At some point in the last week, Verizon has listed all of its residential IP address with spamhaus.org in their Policy Block List. This means that any server running at a residence can no longer send out email from an internal SMTP server. Like say… the FreeBSD Server in my basement that hosts this blog. I used [...]

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I’m an ex-Windows user who works primarily on a Mac these days. I recently needed to go back to my Windows PC and debug javascript from IE7, it is bizarre how hard it is to get to actual useful debugging information. You are supposed to dive down through Internet Options -> Advanced and then set Disable Script [...]

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Ugh, the popupper plugin that I wrote already got bug reports from IE7 users. I work on my laptop and tested it on Safari, Camino, and Firefox. Unfortunately, I never checked out IE7. It turns out that some HTML/Javascript comments that work on Safari/Camino/Firefox don’t work on IE7.
My plugin was creating HTML that looked like:

<script type=’text/javascript’>//<!–
 …
//–!></script>

… this does not work [...]

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I’ve just finished writing a new plugin for Wordpress. It allows you create popups, like the ones highlighted in blue in the last sentence. Hopefully, some bloggers out there pick it up and try it out. You can download it from the official wordpress.org page here.

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The wordpress plugin to insert popups into posts continues. It is slow going, to say the least. I’m brushing up on my PHP, SQL, Javascript, HTML/DHTML, and CSS. Any little bell or whistle I want to add currently takes about a day to figure out just because I’m rusty on all this stuff.
Currently, it correctly [...]

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My attempts to build a plugin for popping up images when you mouseover a word in a post has dragged me down into the maze of wordpress plugins. I realized shortly after starting that what I’m trying to do essentially is a security violation in wordpress. I was trying to put javascript to popup images, [...]

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Here’s one way to spend hours and hours: customizing your blog.
I added an about page, a sitemap, an archive page, avatars, and made the picture of the day image actually keep the same picture for a whole day.
Basically this was a refresher on PHP. And since I changed the permalink structure for the site to get [...]

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