Blogging - Part 2

Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Bye Bye Pownce

posted on December 3, 2008 in Blogging, Internet, Web 2.0 with 0 Comments

I remember posting about Pownce some time back. The Django powered, Kevin Rose cofounded micro-blogging service. It’s offically closing it’s doors on the 15th of December 2008 as a direct result from a buyout by Six Apart. The blogging platform specialist. Current Pownce users might not be happy about this but somethings sometime just don’t [...]

WordPress 2.6.2 released

posted on September 9, 2008 in Blogging, Open Source, Software, WordPress with 0 Comments

Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 this morning using the WPAU plugin. The release fixes a vulnerability in the password complexity which could allow user passwords to be reset by the attacker who can later use mt_rand() to predict the random password. Upgrade if you allow open registration. Download WordPress 2.6.2

WordPress is_home() conditional tag

posted on August 14, 2008 in Blogging, HowTo, WordPress with 10 Comments

I use the is_home() conditional tag to control when my ads show up. I prefer to only have my ads show up when single posts are viewed. Helps keep my home page looking clean and relevant. Currently, I have my ads setup to show on all pages except for my home page. To get the [...]

Negaraku now Digg style

posted on July 23, 2008 in Blogging, Internet, Malaysia, Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

Negaraku the local news aggregator I posted about some time back has gone through it’s evolution cycle and now emerged as a Digg clone.

WordPress 2.6 Released

posted on July 15, 2008 in Blogging, Software, WordPress with 1 Comment

WordPress 2. 6 (Tyner) is out with some new improvements. 1. Post Revisions :: You get to diff your post changes now. 2. A new Press This! button. :: Directly post from any site you are on. Plus support to automatically detect media files from sites like YouTube and Flickr. 2. Google Gears :: My [...]

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