Archive

Listed are the posts for February 2008.

Stepping into the Minefield

Feb 29

On a bout of spontaneity, I just felt like getting that little bit more involved in Firefox development, so I decided to drop use of Firefox 3 beta and head into the Minefield. For the clueless, these are nightly builds that update once almost every night (hence nightly), but are mostly unstable or something. But [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

phpBB 2.0.23 released

Feb 19

phpBB 2.0.23 has been released. It isn’t end-of-life for phpBB2 yet, you know. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 3 released!

Feb 13

Firefox 3 beta 3 now available for download. As always until Firefox 3 goes gold, don’t download and use this unless you’re here to test. I’m being ironic by not listening to myself, but hey I want to test anyway
The new icons that were discussed by Alex Faaborg have been incorporated into beta [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

I can’t wait for 2.5

Ryan Boren has just posted about the WordPress 2.5 roadmap and linked to the WordPress Development Updates Prologue-style blog at WordPress.com. This blog is here to track progress of development of WordPress 2.5. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

WordPress 2.3.3 released

Feb 5

Another urgent security release has been rolled out to everyone! WordPress 2.3.3 fixes a critical fault in the XML-RPC implementation for blogs with registration on (read more in the link to the dev blog above). BoltPress has it disabled but nevertheless I’m obviously going to upgrade since it’s always good to stay up to date [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

1000 spam comments

Feb 4

Even when my blog is inactive, spammers still loiter around my posts and rain spam on them every so many hours or days. Basically Akismet caught its first thousandth spam comment for BoltPress. Is this really an achievement worth bragging about? Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Windows Live Writer paging WordPress.com…

Feb 3

I just saw something interesting at my WordPress.com dashboard… click to enlarge.

This post is a test post inserted into your WordPress blog by Windows Live Writer. While you’re setting up your blog for Windows Live Writer to work with it, it’ll ask you to optionally allow it to sent a test post, detect what your [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

CodeIgniter 1.6.0 finally released

Feb 1

CodeIgniter 1.6.0 has finally been released! Kudos, EllisLab!
Here are some of the more nifty features included in this new release:

A Database Forge class: database agnostic table and field manipulation
A revised Session Class with “flash variables” and additional security
An extensible Model Class with auto-loadable Models

See the news article and ChangeLog for details. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »