We recently upgraded the MySql installation in our emanilapoetry website which is using WordPress 2.8+ install. The upgrade somehow caused a mismatch in the character sets between WordPress and the database tables, the former using a default character set “utf8″ and the latter using “latin1.”
When our technical people tried using WordPress’ default character set in [...]
When you have been immersed in something for many years, something that you practically breathed in and out almost every day, you begin to think that everyone knows exactly the same thing as you do.
This is what I realised when in the course of email discussion groups, someone was boasting that he was able to [...]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics today released population estimates which showed large population growth occurring in outer suburbs in the 12 months to 30 June 2008.
The largest increases according to ABS occurred in the outer-suburban areas of Wyndham in Victoria which increased by 8,900 with Wanneroo in Western Australia and Blacktown in New South [...]
With more than a dozen of operational and experimental websites in our group, how do we manage to upgrade the websites’ designs?
These days when most of our websites are on the WordPress platform, we avail of themes that are available in the market. Some are premium themes (meaning we paid for the license to use [...]