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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 [...]

using javascript code in wordpress posts and pages

For this bookmarklet creation tool I posted a while ago I noticed that it was actually quite hard to get some custom written JavaScript code embedded in a WordPress post. When searching for a solution to the issues I ran into, I noticed there either wasn’t a lot of info to be found on this [...]

new theme! finally! yay!

For a while now I was getting pretty tired with my old blogging theme, and wanted to restyle the whole thing. For the new theme I wanted to be able to use widgets, which makes changing your layout so much easier. I also wanted to use the extra screen real estate everybody has nowadays by [...]

moving servers

Yup. After the latest hickups and glitches and the fact that hosting on a Linux machine is considerably cheaper at my hosting co than doing the same thing on Windows I’m moving this blog over to a brand new spanking Linux machine in the following days. I’m hoping I’ll manage to set up things smoothly, [...]

metatale and belgian blog influence

Since I’m scoping out the local Belgian blogosphere lately I read about a project that’s trying to measure the influence of the Belgian, or to be more exact, Flemish blogs and put them in a neatly ranked list. The project is called Metatale and it proves once again that measuring popularity (which is basically what [...]

blogging now considered life threatening

I heard about people getting fired because of their blog before, but getting death and sexual violence threats? That is just plain sick. We’re talking Kathy Sierra here, a tech writer btw, not some zealot activist for some extremist cause. I mean, if you would read about someone getting threats from pro-lifers after posting about [...]

wordpress upgrade

So I went ahead and upgraded to the latest and greatest WordPress version, being v2.1.2. Always a bit tricky this kind of thing, but I have to say that I never ran into any real issues when upgrading so kudos for the guys working on WP and making the upgrade truly easy and only taking [...]