The importance of short iteration feedback cycles
I blog at best once or twice a month on my regular low-intensity blog, which runs my home-grown Mylos software, but am surprising myself by blogging on an almost daily schedule with this...
View ArticleFeedburner down again
I just tried unsuccessfully to subscribe to a feed hosted by the annoying bozos at FeedBurner. From my Temboz feed error counters, it seems FB feeds have been failing with 503 errors for at least the...
View Article@font-face embedding
I updated my wife’s home page to use embedded fonts (in this case the Fonthead GoodDog typeface for headings) with the @font-face CSS primitive. With the introduction of Firefox 3.5, all the major...
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Mozilla Weave
Mozilla Weave is a project of the Mozilla Labs to build synchronization of bookmarks, tabs, passwords and so on between multiple instances of the Firefox browser. It used to be a private beta, but with...
View ArticleSecuring WordPress
WordPress has been getting a lot of bad press the last few days, as a worm is out in the wild exploiting a security vulnerability. This is leading to somewhat unfair comparisons with Windows, and...
View ArticleScientific papers now citing blogs?
In my misspent youth I spent about a year as a visiting scholar researching wavelets under Raphy Coifman’s supervision at Yale’s small but excellent Mathematics Department. Professor Coifman was head...
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RapidSSL 1 – GoDaddy 0
My new company’s website uses SSL. I ordered an “extended validation” certificate from GoDaddy, instead of my usual CA, RapidSSL/GeoTrust, because GoDaddy’s EV certificates were cheap. EV certificates...
View ArticleIncensed at Mozilla
One of the greatest features in the Webkit-based browsers (Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome) is WebSQLdatabase, the ability for a web site to store information in a SQLite database on your browser...
View ArticleChanging the WordPress table prefix
This may be of use to people experiencing the dreaded “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” message when trying to reach WordPress’ admin page, even when logging in as a proper...
View ArticleIf WordPress updates hang on a 64-bit OS
The WordPress instance running this site was no longer able to automatically update plugins (and presumably not the core either) after I upgraded from a 32-bit to a sparkling fresh 64-bit PHP install...
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