Tag Archives: blog

Great blog usability tips

Corinne @ Kiwiology sent me and 500 other kiwi bloggers a fantastic debut newsletter, including many great types on how to do things better around here on the the interweb. And there were plenty that struck me as significant enough to write about.
In particular the things that I should be doing - or do. I’m […]

Drafts tidy up…

I’m just going through deleting and publishing old posts… why not?
Just in between builds and slow searches… I tell you, we should have implemented a delegating façade between the UI and Web services client and between the Web services and the CMS and other system integration libraries… It’s not that we are in a rush […]

Wordpress 2.5 Upgrade

I’m kicking the process off now…
Will it be as easy as I hoped?
Status:

Downloading the latest version from Wordpress. Wordpress 2.5 Tar.Gz, I only get one connection, but it downloaded quickly.
Uploading the Gzip Tar to our FTP server. I created the temp_blog directory and uploaded there.
Logged into our SSH server, and extracted the […]

Wordpress 2.5 Upgrade time

It seems to be time to start the upgrade process. And it will be painful, I’ve got a stack of plugins, some probably will not even be compatible in Wordpress 2.5.
So here is my plan:

Install Wordpress 2.5 in a new directory (i.e. /nzfusion/test_blog/) with a new database
Install the plugins
Export the SQL data from the old […]

Help make Brandon Laughridge - Seth Godin’s intern

I have posted about Seth Godin often enough; discussing the Radiohead online album release last year, why developers need resumes, an amusing commercial, and Seth’s summer internship - which is only available for those close enough to NY to work.
The later, about summer internship, is related to the developer resume post. Seth wasn’t referring to […]