Thesis Theme 1.2 for WordPress

October 20, 2008

The WordPress Thesis theme is now at version 1.2 and there are a few changes as well as a bit of an overhaul in the plumbing – the guts of the theme. While upgrading, if you follow the instructions by renaming your current thesis theme folder to something like thesis-old and then copy over the [...]

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Learning Ruby On Rails

October 16, 2008

What is Ruby on Rails?  Ruby is a programming language and Rails is a framework.  What the heck’s a framework?  Well you’ll find it through the resources listed below. At the Ruby Programming Language website they describe Ruby on Rails as: A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It [...]

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55 Twitter Tots – Part Deux

October 14, 2008

It’s been a while since I listed 55 Twitter Tots.  So here’s another list of 55 Twitter Tots for your tasting. Tweet Alerts – TweetBeep.com – Subscribe to a keyword and you’ll be emailed a list of tweets with that keyword. Hmmm… Another way to do keyword research possibly? Cool TwitterCounter – Find out how [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Cha-Cha-Changes

October 9, 2008

Just a quick post to show the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard from my article WordPress 2.7 – Hemorrhage Dashboard and the updated Dashboard (see below).  We’ll see how many time things change between now and their release date of November 10, 2008. October 5, 2008: October 8, 2008: More changes to come.  Woo Hoo!!  Instead of [...]

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Process Explorer

October 8, 2008

Recently I wanted to start Symantec’s pcAnywhere 12.1 on Windows XP and when I started it none of the icons for remote clients were showing. So I closed pcAnywhere and restarted the program. It didn’t restart. Well, instead of spending a bunch of time trying to figure it out or contacting Symantec I decided to [...]

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WordPress 2.7 – Hemorrhage Dashboard

October 5, 2008

In this article I’ll be providing a screen shot and short video that covers the WordPress 2.7 – Hemorrhage version.  We’ve found out at the WordPress 2.7 Roadmap page that 2.7 will be released (cross your fingers – for some folks anyway) on Novemeber 10, 2008.  So for me, I like keeping on top of [...]

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Adervtising With The Thesis Theme

September 26, 2008

I’m using the Thesis theme for this blog and decided to provide advertising in the big box on the upper right-hand side of this page.  The Thesis theme has a few custom keys that you can use by providing values to those keys in your blog posts.  Why would you want to do this?  Good [...]

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Lijit – How To Channel Surf Your Own Content

September 19, 2008

While reading various blogs this past week I’ve noticed a new search mechanism with the text Lijit. Lijit is a way to search your blog’s content and more. In their own words: Lijit is a service that searches your blog, bookmarks, blogroll and more, all from one little box. In return, we provide stats that [...]

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How To Run Adobe Air Applications On Ubuntu Linux

September 18, 2008

Click here to jump to the directions and skip the following mumbo jumbo. I made An Introduction to Ubuntu 8.04 video to show people the similarities between Ubuntu and Windows. However, when we start digging into something new, like Ubuntu can be for some folks, it becomes more and more difficult as we try to [...]

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QuickPress Quick Post

September 11, 2008

In the latest version of WordPress there is a QuickPress panel on the WordPress Dashboard.  It includes Title, Post, and Tags for quick posting.  I’d like to design short posts to display differently on my front/home page to better distinguish a short post and a long post something like Adii does – http://www.adii.co.za/.  What do [...]

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