kieranbarnes

I don’t! Times are hard. We’re in a credit crunch, spiralling to recession. Apparently.

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Pictures speak better than words…
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I’ve been playing around with YSlow for a while now, now I decided to a quick test on this blog.

This blog, according to YSlow rates a frumpy Grade D, with a score of 61. Not bad, but not great.
A bit of .htaccess trickery should give me a few extra points… Excellent Grade C, with a score of 73.
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I’m getting a pro at installing Wordpress now.I’m trying to cut down my install time to a minimum.
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So I upgraded Wordpress 2.6! Turbo rules!

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I’ve run into quite a few issues in the latest 1.0RC3-7 release of WP-O-Matic. Here’s a round up of the bug fixes and addons you need to actually this potentially useful product useful!
Also, it includes a well known MySQL bug fix.

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I wrote the Extra Cover Cricket site about a year ago to provide a central news hub for syndicated cricket news from around the world. Previously there has never been so much cricket news on a single web site. Seriously!

It was wrote around a single page that provided the home page, the category listing and the single article page. Really simple stuff.
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Firefox dislikes NTLM authentication really. Sometimes it hates it completely.
Specifically when you make AJAX requests from an NTLM authenticated server.

Fortunately, with a bit of counselling there is a resolution on hand.
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No problem if you want to install imagemagick on your server, Ubuntu makes this very easy for you with only a few simple commands.
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Got a problem with WP-O-Matic creating duplicate posts? Or just Wordpress in general. Me too.

I wrote a script to run on a regular basis so sort this problem out.
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