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WordPress Cache Woes and other Crap

POSTED Fri May.06.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Blogging TAGGED

Now I discover that Internet Explorer users (you know, what most of the world uses) has problems with some of pages here. For one thing, the email page doesn’t work on IE because of some issue with the caching plugin. And now I find that there’s ANOTHER issue with comment submission on IE that I [...]

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My Dumb PHP Counter Script

POSTED Tue May.03.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED

Saving this code snippet so I don’t have to look this up again. Move along! Nothing to see!

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WordPress Advanced Cache Woes

POSTED Sun May.01.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED

I’ve been using that new Caching Plugin by Ricardo Galli since April 14th. Which means that my email contact form has been broken since then. Sigh. The WordPress 1.5 system has a new hook that allows a caching system to be inserted. It’s not a simple plugin that you activate/deactivate. It works pretty well on [...]

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WordPress Memory Usage

POSTED Thu Apr.14.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Blogging TAGGED

I have been noticing intermittent Internal Server Error messages occuring with WordPress for the past several weeks, and inquired today with my ISP, Pair Networks, about the problem. Apparently, my blog is exceeding the allowed memory allocation for scripts allowed to run on their server. In other words, I’m being a memory hog. The culprit? [...]

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Dealing with Bandwidth Stealing

POSTED Tue Apr.12.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED

Recently I noted some suspicious activity: some images were being retrieved from my web server without a corresponding page view. That usually means someone is stealing my bandwidth. How does it work? Say someone has decided they like a particular image on my site, so they “link it” to some other website elsewhere. This means [...]

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The Curse of HTML Email

POSTED Tue Apr.05.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED

:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/ Today I am researching HTML Email for a client newsletter. Out of the blue, I got another call from a friend asking about the very same thing. With the advent of Spring comes the blossoming of a thousand e-marketing initiatives! Anyway, it seems like this should be straightforward cut-and-paste job, but there are several [...]

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Header Image Slideshow

POSTED Fri Mar.04.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED

I hacked in some code that allows you to click the main header image to see the next one in the sequence. This is more convenient, I think. I set a “cookie” that holds the current image number, and your browser will remember it for 30 days. Sordid technical details follow!

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