I have just upgraded this blog to the latest version of Wordpress (version 2.6). There are a couple useful features introduced in this release. A full list can be found here.
The 2 most important features are integration with Google Gears and Theme Preview. Theme Preview is actually a big one for me, because before now, you really had to just activate a theme and hope that it would work. That has changed nown and you can now preview your new theme before your audience does.
Integration with Gears, I beleive, is minimal at the moment, as it just saves a local copy of all the JS and CSS files used and nothing more, but its a very good first step and I am sure future versions will have extended integration.
Update: I actually forgot to write about another very important feature. 2.6 has now got post revisions. Thats very useful, everytime I hit Save, it maintains a separate version of the post. Would be very handy when I make mistakes while writing and can easily switch back to last known good versions.
Well, during the installation, I did run into one little issue. I used the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin to do the upgrade and it kinda broke just before it was to re-activate my plugins. For some reason, the file wp-load.php wasnt copied in the whole process. I did check my permissions and they were all fine.
I simply had to download the installation manually and extract wp-load.php and put it in the right location on the server. That did the trick. I was back up after that. Apart from that, a pretty neat upgrade! I am still a happy Wordpress user!
Yes, thats the 100th post on my blog. It took me 7 months to get to 100 posts, which is not too bad I think. I have not been able to write posts in the past few weeks as compared to before, mainly because my new contract keeps me very busy and by the time I get home, I am completely knackered and there is just no time and energy for blogging. However, I still enjoy reading others’ blog posts.
I do hope to be more active at blogging though as I firmly beleive that when you write your thoughts out, you improve your own thought process because thats actually when you think how you could have done it better (atleast I do that) .
Thanks to all the readers who took the time to read my blogs and I hope to have the learning process going on .
Happy coding!
I use WordPress as my blogging software and I just read the news that WordPress 2.5 has been released. I have been following some posts about this and there has been a lot of talk about this release. This is a major release with features like multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.
So, I just went ahead and did an upgrade. My previous version was 2.3.2 . The upgrade went smoothly apart from the fact that one of my plugins named “Gregarious” stopped working after the upgrade. This plugin was handling the social bookmarking icons on the site including Digg and others. Not a big problem, I can try to fix this later, but the new version does look good indeed. For anyone currently on WordPress, its definitely worth upgrading.
Well, its kinda annoying. My blog has been online for about 6 months now and it was only last week that the number of spam comments I receive, crossed 1000. But I was checking the spam comments today and I was surprised to see that total number of spam comments caught has gone up to 2012. Well, thats over 1000 spams in a week!
Thanks a lot to Akismet for doing all the hard work of catching and deleting spam silently and effectively.
However, one note to spammers, if you are smart enough to get into the system by breaking the captcha or by what ever other ways, you should be smart enough to “not” continue spamming after finding out that your comments get deleted automatically.
ColdFusion 8 has been nominated for the Great Indian Developer Awards 2008. Now, that is great news. It’s always good to see CF getting the exposure and acknowledgement it deserves.
I am curious to see what the results of this would be, due on the 24th of March, 2008. Apart from the “Web Development - Design, development, deployment” category, under which ColdFusion 8 is nominated, I am particulary interested in another category which is “Top Ambassador - Ambassador for India’s IT Ecosystem”. The nominations for this category include India’s top IT software houses, some of which have really changed the way the world looks at India’s IT industry as it stands today.
I have just done my votes, its time you do yours!
There is an interesting graphical representation of how a blog post penetrates the web before it finally gets to the readers.
I do beleive that aggregators are really doing a great job in spreading the word but lately I am expereincing a lot of spam as well. I think spam is something you can just cure but not prevent.
Ohloh, a company that ranks the nation’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developers to track and rank their own teams. What they do is assign something calle KudoRank to each coder based on the activity done by that coder. Because these are all open source projects, the number of lines of code by each developer can be counted and thats how the KudoRank comes up (its a number between 1 and 10).
I just read about this and I find it quite an interesting thing to do. More info here .
Its interesting how they count the number of lines of code.
I have applied a new theme to my blog. My original theme was black and red so I decided to use black and red for this one as well. This one gives me more space on the sidebar to put more content. If anyone finds any issues, please let me know, as I am still in the process of testing this one myself.
I was curious to find out how other people write posts on their blogs. I assume its mostly via the web admin interface or via a secure email address which posts to the blog. This is what I used to do as well. However, recently, I found out about Windows Live Writer, which, to be honest, is really cool. It is a desktop tool that allows you to write offline posts, preview them using your blog’s stylesheets and then post them when you are ready. It is packed with a lot other features. I think this is really useful as the editors in a webpage are always a bit dodgy when you write long posts. The best part is , it supports most of the blog softwares out there, including Wordpress which I use. This piece of software from Microsoft does look really neat.
I know, most people in the CF community use blogCFC, which according to me is a great piece of software, but I just didnt happen to use it when I started blogging. I just installed Wordpress to start looking into it and as I started blogging more and more, I didnt get a chance to change my blog software. Unfortunately, Windows Live writer does not support blogCFC officially, but my gut feeling is, because it uses XMlRPC to post to the blog, it might be worth it to try to post to blogCFC using this.
By the way, I am writing this post from within Windows Live Writer.