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 the database script, other more serious problems came out. It appears that … [Read more...]
Introducing techbusiness.com.au
September 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I am happy to announce that we have successfully re-opened techbusiness.com.au over the weekend. We have also created its own Twitter account and do some tests on how to build up your list of friends and followers. techbusiness has been inactive for sometime. We opened it last December at the height of the current financial crisis, but due to other more pressing tasks, updating of techbusiness was not regular. Then sometime last month, I … [Read more...]
Why now is the time to upgrade your WordPress install
September 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last month, we wrote Get ready now for WordPress 2.9 and beyond. If you haven't upgraded yet, then this article from the official WordPress blog site should serve another warning. The article is titled How to Keep WordPress Secure which I thought is very mildly titled considering its content. The article reported: Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before … [Read more...]
A new design for a new feature
September 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you have been following me on this site, you'll notice that what you are seeing now may be the third or fourth looks we have had since I started this blog last December. That would mean, each design lasted only three or four months. Not that there was something wrong with the old ones. The most recent theme (see screenshot for sample page) ~ with its excellent XHTML validation ~ was one of the best themes we have used, in fact. We have not … [Read more...]
Just another blog site on business?
August 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Did you notice that sometimes I post an entry here on topics that may appear out of place in this site? Like postings on website valuation? Or, foreign currencies? If you did, some of our friends also pointed that out, and even offered to contribute business articles. That's great. Thanks. I can not promise anything, but we'll have a look at our inventory of articles to see if we can move some of them to a business-related site. … [Read more...]
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