When I redesigned this site’s WordPress theme, I decided I wanted to show the most two recent posts at the top followed by the next 8 posts with just the title and a link to the post, so that the front page does not scroll forever. That’s simple enough to do with the template tag […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest version of the Sync in a Blink iPhone app supports Google Contact Groups. This is a wonderful feature addition, as Google adds all correspondents to its “Suggested Contacts” group which then sync down to the iPhone which probably isn’t desirable. I don’t really want all the mailing lists and support email addresses I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently set up Nagois to monitor our Dreamhost sites in support of Communications Tool & Die. I ran into a mysterious problem, however. When I would set the nagios check_http to point to the blog URL it would always return a status of 301 (permanent redirect) and say everything was OK. When I updated the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I use the excellent wp-amazon WordPress plugin to insert Amazon associate links into this site. Unfortunately the version from the web site hasn’t been updated in a long time and it doesn’t work in the newer releases of WordPress. In looking at the support form I found a link to this patch. I followed these […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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