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Back to WordPress
After a step away from using wordpress, I am back to using it; old posts will be back soon, as will some new posts. At some point I should also write a post about the technology and software that goes...
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The overkill of Databases
One of the things I love about WordPress is that it is an awesome CMS, I use it to run a number of sites including this one, Loupie.co.uk, UKgoth.info and CamCrew.co.uk It can deal with all the sites,...
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Artisteer for Mac Review, and Why no Version 4?
A fair while ago I picked up Artisteer for Mac, it looked like a useful tool: Artisteer is the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website...
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The Saga of Artisteer 4 for Mac
After my Previous post about Artesteer 4 for mac, there has been two sets of movement, that of the people on the support forum, and the glacial lack of movement of the Official Artisteer team....
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Dealing with TrackBack Spam
Skippy.org.uk is quite an old blog, and while my 365 Blog is not as old; one of the things that is getting old is TrackBack Spam, Both Blogs are hosted on the same WordPress MultiUser / WordPress...
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Leaving WordPress
I have been thinking about moving Skippy.org.uk and my 365 away from WordPress, as WordPress is a bit overpowered for myself as a lone user, and causes my server to run hard when hit with a lot of...
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Union into the light?
As one of the election candidates said they wanted all the union people to have blogs, and such, i am wondering if a copy of Wordpress, and a copy of media wiki would work? WordPress for Blogging, and...
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Task 44 – Complete a 365 day Photo Challenge
I have started setting up 365.skippy.org.uk as part of my Day Zero challenge list; it wont share an RSS feed with this blog so you may want to add http://365.skippy.org.uk/feed/ to follow it; or follow...
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Task 51 – Start my Own Business
On my Day Zero List is to Start my Own Business; I have been toying with the idea of this for a while; and while I do poke Just Vigilantes for a while I have always been running it via a VM with...
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Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2
Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283)...
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Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 3: Lion Server
Following on from Parts one, and two, I now have a mac mini running OS X Lion, and will now be making Lofn into a Fulla replacement. Two small changes need to be made first though to make it less...
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Book 7: Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office
Charles Edge’s “Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office” (published by O’Reilly books) is a good introduction into the setting up and configuring of Mac OS X Lion Server,...
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Book 8: Using OS X Lion Server at Home: A Step by Step Guide
We Got Served’s “Using OS X Lion Server at Home: A Step by Step Guide” by Terry Walsh is a good introduction to OS X Lion Server, I read this one after reading Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac...
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Problems with my 365 :(
For some reason my Project 365 has stopped dealing with emails correctly; so until that is fixed I am going to pause it. I will still poke photos to it sporadically; but they wont be part of my 365. I...
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nbArianrhod is now sold
nbArianrhod boat has now been sold, b0atg1rl and I are now offering soyouwannabuyaboat.com for other peoples uses, If you are interested in utilising So You Wanna Buy A Boat please use the contact form...
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New web project: SoYouWannaBuyABoat.com
Over at Just Vigilantes we have been working on a new project, soyouwannabuyaboat.com, The main domain name is kind of Maffi’s fault, and subsequently was bought for this project back when I was first...
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Biscuit soft launch
A while ago I was asked by the wonderful Lottie if I would work with her on a project. Biscuit is that project. What is Biscuit? Biscuit is a brand new online magazine for the growing demographic of...
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Offline WordPress editors
Most of the sites I work on are biased on the open source project WordPress, examples include Biscuit Mag, Freedom Press, Freedom News, and My Professional site; some sites like Just Vigilantes, and...
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More offline WordPress editors – Blogo
Blogo Logo A while ago I wrote about some offline WordPress editors, recently I managed to get my hands on a copy of Blogo (available via the App Store). My Previouse nice to have list was: Presented...
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Speeding up WordPress using Jetpack Photon – Without Jetpack
CDN What is Photon? this is a question I asked myself when I went looking for the name of the Jetpack app that does Image CDN (Content Delivery Network). Photon according to the WordPress.com...
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SSL on Zpanel / Sentora
ENCRYPT ALL THE THINGS With the passing of ZPanel into the dark, and hopefuly being reborn as Sentora, one of the things that would be a nice to have built in to Sentora would be support for...
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Converting WordPress to HTTPS
I have now got HTTPS set up on skippy.org.uk from a server point of view (following these instructions). I now need to tell Word Press that from now on its to play nice. Settings > General WordPress...
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On the server is a site that wants to be both SSL and non SSL, this is not something that is natavily supported by Sentora/ZPanel, so what we did in SSL on Zpanel / Sentora will not work here (sad...
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WWW is depreciated WWW stands for World Wide Web, which is a term that is seldom used anymore. The use of www in a domain name is redundant and time consuming, browsers automatically prepend all URLs...
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Just Vigilantes use the ZPanel Control Panel, ZPanel is a system that helps in the day to day tasks involved in administration of a typical website on the internet. Its goal is to simplify running web...
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