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New WordPress theme for Capslock Assassin

July 19, 2008

I’ve given my blog a facelift with a new WordPress theme made from scratch. The old purple theme is no more, replaced by a new blue theme (blue being the internet color for "tech" of course).
I’ve also released a modified version of it (minus some of the ads and plugins) over at Crane Factory. You [...]

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WordPress 2.6 Released

July 16, 2008

Over at Crane Factory I’ve taken a first look at some of the new features of WordPress 2.6 . If you’re considering the upgrade (and you should be) take a read of my post and see the new bits in action.

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CraneFactory.com website launched

May 16, 2008

I’m taking a break from my normal posting about Exchange servers to announce the launch of my new website www.cranefactory.com.

Crane Factory is a website all about web development, WordPress, and blogging. These are hobbies as opposed to my day job which inspires most of the content here. I’ll be posting regularly on how to get the [...]

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5 ways Windows Live Writer improves your Wordpress posting

January 3, 2008

I am posting this using Windows Live Writer, a free application from Microsoft that you can use for writing your blog posts and publishing them to WordPress, Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, and many other blogging platforms.
I hadn’t considered trying Windows Live Writer until I read this post on BloggingTips.com. That day I downloaded the [...]

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Wordpress Upgrade to 2.2 via Fantastico

June 14, 2007

I upgraded my Wordpress websites yesterday to 2.2, using Fantastico to perform the upgrade. In both cases the sites started displaying this character (Â) anywhere in the posts where I had used a double-space (eg at the end of a sentence).
The solution is identified here.
Edit the wp-config.php file.
Comment out the two lines:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
By [...]

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