Ruby on Rails 1.1 Released!
Posted on March 28, 2006
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Ruby on Rails 1.1 has finally been released and it is a great release at that. 500+ changes and enhancements have been made with contributions from over 100 people in the open source community.
You can check out the latest on it and find out more info at the Ruby on Rails blog here:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/
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Posted on March 28, 2006
Filed Under Business, CSS/XHTML, Productivity, Ruby on Rails, Tech, Web
Intro to E-Mail Marketing for back-end sales
Posted on March 22, 2006
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I wrote a basic intro about web marketing and e-mail newsletters and how they can be leveraged for back-end sales to the existing client base of small businesses or those promoting products/services online.
You can check it out at Marston Innovation in my article titled: What e-mail marketing can do for you
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Posted on March 22, 2006
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Marketing, Web
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.02
Posted on March 18, 2006
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So this weekend I’ve been merging over many of my sites (including this site) to the newly released Wordpress 2.02. I’ve pretty much held off as all my upgrades were from 1.5.0.3.
I was somewhat concerned that it would get totally messed up and my permalinks would be non-working after the upgrade. My fears came to be somewhat realized as after I upgraded none of my permalinks worked but it was only due to my missing one of the upgrade steps.
- Tip: Make sure you delete your wp-content/cache folder.
- Tip 2: Make sure to disable ALL your plugings before an upgrade to V2 from V1.
Once I fixed that I updated my permalinks, added the old rules and everything seems to be working great so far. I do notice things to be a tad bit faster as well.
As for the administrative end, I do like the redesign. I used to use the Tiger OS X admin theme for a while but found it too slow. I’ve found a new theme: Spotmilk that I will give a try. If I like it I’ll be sure to give an update.
UPDATE 1
Well, I may have spoke too soon. It seems my “Previous Posts” and “Next Posts” functions seem to be broken. They used to be at the top of ever archive page, but now I got a SQL error. I then went into the archive.php template and saw my old template was using old functions of it compared to the new style templates that come with WP 2.0.2. So updated it to reflect the default theme in WP but got the same error. The code in question on the archive.php page is:
<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”>< ?p_hp next_posts_link(’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”>< ?p_hp previous_posts_link(’Next Entries »’) ?></div>
</div>
So I’ll have to do a bit more research on this, I’m sure its happening to others. What is weird is the “Previous/Next Post” on the single.php page works fine when viewing single posts.
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Posted on March 18, 2006
Filed Under CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, PHP/MySQL, Ranting, Tech
Running XP on Intel Macs
Posted on March 16, 2006
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The contest to get Windows XP running on the Intel macs have been won! The winner took home $13,854.
Here is the released bootloader, files and how-to article to get XP running on Intel Macs and you can find more info at forum.onmac.net.
I know that once I get my new 20” Intel iMac this will come in quite handy. But I must say what I really want is XP running at native speeds from WITHIN OS X. I’m sure Virtual PC can’t be that far behind with a universal binary…
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Posted on March 16, 2006
Filed Under Apple, Daily Thoughts, Productivity, Tech
Fighting Comment Spam from Push Button Marketers
Posted on March 16, 2006
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As I’m sure many of you have experienced already, comment/blog spam is in no short supply and not exactly the greatest thing to deal with in your life. I ran across a good article about Push Button Marketers whom use various tactics to blog/comment spam.
He even outlines a few tricks about dealing with the proxie services some spammers use and how to coax them into giving you information about the real sender. Its worth a read.
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Posted on March 16, 2006
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Marketing, Tech, Web
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