Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Applications
The latest release candidate of Joomla 1.5 was released on December 19. The RC4 version was code named Karibu which is a Swahili word meaning nearby, close, close by, or at hand. The developers gave it this name because the stable version of Joomla 1.5 is almost ready to be released.
RC3 users should upgrade to [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: General
I’m amazed by the number of spam comments that get through Akismet’s filters. While it catches most of the spam, I’m still manually deleting comments that were successfully posted each day.
I’ve turned on an option that requires a user to have a previously approved comment before their comment gets posted. This will also require people [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 10 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: How To
I’ve been having a very difficult time trying to migrate data from a Postgres 7 database to Postgres 8. I used the pg_dump utility to export a database, but I got numerous errors when trying to import into a Postgres 8 server.
Most of the errors were invalid UTF-8 sequences that the older Postgres allowed to [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: General
Every once in a while, someone comes to me and asks me to help them get a top search engine ranking with Google. They believe that because I have a couple of web sites that get good traffic and rank well on search engines that I can help them with their site. All I have [...]