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Performancing for Firefox

December 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

I have kept using Firefox on my Mac, and today I read about the Performancing for Firefox extension, so I thought I’d give it a try - I’m posting this using it. It’s quite nifty - you get a split-view screen with the posting editor at the bottom, while being able to continue using the [...]

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Wordpress 2.0 and plugins

December 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Wordpress 2.0 will be released any day now, and like any self-respecting geek, I would like to upgrade as soon as possible, just to have the shiniest, newest toy. The trickiest issue seems to be plugin compatibility. Here’s my current list of enabled plugins, and their status according to the compatibility list:

Akismet 1.12 -worksAkismet spam [...]

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Blogging links from digg

November 25th, 2005 · No Comments

I recently started looking at digg for interesting news and links. It has a very cool feature: you store the details of your blog, and then you can post articles from digg with a single click. So I created a low-privilege account here, entered that account info on digg, set the default category to “Linky” [...]

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Wordpress 1.5.2

August 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Wordpress 1.5.2 is out, and I have upgraded this site. I always find it amazing how easy the process it. Wordpress is a real example of a well-written and easy-to-use web application. This release supposedly fixes issues with category settings from Ecto - this post will be the test.

Update: categories work!

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Testing WordPressDash

June 30th, 2005 · No Comments

I normally use Ecto for posting (not that I’ve done much of that lately), but today I found out about WordPressDash, so this post is just to give it a try. Let’s see how this comes out.

Edit: Hey, it works! It seems to hang for a while at the end, before becoming responsive again. And [...]

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Weblog Tools Collection » Wordpress Plugin Meme

April 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Weblog Tools Collection » Wordpress Plugin Meme: I’m always on the lookout for interesting plugins, and I’ve been trying to find ideas for a plugin to enter the Wordpress plugin and mod competition (also as a good opportunity to learn how to write wordpress plugins). So to continue the meme, here goes my list of non-bundled [...]

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WordPress 1.5 is out (and running)

February 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Wordpress 1.5 has been released! Being new to blogging, I have found wordpress extremely easy to install, use, and full of nice features. This site had been running on wordpress nightly snapshots, and I just upgraded to 1.5 “Strayhorn”. Congratulations to Matt and all the wordpress developers, for doing such a nice job.

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