The harvest of an evening in a hotel with Web Designer magazine

Updated to WordPress 2.8

I just updated to the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8, i.e. Baker. Here’s a nice overview of the latest additions. One of the new features I really like is the ability to load JavaScript in the footer of your theme.

So many rich text editors out there, but which one to choose?

There are loads of rich text editors out there. The question is which one to choose? This article might help make you decide.

Collecting dust

Everything collects dust. Including your CSS. Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox add-on that helps finding your unused CCS Selectors in style sheets. Handy when optimizing and debugging.

Chrome Experiments

To show us what can be done with Javascript (and Chrome) Google has launched Chrome Experiments. A collection of unusual experiments that also work in other (good) browsers.

Fiddling around with redirects

On my dev server I’ve been moving things around a lot, meaning that some of my pages are simply not where they used to be. Wanting to preserve the old URLs, so people or search engines won’t get 404 File Not Found errors, I stumbled upon a great article by Steven Hargrove. This article explains quite well how to go about doing so, with the use of just about any language you can think of.

Posts

It might seem a little quiet here of late, but that’s hardly the case. I’ve decided to keep more personal stuff private. Instead of protecting entries with a password I decided to look into other solutions. Anything of which I feel shouldn’t be shared with the general public is available only to friends. It’s a plugin I found via one of the blogs I visit quite regularly. I’ll be tinkering with it a little bit before I allow people to register.

Welcome to Gravatar 2.0!

Gravatar is finally back online. And from the looks of things it’s definitely worth the 2.0.