October 18th, 2008
It’s great to see that the habari guys are committed to security as well as functionality and are providing security updates for there pre-1.0 software. It is a pity to see that they don’t disclose much in there security announcements.
For me, responsible open security practises should mean that as well as providing a quick response to security issues you provide enough detail about the issue to your users to allow them to make a judgement call about how important the upgrade is to them. Do they need to do the upgrade immediately because the issue is easy to exploit or can it wait till the weekend when they have more time to ensure they have a backup and a plan for when the upgrade goes wrong.
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March 20th, 2008
Now WordPress 2.5 RC1 is out it the wild for testing we are receiving some reports of strange problems with some of the ajax functionality in the admin pages so I have prepared a quick tutorial to help people collect the relevant debugging information to help us investigate the problems.
Here is how to prepare:
- Install Firefox (if you don’t have it already!)
- Install firebug. This is the web debugging tool of choice.
- Load up the relevant WordPress admin page that is not working for you.
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January 8th, 2008
It seems that back in Oct 2006 when I updated my site design to use a simple plugin to automate the page listing all my plugins I managed to zip up a non-working version of the code. Thanks to Stephen Rider my incompetence has been discover and I have now released an updated version of the plugin which will actually work for other people! If you have attempted in the past to use my query child of $page plugin and failed please head over to the page and download a working copy.
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December 11th, 2007
Eclipse PDT rocks. My WordPress development environment now has a debugger!
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September 30th, 2007
As part of keeping track of the WordPress 2.4 development cycle I have started a series of WordPress weekly digests over on my other blog.
You can read the first one here: http://westi.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/wordpress-weekly-digest-24th-september-to-30th-september-2007/
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September 7th, 2007
I’m proud to announce that this site is now “living on the edge” – I finally found the time to write a Tag Importer for Bunny’s Technorati Tags which will hopefully make it into the final WordPress 2.3 release (if not the next Beta version).
Well it was about time to start running the my own code.
One of the new features that really sticks out after upgrade is the Plugin update notification – it lets you know when updates to plugins which are downloadable from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ are available and includes a link to the plugin entry for you to download the update.
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October 14th, 2005
Just discovered RoundCube a multilingual, skinable IMAP webmail client. With AJAX, XHTML and CSS goodness. Maybe something that can replace my squirrelmail install for remote access to my mailbox.
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