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Moving to Dreamhost

June 30, 2007 by Chris Metcalf | No comments

I’ve finally come to the conclusion that I just don’t have the time or energy to manage my own dedicated host. I don’t necessarily feel like fighting Apache when I get home after a long day of fighting it at work. And if you’ve noticed, the site has also been down a half dozen times this month.

And?
And?

So I’m moving my domains over to Dreamhost. I’ll be trying them out for the next couple of months (they have a 97 day moneyback guarantee), and if I’m happy, I’ll stick around.

Update: Most of my domains are now moved over to Dreamhost. So far, the experience has been very positive. There were some issues with my initial setup, but support fixed them within 15 minutes of my filing a ticket about it, which is incredible for a Saturday afternoon.

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Site Updates

June 16, 2007 by Chris Metcalf | No comments

Thesis
Thesis

I couldn’t sleep tonight so I made a bunch of improvements to my blog:

  • Switched from using Ultimate Tag Warrior for tags to just using Wordpress’ built in categories as tags. UTW broke with Wordpress 2.2. Now my /tag/* links work properly and things are a lot cleaner.
  • A tag cloud widget in the right-hand column that actually works now.
  • Digg integration
  • Some new plugins in the back-end you won’t see.

Also of note is that I’m posting this from the Blogging Bundle for my new favorite text editor, TextMate. Very cool.

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Hiccup!

January 23, 2007 by chris | No comments

I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.1, so there may be some issues in the meantime. Stick with me…

Update: I’ve fixed the permalink redirection. Thanks for the heads-up Stuart.

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Comments Fixed

December 15, 2006 by chris | No comments

So it seems I broke my Wordpress template awhile ago and didn’t realize how easy it would be to fix it. I’d been putting it off but I fixed it earlier today.

Reflections
Reflections

It turned out I didn’t have a “single.php” file for formatting the display of individual posts, so it was using the main template instead. And that template was missing a single critical tag (that I didn’t know I needed to have) that plugs in the comment form.

So now you really can tell me how much I suck.

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Converting UltimateTagWarrior Tags to Lowercase

August 21, 2006 by chris | No comments

Just installed UltimateTagWarrior? Converted all your categories to tags? Dissappointed that your imported categories are capitalized and capitalized tags look stupid? Fear not! Fire up your favorite MySQL client and use this simple SQL query on your Wordpress database:

UPDATE tags SET tag = LOWER(tag);

I found it handy so maybe somebody else will.

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