Seven years of blogging, and a redesign
This blog began in 2003, though the website goes back to 2000, and I now see little difference between what is now a blog, and what in 2000 was a more painful process of authoring web content,...
View ArticleGoing Mobile
In the back of my mind I knew that this blog looked terrible on a mobile, but I did nothing about it until @monkchips complained that it was unreadable on his HTC Magic, which runs Google Android 1.6....
View ArticleFixing a WordPress plugin setting
I changed the theme and plugins used on this blog recently. Along the way I managed to slightly corrupt the settings for one of the plugins, GD Star Rating, the result being that the stars in the Top...
View ArticleA note to RSS subscribers
This blog has a full-text RSS feed. In other words, you can read the entire contents of a post without visiting the site – though I hope you will visit the site from time to time to read the comments,...
View ArticleHow infectious is the GPL? Battle of words between WordPress and Thesis
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, is engaged in a battle of words with the maker of one of its premium themes, Chris Pearson, who runs DIYthemes and offers the Thesis theme on a paid-for basis....
View ArticleWhy is Microsoft giving away web traffic and abandoning users?
I am puzzled by Microsoft’s decision to close Live Spaces and send all its users to WordPress.com. Of course WordPress is a superior blogging platform; but Spaces made sense as an element within an...
View ArticlePerforce is developing a content management system called Chronicle, says we...
I spoke to Christopher Seiwald, founder and CEO of Perforce Software, on the eve of the company’s 2011 user conference which starts today. The Perforce product manages source code, dealing with version...
View ArticleRunning WordPress on Windows Azure
I am investigating hosting this site on Windows Azure, partly as a learning exercise, and possibly to enable easier scaling. I discovered that any web site short of Standard is worthless other than for...
View ArticleNew year, new web site
I took the opportunity of the Christmas break to move itwriting.com to a new server. The old server has worked wonderfully for many years, but in that time a lot of cruft accumulated. The old WordPress...
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