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Random Things around the Net Week of 02/14/2009

Yammer iPhone app goes Open Source – Yammer is a kind of Twitter clone, but for your company. I believe it is made by the same people that created Geni.com. Pretty cool that it is open source, just another way to get a good idea on how to build iPhone apps. WordPress has their app [...]

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WordPress Export

WordPress Export. There is a menu item in WP that lest you export out to an XML file, they call it “eXtended RSS or WXR”. The options is under Manage->Export. Well you should use this to keep a half way decent back up of your blog, but if you want to transfer to another blog [...]

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Obligatory Post From iPhone

Post from wordpress app on iPhone. It’s open source I think. I should raise pocketblogger from the dead and merge it with this or something. This could be cool for reporting news real time, but for now here is good old Winston

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 this evening. Worked like a charm. Seems like everything is working fine. I really like the “automatic” plugin upgrades!! Technorati Tags: WordPress,2.5,Upgrade,Blogging

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Amazon S3 and WordPress Video Site – 2 Hour Project – What A Debacle

About a month ago, I wanted to test using Amazon’s S3 service, for storage. I couldn’t think of any quick, easy projects to use it for, then it hit me, how about video/photos? I decided to see how long it would take for me to make a video site, with comments, views, etc, on a [...]

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Windows Live Writer – API Open (not really) – I Want To Download Existing Posts

So, I am sitting here scratching my head again. I use Windows Live Writer (WLW) to post to my blog. I like it, it rocks. There is a plugin architecture, which is cool, and some other API’s for doing things.

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WordPress on IIS 6.0, Windows 2003 – Some Tweaks (URL Rewrite and SMTP)

OK so I lied. Everything wasn’t working after I set up my WordPress blog on IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003. Two things were broke: SMTP (email from the blog) and URL Rewrites/Permalinks. SMTP worked through IIS just fine, I could telnet and send email out, but from WordPress, it was getting a 501 error. From [...]

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Server Move: Hosting My Own Site(s)

Well, I have been on HostMySite for a few years now, and I just wasn’t liking it. I didn’t have control, and couldn’t do everything I wanted to. Last week I signed up with ServerBeach and I have my own dedicated server. I am running Windows 2003, IIS, SQL, MySQL, PHP, etc. I changed for [...]

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WordPress 2.3.3, PHP, Windows Live Writer, Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted

After I updated to WordPress 2.3.3, I was seeing some pages in my admin screens getting errors like this: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted WTF? So, pages still worked though. I cleaned out everything I wasn’t using (themes, plugins, etc) in my WordPress directories, still getting it. So researched a little, had to [...]

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Upgrade Your WordPress Installation – ASAP!

There have been a few security related fixes for WordPress released. The are currently on 2.2.3 http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/ I use HostMySite.com for my hosting and they won’t upgrade your WordPress installation for you, so you need to do it yourself. Pretty simple, just follow the directions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress I backed up my WordPress instance, then disabled [...]

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