Running My Website: One Year Retrospective
I am happy to announce that this is the one-year anniversary of my website! I wanted to take this opportunity to share my observations and lessons learned since my last retrospective after the first...
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Organizing Information: Using Tags versus Categories
I recently upgraded WordPress - the software that runs this site - to version 2.3. New in this latest version is support for tags. Each post can be associated with any number of keywords or key phrases...
View ArticleVersion Information WordPress Plugin
I have added a new WordPress plugin called Version Information to my Software page. This plugin displays version and configuration information for WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and the web server. A summary...
View ArticleSyntax Highlighting on the Web
I have finally added syntax highlighting to my website using Google Code Prettify. My code examples will now be nicely colored based on syntax. Integrated development environments have been doing this...
View ArticleCelebrating 100 Posts
This is post number 100 on my website! To celebrate I am going to take a look back at my previous posts. My prior posts add up to approximately 70,000 words or 250 pages – that is the size of a book!...
View ArticleWebsite Changes
I have rolled out a few changes to this website over the last few days: The feed for the site now is run through FeedBurner. I switched to FeedBurner primarily because of the better tracking it...
View ArticleJava Code Examples Available
I have added a new project called Java Examples to my Software page. This project contains the source code used as examples in the following articles: Working with Java 5 Annotations Parsing and...
View ArticleResolving PHP No Input File Specified Error for WordPress on IIS
My website was recently almost entirely non-functional for several days. I noticed the problem by the sharp drop in my traffic statistics, and a quick check of the site revealed that most of my pages...
View ArticleSpeaking and Resource Pages
I have added a new speaking page to my website. For the past few years I have been regularly speaking at conferences, user groups and organizations about how to become more effective at software...
View ArticleAnnouncing my Professional Software Development Email List
I am pleased to announce the creation of my Professional Software Development email list for this website. This list will allow you to receive my blog articles (two per month on average) as well as...
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