Archive for 2007

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By Brett Bumeter

I mentioned yesterday that WordPress had issued a new upgrade and they were strongly recommending that people should Upgrade their WordPress Software to 2.3.2 Now.  I was very happy to see that after I updated one of my sites a publishing bug went away completely!

I had repeatedly run into an error on one of my sites that enabled women to write reviews about sexy boots and other skimpy products.  The error manifested in several nasty ways:

  • Publishing with WindowsLiveWriter would publish, but would always generate an error and WLW would not be able to save a link to...

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By Brett Bumeter

Here is a tip for blogger bloggers. 

When you have a blogger template, the defaults often times come with images in the template that are hosted on blogblog.com or some other site provided by Google or the maker of the template.  When you use these images, you are missing out on an opportunity to provide one of your own sites some incoming link action on every page.

Copy those images down, and post them up onto your own folder on a domain that you own.  Then update the code location url in the template to point to your domain where the...

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By Brett Bumeter

This evening I finally broke down and learned how to compare text in code.  This is actually something that I have meant to do for a long period of time, but only got around to it tonight when things became critical and absolutely necessary.

The program I’m using is WinMerge and is supposed to plugin to Dreamweaver 8, which is what I am going to attempt to accomplish next.

Note to self.  It’s just been one of those kind of days.  Database crashed, code went buggy on a different site, my micro sd card died for no apparent...

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By Brett Bumeter

In this article I have mapped out a number of YouTube Video Download tools in MindManager and then snapped them into a swf file so that the map parts are clickable. I found the original list that I used for my mindmap source over at Mashable.

I then uploaded the swf file to the domain here and then put the basic code into this blog article using WindowsLiveWriter.

Next I’m hoping to find a WindowsLiveWriter Plugin that enables me to attach and upload swf files in one shot.  Here I simply wanted to attempt a proof of concept one...

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By Brett Bumeter

For a year or so now, I have been on again off again playing a really basic game called Exodus 3000.  There’s really nothing terribly spectacular about the game.  Its graphically about as complex as Tank was on Atari but not exactly as complex as HDMI switches.  Strategically its about as demanding as playing the old board game Stratego, but it sucks me in for 10-20 minutes from time to time anyway.

They profess to pay their players for their winnings in real money, but I have never made anything myself.  The in game winnings are...

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By Brett Bumeter

Sometimes website owners will incorrectly be associated and reported as a spammer.  (I’m talking email spam here.)

Unfortunately it is all to easy for an email spammer to simply code your email address into the header of an email, even though they are actually sending the email from some other email account and then your email account gets associated with grand titles like term life insurance quotes or the latest Brittany Spears viral image teaser of the day or sometimes it is used in PayPal or Ebay phishing emails.

I’m sure you have probably seen an email that appears to...

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By Brett Bumeter

That is the message coming from WordPress.org.  The former version of WordPress, version 2.3.2, had some serious security issues that are supposedly addressed in 2.3.2.

Here is the note from the WordPress Development team

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.

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By Brett Bumeter

In my last short article I mentioned a free program available from sourceforge.net that will enable you to compare to files of code (or any text file for that matter).

I forgot to mention how and where to set that up in Dreamweaver so that you can rapidly compare an old version of a file with a new version of a file.

Simply go to  Menu  Edit>Preferences

Then select File Compare

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Then simply pick the files exe, which is likely to be located somewhere in your Program Files folder.

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By Brett Bumeter

It is ironic that Google one of the largest providers of blogging software is unfriendly to bloggers.  Google suffers the common bloggers of the world as a means to an end for serving up more Google Adword/Adsense ads across the internet.  They privately also use the writing of bloggers to help index the internet for their search engine.

However, Google looks at bloggers like a cruel child looks at an ant farm.  Casually observing the coming and going of the ants, and every now and then toying with the ants by channeling some heat from the sun through a...

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By Brett Bumeter

Watching a CNN news clip today, inspired me to look up Katherine Heigl on the internet and that led me to an interview with her and Seth Rogen about their movie Knocked Up.  After watching the interview I sensed a bit of a personal connection (for no apparent reason) but that made me want to see the movie.

Now, I had previously thought to myself...

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