Monthly Archives: April 2007

Wordpress 2.2 delayed for good reason

As you must surely have noticed, being a developer, this weblog is served by Wordpress. Not only has there been a recent security upgrade to Wordpress, but the planned release of WP 2.2 has been delayed, primarily to allow for a thorough reimplementation of the tagging feature, according to lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
Not to be […]

We will have “real” web pages eventually—but for now, enjoy the blog

I’ve considered changing the title of this “page” to Web Developer’s Notebook–The Blog or something similar, because this really is just the blogging portion of what will eventually be a “real” (read total) website. There will be how-to articles and all that stuff.
Right now we’re missing the pages that show you what tricks I’ve discovered […]

Filezilla will be my primary ftp client for the foreseeable future

If you’re maintaining websites and haven’t already tried Filezilla, download it now!
There are some great commercial products out there, such as WS_FTP Home and WS_FTP Pro. In fact, so far as I know, these are the gold standards for ftp client software. I’ve used them both and highly recommend them to anyone who has $39.95 […]

Problems with newer versions of FireFTP and FireFox 2.x?

I’ve always been very happy with FireFTP, the ftp and website-management software that installs as an extension to Firefox. It’s completely intuitive, does what I need to do, and works as advertised.
Until recently.
I don’t know if the problem is that my Firefox installation has become bloated with all the new stuff I’ve downloaded for clipping […]

Welcome to Web Developer’s Notebook

Life, John Lennon said, is what happens while you’re making plans.
Well, I’ve been planning a website (Techismo) and have been working on it in various capacities for over a year now. I’ve done design work—including coding the usual infuriating hacks and workarounds, because I just cannot accept that it’s gonna look different in IE and […]