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Mobile edition
I just installed a new plugin for WordPress that detects mobile browsers for mobile devices like the iPhone or iPod touch and automatically presents the blog in a way that is better suited for mobile browsers.
Upgrade success!
WordPress recently released version 2.9.1. I have tried a couple of times to upgrade using the automated upgrade option within the blog. Each time, it would throw messages about not having required permissions to perform the upgrade. It appears that the automated upgrade will not work on my hosting provider.
So, I took the time to download the update and performed the install manually tonight. It took a little while to make sure I got everything copied up to the site and not overwrite something important. It appears that the upgrade went well.
Our 17 month old
I realized that I have not posted an updated photo of Aaron lately. He is growing like a weed. Since I last posted about him, he is getting around all over the place and trying to talk. They grow up way too fast. You can click on the photo to see a larger version.
Win a Drobo
There are just a few days left to get in on the contest to win a Drobo at Managing Your Digital Life.
Using Technorati
I setup my blog tonight to use Technorati’s services. Maybe it will bring some traffic to the site.
5 video tutorials on AJAX
I was looking around for video tutorials for AJAX and Javascript and I came across Stian Solberg’s blog. The videos include one about debugging AJAX with Firebug and an introduction to jQuery.
http://ajaxwidgets.com/Blogs/stian/5_video_tutorials_on_ajax.bb
Technorati Tags: javascript, Firebug, AJAX, jQuery
JRuby 1.0 released
If you have been using Java for some time, but have dabbled in Ruby as of late, you might be interested in knowing that JRuby 1.0 has been released. It provides a 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language based on version 1.8.5 of the Ruby interpreter.
.NET Garbage Collector
How much do you really know about the garbage collector in .NET? Take the .NET GC PopQuiz and then read the followup to find out the real answers.
Borland BDS 2005 Problem
I have been struggling with an issue when launching Borland BDS 2005 lately. I kept seeing an error during launch that an EPackageRegistrationException in coreide90.bpl. I tried searching for everything that I could find to fix the issue, but there was just no information beyond they fix for the same error involving HTMLHelp.IDERegister.
I am running Vista, by the way. I had missed on the error dialog
earlier that there was an access denied error. So, I thought about a
possible permissions issue which did not really seem to make sense.
Nonetheless, I went through the process of changing the permissions on
my login user account for the “C:\Program Files\Borland” directory from
Read+Execute to Full Control.
Upon launching the BDS environment, I had no more errors. Finally! Success!
Technorati Tags: Delphi, BDS, EPackageRegistrationException, Vista