December 23rd, 2009

The British Dark Ages: a 600-year long recession

From the Financial Times:

As we face an uncertain and worrying New Year, we can at least console ourselves with the fact that we are not living 1,600 years ago, and about to begin the year 410. In this year Rome was sacked, and the empire gave up trying to defend Britain. While this marks the glorious beginnings of "English history", as Anglo-Saxon barbarians began their inexorable conquest of lowland Britain, it was also the start of a recession that puts all recent crises in the shade. Read More…

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December 21st, 2009

WordPress 2.9: three bugs, and how to fix them

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As many of you already know, WP 2.9 has been released over the WE, and… oh bummer:

One major bug was simply dismissed;
A related critical bug was only partially fixed;

Filed under Blog, Highlights, WordPress by Denis on Dec 21st, 2009. 82 Comments.

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December 10th, 2009

Logic bug in php 5.3

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So… here we go again. After the ugly php 5.2 output buffer crashes, we now have the php 5.3 logic bugs:

$foo = 0;
var_dump('foo' == $foo); // true
var_dump($foo == 'foo'); // true
var_dump('foo' === $foo); // false
var_dump($foo === 'foo'); // false

If your scripts are returning completely unexplainable results on php 5.3 platforms, that's one possibility to keep in mind. I initially found it while looking into memcached-related problems.

Filed under Blog, Highlights, WordPress by Denis on Dec 10th, 2009. 5 Comments.

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November 29th, 2009

Semiologic Pro 6.0 released

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Semiologic Pro users with an up to date site will not be seeing it in their dashboard, since I've been modifying the way that upgrades are handled in recent months. But 6.0 has finally been released — fully 10 months after 5.7.1.

Filed under Blog, Highlights, WordPress by Denis on Nov 29th, 2009. 4 Comments.

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The mass plugin upgrader (and mass installer) is up for grabs

I've released Version Checker 2.0 this morning.

This is a huge milestone for Semologic Pro users. Many thanks to all those of you who took the time to test it — in particular during the last round, when I've been fine-tuning the installer.

Filed under Blog, Highlights, WordPress by Denis on Nov 29th, 2009.

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November 25th, 2009

Sign up for free hosting!

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Notice — hub.org, which hosts this site, is doing a special promo on December 1st, starting at 00:00 AST (i.e. 23:00 EST), and giving away 15 starter VPS' for free. (Over-usage charges still apply.)

Filed under Blog, Highlights, WordPress by Denis on Nov 25th, 2009. 1 Comment.

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November 6th, 2009

The new skins are up for grabs

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So… after over three weeks of full time tweaking, re-tweaking, and re-re-tweaking, here comes v.0.9 RC of the Semiologic theme, complete with new skins.

The changes are massive and subtle at the same time. A quick breakdown:

Filed under Blog, Highlights, WordPress by Denis on Nov 6th, 2009. 10 Comments.