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Super Cache for the Weekend

WP Super Cache 1.0 came out several months ago and while it worked fine for most people there’s always room for improvement and bug fixes. Here are some of the bug fixes and improvements coming in the next version which I plan on releasing next week.

There are a lot of changes there so if you have a self hosted blog I would really appreciate if you download the development version, wp-super-cache.zip and install it in your plugins folder.

  • Use $_SERVER[ ‘SERVER_NAME’ ] to create cache directories.
  • Only create blogs cached directories if valid requests and blogs exist.
  • Only clear current blog’s cache files if navigation menu is modified
  • Added clean_post_cache action to clear cache on post actions
  • Removed garbage collection details on Contents tab
  • Added wp_cache_check_mobile cacheaction filter to shortcircuit mobile device check.
  • Don’t delete cache files for draft posts
  • Added action on wp_trash_post to clear the cache when trashed posts are deleted
  • Show a warning when 304 browser caching is disabled (because mod_rewrite caching is on)
  • New check for safe mode if using less that PHP 5.3.0
  • Added wp_supercache_remove_cookies filter to disable anonymous browsing mode.
  • Fixed garbage collection schedule dropdown
  • Fixed preload problem clearing site’s cache on “page on front” sites.
  • Fix for PHP variable not defined warnings
  • Fixed problem refreshing cache when comments made as siteurl() sometimes didn’t work
  • Preloading of taxonomies is now optional
  • Domain mapping fixes.
  • Better support for https sites. Remove https:// to get cache paths.
  • Added AddDefaultCharset .htaccess rule back in and added an option to remove it if required.
  • Added multisite plugin that adds a “Cached” column to Network->Sites to disable caching on a per site basis.
  • Added WPTouch plugin to modify browser and prefix list in mobile detection code. Added support for that plugin’s exclude list.
  • Fixed cache tester
  • Filter the tags that are used to detect end-of-page using the wp_cache_eof_tags filter.

Harness racing on Cork’s roads

Two harness racers on the Cork to Mallow road defying Garda attempts to stop them and driving against traffic on a very busy road. Crazy guys, crazy.

More on Reddit and Silicon Republic.

This comment has received too many negative votes
Look lads there are races on that road all the time with horses and no harm done it was the Garda? that caused the madness forcering the pony to the other side of the road it 2 horses on the right side of the road for 2 mile the first 1 finish first wins but the Garda fucked it all up

MrFastpony 1 hour ago

This comment has received too many negative votes
For all ye stupid fucking? cunts that have Notting better to do but call names what about all the junkies and prostitute and rapiest n child malisters of settle people ya never hare about travellers up on court for any of that so who is the real scumbags here I think it the settle kind

MrFastpony 6 hours ago

Why so skeptical?

In a few years time, there may well be no rhinos left alive. And when I say no rhinos, I do not mean “none left in the wild”. I mean none in the zoos either. The captive animals will have been killed too. The reason for this is an insatiable desire among some people for rhinoceros horn – a material thought by some to possess magical healing powers. It’s really just a mass of keratin – the same substance that your hair and fingernails is made from. …

This is what you get when critical thinking is left to one side and blind belief trumps patient scientific inquiry. Where unsupported and uncontested beliefs thrive, dreadful scenarios can play themselves out, right down to the last animal standing.

Skepticism – the wider issue

Reddit PvE Rev 6 Minecraft Server

One of the great things about Minecraft is that you can pack a level into one nice compressed archive. r/Minecraft on Reddit have a number of servers (I think) and this is one of them. You can download that world from here, it’s pveRev6.tar.gz but there are lots of other worlds there to check out too.

I had to fiddle around a bit to get creative mode working. I think I copied the region folder from the tarball into a creative world I created for this purpose. There was probably one or two other steps too but it’s been a while. Figuring out stuff in Minecraft is half the fun isn’t it anyway so go find out yourself 🙂

Happy birthday my rubber keyed friend!

Well, 2012 has turned out to be quite a year for retro computing. The Commodore 64 turned 30 this year, Jack Tramiel died, and the ZX Spectrum is 30 years old too!

I have fond memories of the original 48K ZX Spectrum. Even though it had a tiny rubber keyboard it suited my much younger and smaller hands. I do recall the “Symbol Shift” key got stuck a few times making it hard to type in BASIC code but I guess I opened up the machine and cleaned the keyboard membrane when that happened.

On the off chance you haven’t read it yet there’s a great article on the Sir Clive Sinclair’s machine in the first issue of Retro Gamer that came free with the 100th.

At the time many 8 bit machines used tapes to load their software. Disks were a rare luxury. The loading sounds became so engrained in our minds that even now they’re recognisable and someone created an iOS app that recreates them. (Thanks Conor!)


Or the real thing. It takes a while …

Edit: Conor noticed that google.co.uk has a new Google Doodle for the day that’s in it:

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