Category Archives: blog

get some neato wordpress plugin speed profiling stats

Stats. Geeks love em and at some point my blog was acting sluggish and I was all like “OMG would it be that mobile plugin? Or the spam blocker? Or that one that makes it available for mobile?”. Yep, you guessed it. A shear geek panic attack. So I head over to the virtual plugin [...]

getting good stats without google analytics

Google is huge and scary these days isn’t it? I mean they track our ass all over the place and I was actually helping them to do so. On my blog I was using Google’s free Analytics service to keep track of who, when, where and why people came to my blog. The stats are [...]

don’t let the EU censor your internet: stop ACTA

You might have heard that SOPA got stopped (for now) in the USA, a bill to censor the internet and limit online freedom for everyone. An even worse deal is going down on our EU-side of the globe unfortunately, where ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has already been signed, but not yet approved (luckily). ACTA – [...]

10 reasons why wordpress kicks ass

5 minute install. Seriously. Install a new theme for your blog from inside WP. No need to mess with FTP clients and uploading files and stuff. Easy peasy. Tons of free and open source themes to choose from. Plugins allow endless possibilities. Whatever you are looking for probably exists already. Facebook/twitter/whatever integration, fancy widgets, syntax [...]

making your blog go mobile

Mobile! It’s the latest and greatest of the buzzes isn’t it? But it’s damn right too, because more and more people are starting to use their mobile devices to reach out into the fabulous and marvellous inter-webs to do all sorts of productive things like using twitter, visiting reddit, tumbler and 4chan or read interesting [...]

technorati state of the blogosphere survey 2010

If you’re a blogger and feel like sharing how and why you’re doing it (blogging that is) feel free to fill out the Technorati state of the blogosphere survey for 2010. The results should be interesting and available somewhere this november.

wordpress woes: cut-off posts and how to fix them

A while ago I found out some of my older posts were cut-off in the middle of a sentence or even in the middle of a word. Turns out that somewhere along the way of performing WordPress upgrades the MySQL tables’ collation had changed from a latin1 variant to utf8. Turns out that this conversion [...]