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Setting up wordpress to update itself
Wordpress’s auto update feature is incredibly handy.
However, not every webhost automatically has accounts setup to allow for this, and if click the promising looking auto-upgrade icon, you’ll often be face with this screen here:
You get this screen when the folder containing wordpress belongs to the user, instead of the apache daemon; this is normally either [...]
Fixing old gits
How to stop git whining too much when you commit to an old repo.
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My latest reason for wanting to scoop IE7’s eyes out with a sharpened spoon.
When we're developing for the web, adapting for Interet Explorer is an unavoidable pain that we have to deal with.
But it's rare to find a problem that rears its ugly head in Internet Explorer 7, but not its much maligned predecessor Internet Explorer 6. We're trained by experience to expect IE7 to know better, albeit [...]
Setting environments with Rails: how Rake and Capistrano differ
Annoyingly, Capistrano and Rake do similar jobs, and have similar syntax, but have different ways of declaring the environment they should be working in. Her