Category Archives: Development

WordPress, DreamHost, UTF-8 encoding and international characters

If you work on any WordPress blogs/sites that are written in any language that has accented characters and happen to be on DreamHost, you have probably noticed character encoding problems. For instance, the new auto-save feature in WordPress or the Ajax categories add field in the category list, can display improperly encoded characters.
If you [...]

Posted 10 March 2007 † Ethan § Web ‡ Comments (3) °

Basecamp saved my life. really.

In case you haven’t seen it, Basecamp is a website for project management, but more to the point, it is quite possibly the best collaborative organizational tool ever. Create a project, add the people involved and then share to-do lists, milestones/goals, post messages with files and write on virtual whiteboards, all while assigning everything [...]

Posted 11 March 2006 † Ethan § Business § Lifehacks § News § Technology § Web ‡ Comments (0) °

WordPress Comment Spam Blocking

Elliott Back’s amazing WordPress plugin, Hashcash 2.3, that effectively puts an end to automated Comment spam… Thanks again Elliott!

Posted 29 July 2005 † Ethan § Web ‡ Comments (0) °

Word Press Ping URL List

Elliott Back’s exhaustive list of URLs for automatic Pinging from WordPress. Thanks Elliott!

Posted 29 July 2005 † Ethan § Web ‡ Comments (0) °