Category Archives: open source

How to install WordPress MU using SVN

I had to get my head around this for WP standard work recently, and thought I would combine it with some WP-MU experimentation.
Current release (at time of writing) WP-MU 2.6.5
Page on WP Codex on setting up WP with Subversion … Continue reading

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Give me your favourite quotes

I have been using a great little WordPress plug-in called ‘Quotes Collection‘ on this blog – it’s great for grabbing those quotes you see popping up over the web and adding them to your blog. It is my favourite aspect … Continue reading

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Firefox 3.0.1 location url bar autocomplete broken (and rss live feed bookmarks)

My favourite web browser – Mozilla’s Firefox, has recently begun to cause consternation – only on my work PC. On the laptop it is fine. There are a gazillion blog/forum posts complaining about the new functionality of said URL bar, … Continue reading

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Why I think Open-Source Software is key to human evolution…

Have we stopped evolving? Only time will tell of course… but I don’t think so – I think we have started our own evolutionary track – call it ‘technology’. It remains to be seen whether we will continue to evolve … Continue reading

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