Category Archives: Blogging

Fully Baking this Blog

Posted on March 17, 2011 by luis

Brent makes a plea for “fully baking your blog.” Another way to put it in the Mac community is to make sure your website can stand up to being “Fireballed” (verb) – when John Gruber links to your post and … Continue reading →

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Blog Reboot

Posted on August 6, 2010 by luis

Twitter – that’s one word for where a lot of my writing energy has gone.  It’s such an easy way to get out a few words and there’s no pressure to be perfect. Then again the pressure to be perfect … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned: Blank page of death after upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1.

Posted on May 21, 2009 by luis

I had the blank page of death problem when logging in to my blog after upgrading to 2.7.1. What this means is that after I logged in, I would just get a blank white page with no page source. To … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned: WordPress Comments Disappearing and Spam

Posted on March 21, 2009 by luis

Today I emailed my favorite coffee company Beanetics to ask them to have a repeating order of coffee and to remind them that I have the #11 Google hit for “beanetics.” OK its not #1 like it used to be, … Continue reading →

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How to fix a corrupted WordPress comments table

Posted on September 23, 2008 by luis

I logged into my WordPress admin panel and saw these ominous warnings: ‘./your_wordpress_database/wp_comments’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired. Uh oh. That doesn’t seem good. I went to one of my blog posts and it said the same … Continue reading →

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If your WordPress 2.1 is slow…

Posted on April 6, 2007 by luis

I just debugged a strange issue with this WordPress 2.1 blog. It’s running 2.1.2 to be exact, but I think the problem manifests itself with all 2.1.x versions. My site was running really slow – 40-50 seconds per page load. … Continue reading →

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Back from a blogging vacation

Posted on August 24, 2006 by luis

I’m still here… Just been taking a vacation from this blog. Sorry to be a dinosaur in your NetNewsWire or other RSS reader. More details soon. :)

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Poor Man’s FeedBurner

Posted on December 1, 2005 by luis

I wanted to get an idea of how many subscribers I had to my new blog MacHappy. It’s a blog I started to talk about Mac stuff and also the Mac apps I’m writing which I call Happy Apps. I … Continue reading →

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