Monthly Archives: May 2008

PHP Gallery Directory Image Reader

I wrote a neat little script to simply read a directory, search for thumbnails, then print a list with links to the larger images. I look for the thumbnails so it doesn’t get images that don’t have small versions.
There are limitations, for example if you put a PDF with ‘.thumb’ in the directory it will [...]

Upgrade to 2.5.1

I upgraded WordPress to 2.5.1. I didn’t feel like doing it manually so I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.
The plugin gave me errors the entire time I was running it but I just kept hitting next and now WP isn’t bugging me to upgrade. Yay!

Open Mesh Networks Round 2

I posted earlier about buying a Meraki Pro Wireless Repeater. So far it’s been doing pretty well sitting in the window. This last week I’ve had over 100 people access it and most of them were not in my cafe. I’d say that’s pretty good for the first router.
Because it’s doing well I decided to [...]

DreamHost is a Nightmare!

On March 5th I purchased an account with DreamHost. I’d heard good things about them and they’re a fairly large name in the world of web hosting. Unfortunately our relationship was not meant to be.
The last two months have been pretty frustrating as DreamHost was constantly having problems and my blog was extremely slow. Even [...]

DemoCamp Edmonton 2

DemoCamp Edmonton (DCE) 2 was tonight. Unfortunately I didn’t get to attend DCE 1. It was a great time with a lot of very interesting people. Most of the software demoed was in the true spirit of DemoCamp but there were a few glitches. All in all I was happy to meet some new people [...]