So it’s been a while. And when I say a while, it looks like my last post was in 2010. That’s pretty pathetic.
I’ve had a very eventful couple of years. But I have really missed my home here at orangesplotch. It’s time to get back in the saddle and ride off into the sunrise. Yes, that’s sunrise, because today is a new day. Welcome back! I’ve missed you all.
The summer is just about over and I don’t have any javascript tutorials to show for it. That isn’t to say I haven’t been busy working on them, though. In fact, I’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to upgrade this whole site. As usual it’s taking much longer than I intended [...]
Watch out for vanishing feeds. My Feedburner blog feed was returning a 404 File Not Found error when I tried accessing it through PHP, but showed up fine in my browser. It took a while to figure out what was going on. If anyone else is having the same problem, hopefully this article will help.
So for the past month-ish I’ve been trying out a little experiment. I added an extra ad block to my articles page to see if I suddenly saw a dramatic increase in advertising revenue on the site. And here we are a month later.
Due to recent events (i.e. mockery), I’ll be redesigning the look of this, here site.
I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.5. Lots of new features, a cleaner interface, enhanced media options. So what do I think of it all? Ya, I’m still a WordPress fanboy at heart.
Measuring and tracking performance is a great way to keep on top of your site. Here is one way to measure the performance of a blog using information you, the blog author, have the ability to control — how frequently it is updated.
More lame excuses about why I haven’t updated the blog lately. As a bonus, I’ve included a few empty promises as well.