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I’ve just uploaded a new project on Github called delicious_wp: it’s a small Ruby script that simply fetches the items stored in del.icio.us the previous week and creates a blog post with them. You can set up a small cron job to execute this script every week, which is what I’ve done for this blog [...]

Wow, that’s a long title, but it should drive people with this problem right here. If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to 2.8, you might have encountered a nasty error in your Dashboard, which says something about a
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/user/www/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 647
This has been [...]

This is the 600th post in this blog! It all started with this post written in the airport of Buenos Aires, coming back to Switzerland. And the news of the day is that, thanks to Donncha O Caoimh, the new WordPress Super Cache plugin now works with MobilePress, which officially enables a mobile version of [...]

I’ve just installed the excellent wp-super-cache plugin to accelerate things a bit in this blog; today somebody sent one of my pages to reddit and I’ve had more users than usual! – by the way, thanks for coming! :)
Update: I admit, it also has a bit to do with the reading of today’s entry in [...]

I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5 and so far I love it. The only glitch was an easy-to-fix UTF-8 problem but that’s it. Everything’s working.
By the way, I love its new media browser! It makes it easy to find old items I’ve published ages ago, like the image below :)

Update, 2008-03-31: There is a [...]

One of the best learning tools I have found in my career is to take someone else’s code, and to modify it slightly to see what happens, to play with it, and eventually to release that code in this blog, or send it to the original author, fixing it somehow or adding some feature:

I fixed [...]

To celebrate the third anniversary of this blog, I’ve (finally) added the most requested feature ever: e-mail comment notifications! For this I’ve used the Subscribe to Comments WordPress plugin which comes in handy to fulfill this task.
To use it, just click on the checkbox below the comment field, and you’ll receive an e-mail every time [...]

It is amazing to see the quantity of plugins that are available for Wordpress; so far, I’ve found a plugin for every idea that I’ve had for this blog, so these are the links of each one of them:

Categorical links page
List subpages
firstRSS
WP Unformatted

Another worth mentioning is Gengo for localizing (translating) your pages and posts; I [...]

My colleague and friend Jean-Eric Cuendet has just opened his own blog (on Wordpress, of course!), and his first posting is a very interesting description of the new Intel Core chips… a must read!
Welcome to the blogosphere Jean-Eric!

So here we go again. They say that the only constant thing is change.
Back to blogging, but with a few differences. Not only on the screen, but in real life too.
This time, I drop the idea of maintaining several blogs at once, as I did before with those previous blogs. It was much too work [...]