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New site design is live (also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress – 2.5)
In preparation for upgrading a whole mess of sites to using the latest version of WordPress I decided it was time to finally upgrade my own site and to implement the new design I’d been working on for a while (for over a year now). Check it out: www.gabrielserafini.com Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/04/01/new-site-design-is-live-also-upgraded-to-the-latest-version-of-wordpress-25/
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How to fix PEAR installation of XML_RSS / XML_Tree invalid package.xml file problem
As part of getting an upgraded server set up and transferring sites from the older server, I had to re-install PEAR XML_RSS. One of its dependencies is XML_Tree. Normally, this command should have worked with no problems: pear install XML_RSS It downloaded XML_RSS just fine, but then choked on XML_Tree, which was a required dependency.…
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Google Chart API is very cool
Google’s new Charts API is very cool. I am interested to see how we might possibly use that with Collabofit to do additional charting. Here’s the code used to generate that graph above: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart? cht=lc &chs=500×300 &chd=s:GabrielSerafini2007 &chtt=’Gabriel%20Serafini%202007’%20Using%20the%20New%20Google%20Charts%20API &chxt=x,y &chxl=0:|1976|1986|1996|2007|1:||Cool||Amazing||Awesome Very simple, clean, elegant and neat. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/12/06/google-chart-api-is-very-cool/
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New car insurance site is now up
I’ve had this domain name for a while and finally built something on it. The idea is to figure out good ways to save money on car insurance. We have USAA for ours, which makes it nice because it is a pretty good rate. Some people need extra help, though, to find the best prices.…
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WP-Cache 2.0 – useful for surviving the digg/reddit effect for your WordPress blog
Found this useful plugin from this site while working on a site that was in the middle of getting dugg/reddited: WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly…
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Some excellent WordPress plugins I found recently – Breadcrumbs and better Links page management
I’m working on a new site relating to Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act compliance (it will replace the useless site that is currently up at grammleachblileyact.com) and was looking for breadcrumb functionality and a better way to manage outputting links from the Blogroll on the links.php page. I had searched for a good WordPress breadcrumbs plugin a while…
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RSS2.com is fast again, thanks to a new and improved SQL database schema
For quite a while, RSS2.com has been slow. Ever since it hit, oh, around 1.4 million items in its database (now up over 2 million) the queries that were responsible for building the home page view had gotten slower and slower. The old design The problem was one of normalization, and the desire to not…
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A List Apart: Articles: Conflicting Absolute Positions
Nice article on ALA about how to create a layout using almost pure CSS where there is a fixed-width sidebar and a dynamically resizing right-hand main content area without using Javascript to dynamically resize the page. All right, class. Using CSS, kindly produce a liquid layout that contains a fixed-width, scrolling side panel and a…
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Web Devout
Some excellent articles here about good web building practices. Welcome to Web Devout! This site is aimed at promoting the health of the Web by providing web developers and the public with the knowledge and tools needed to help the Web move forward. Check it out: Web Devout Thanks for the pointer, Ben. Link to…
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Home – Find Car Wallpapers, Car Desktops and Car Pictures at FastWallpapers.com
Bruce and I just finished getting the template finished for the new FastWallpapers.com site. Check it out: Home – Find Car Wallpapers, Car Desktops and Car Pictures at FastWallpapers.com Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/06/07/home-find-car-wallpapers-car-desktops-and-car-pictures-at-fastwallpaperscom/