySQL 4.
That then caused problems about autoincrement flags on the sk2 tables… so I deleted all the sk2 tables reasoning that if the tables were missing then sk2 would recreate […]
Wordpress mu has some stupid defaults that means admins have to hack some core files.
I just submitted http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/109#comment:6
That gives the admin the ability to override the default links that appear in the blogroll.
Hopefully it will make the next release.
M.
I added this to the bottom of wp-cron.php (1.1a) so I can see that it is loaded and when it last ran. Needs de-geeking for general consumption.
