Posts tagged ‘wordpress’
Caching out
September 9th, 2011 at 11:25 pm by Dr. Drang
I can’t say that it’s happened every day, but more days than not over the past week or two, this site has become unavailable. Sometimes I’ve noticed it myself, sometimes a reader has tweeted me about it. I know it’s not because of traffic, but beyond that I have no idea of the cause. I…
Baked or fresh
April 9th, 2011 at 10:49 pm by Dr. Drang
Much talk recently about “baked” blogs, blogs whose HTML is served from a set of static files rather than generated on the fly. I think it started with this post from Brett Simmons. More recently, Marco Arment has been talking about developing a baked blogging system on the Build & Analyze podcast. And of course,…
Feed me, Seymour
January 31st, 2011 at 8:28 am by Dr. Drang
I love RSS. Not only does it let me zip through lots of stories in a short time, it usually makes the reading experience better by stripping away the non-story clutter found on most web pages and formatting the text with easy-to-read colors and fonts. I try to make the RSS feed of this blog…
GitHub repo of my WordPress theme
December 20th, 2010 at 5:00 pm by Dr. Drang
A bit too much blogging-about-blogging lately, but here’s one more short note. After all the changes associated with adding syntax highlighting to the site, I realized I’d never put the site’s theme under revision control. Seemed like kind of a dangerous way to live, so I made a git repository of a local copy. And…
Syntax highlighting
December 5th, 2010 at 10:14 pm by Dr. Drang
After some persistent comments in the embedded gist article, I’ve decided to try my hand at adding syntax highlighting to the code I post here. I think I have it working, but don’t be surprised if some things look a little weird for a while. Update 12/17/10 Basically, everything in this article has been superseded…
PHP Markdown Extra Math, MathJax, and WordPress
September 27th, 2010 at 10:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Over the weekend, I modified PHP Markdown Extra Math, my fork of Michel Fortin’s PHP-based Markdown processor. PHPMEM can now output either jsMath or MathJax, with the latter being the default format. If, like me, you have a WordPress blog; prefer to compose your posts in Markdown instead of HTML; need to include mathematical equations…
Released from Akismet prison on a technicality
August 11th, 2010 at 8:11 am by Dr. Drang
(For background see this post and this one. Nutshell: Akismet, the spam filter for WordPress blogs, has for weeks been blocking me from commenting on WP blogs other than my own. My attempts to get Akismet to unblock me have failed.) Yesterday morning I found this message from Akismet in my inbox, a response to…
My continuing battle with Akismet
August 9th, 2010 at 9:30 am by Dr. Drang
Here’s an update on my inability to leave comments on most WordPress blogs. Shorter version: I’m still being screwed by Akismet. Longer version… After that last post, Matthew McVickar—who’s becoming a ubiquitous presence here—gave me administrator access to an unused WordPress 3.0 installation on a server he controls. I tried a handful of commenting permutations…
WordPress and Akismet hate me
July 29th, 2010 at 8:39 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been unable to post comments on WordPress blogs, and I don’t know why. Now it’s true that this is a WordPress blog and I can comment here, but that’s an exception—presumably because I’m the administrator. At every other WP blog, my comments go off into some netherworld. I first noticed it a few weeks…
PHP Markdown Extra Math
December 17th, 2009 at 5:29 pm by Dr. Drang
Tuesday’s MathJax post reminded me that I’ve never made public my modifications to PHP Markdown Extra that allow me to easily write equations here on the blog. So I took a virgin copy of Michel Fortin’s latest version of PHP Markdown Extra, applied my modifications, and put the result in a GitHub repository. From the…
