If you work with multiple environments (development, staging, production etc) when building WordPress sites, you’ll know that WordPress uses hardcoded absolute URLs in the database for various tasks. There are lots of arguments as to why this is done, and whether it’s the best solution, but for now it remains quite difficult to migrate WordPress between environments.
This morning I woke up to announcements of a security upgrade (3.0.4) for WordPress. It is highly recommended that everyone upgrade their installs.
I set to the task of upgrading this and a couple of other websites I look after. All of my sites are on 3.0, but not all of them have seen an update since. Nevertheless I know that upgrading is usually a one click job, and even if you have a more complex setup with massive plugins or theme frameworks like thematic where the order of updating can be important, it usually goes pretty smoothly.
I’ve been toying with Git for a while now. I’ve had it installed on my computer, I’ve read about it, I’ve got an account on GitHub and I’ve even forked a few things (tee hee). But today I’ve gotten serious. I’ve decided to manage my next few personal projects with Git instead of SVN, and try to add it as another tool in my personal web armoury.
Have you ever had a minor developmental nightmare and needed quick access to a Plesk backup? Lost some data or needed a reference point and just wanted to get at a database’s SQL without having to do a full restore? Perhaps you’ve just wondered what a Plesk backup was & what is in it?
Last year I published two parts of a three part tutorial (doh) on the YUI2 Carousel Widget. Since that time, a new couple of new versions of the YUI2: Carousel widget have been released, and it seems my examples do not work with the updated code. This post covers the issues, the reasons why they occur and how to resolve them.
Since the start of ExplicitWeb I have been using this cheap-as-chips headset. It’s done me proud, so I thought they deserved a super quick review before I replace them. Top marks for sound quality The proof is in the pudding! Take a listen to one of the episodes (4, 6 and 8 are my current [...]
Today is my 25th birthday. It feels like a milestone, something that needs to be marked and celebrated. Scarily it’s lead me to do a little thinking: What have I achieved? Where am I now? Where am I going? Where do I want to go? And other such life-pondering questions.
