North Atlantic Skyline: great blog from the West of Ireland with lots of great photos!
Customizable Dashboard Feeds
I’ve just checked in the first bits of code that will allow for customizable feeds in the WordPress MU Dashboard. It’s very much a work-in-progress and will change but here’s a few screenshots to whet your appetite! Think of this as pre-alpha code. The final version will look very different.
Cows With Guns
I linked to this before but that movie file is showing a 404 now. Here’s another Cows With Guns movie for your viewing pleasure!
Balancing Point
This is a great short movie on balancing rocks. Booorrriiinnnnggg? Nah, not the way they do it! (via)
CSS Culture: Laying it all out
Using tables for layout isn’t always evil. It makes debugging html pages much easier on occasion. This ok/cancel article delves into the preoccupation web developers have with doing layout in CSS and why it really is silly!
I posted something similar ages ago but the CSS brigade shall have their way…
Love the accompanying comic too!
IRA orders end of armed campaign
I hope this time it’ll last. The IRA announced yesterday that they have, “formally ordered an end to the armed campaign.”
Of course Ian Paisley made a huge commotion about it but hopefully all parties in Northern Ireland can now sit down together and do something constructive.
(A quick search returns this disturbing page on Ian Paisley. Did he really abduct a 16 year old girl in 1956? The Wikipedia page on him is much less inflamitory.)
Oh yes, here’s a photo of the IRA laying down their arms:
How you SHOULD use blogs in education
James follows up his previous blogs in education post with a new one on how you should use blogs in education. I bet we’ll see some interesting uses of WPMU in education with James involved!
Sunset Blue
Water drops on roadside grass, Sherkin Island.
I had to clean this image up a lot. DCAM Noise 2.0 is useful, as is selective gaussian blur.
Wait!
Bus at Tall Ships Festival, Waterford.
F/3.5, 18mm, ISO400, 1/3sec
WPMU for cpanel sites
There have been too many complaints on the forums about people having trouble installing WPMU. A number of these are on Cpanel administered sites.
Until this morning I had never used Cpanel, but thanks to James Farmer I had my chance.
Here’s how I debugged the problem with installing WPMU on Cpanel sites.
This problem probably extends to any web based installer that creates a .htaccess file in the root directory because Cpanel creates an empty file of the same name.
This is a problem because the file is owned by the user running Cpanel, not the web server. You have to change the permissions of the file through Cpanel, or ftp in and delete it.
Give me a shell any day.