Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Wordpress has released it's next semi-major release with version 3.2.
You can read the official announcement here
Significant in this release is the breaking away of support for old technologies including older versions of MySQL, PHP and even old IE6.
This part has me really excited (especially the IE6 part) as backwards compatibility ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
I frequently get asked by my clients (and prospective ones) about wanting to update their website.
I had a rant about this a while back, where a journalist accused web designers of ripping their clients off if they didn't provide the ability to update the site themselves.
I stand by my comments ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Well I suppose it had to happen.
It was all going so well, good memory management, it was fast and had great addons. It was a no brainer to use Firefox as my default browser.
Version 3 was better than Version 2, this is how software evolution was supposed to be.
And the ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I have used a number of Antivirus programs over the years. I was a big fan of Mcafee back in the DOS days, moved onto Nortons when it came with my PC (Threw it away when it got too bloated). Tried a number of others and then settled on AVG.
AVG ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Kick it to the Kerb?That would be nice, as most web designers have come unstuck when a nice design fails spectacularly in IE6.But unfortunately, there are still lots of people (over 30% in most cases) that are still using it, that is too large a number to upset with messages ...
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