I have a confession to make. When I start a new work or freelance project, I often become obsessed with the search to find the perfect tool to help me get the job done. For some reason, I love the process of researching, testing, and comparing software and web applications and I jump at the […]
Welcome to the new berbs.us. The migration took just a little longer than I was hoping due to some issues I had in moving all of my content over to the improved Movable Type 4 templating system. I need to note here that upgrading Movable Type 3 to Movable Type 4 is, in itself, a […]
Not that I think many of you will care or be affected, I temporarily pulled down comments and trackbacks from this blog earlier tonight. I’m beginning the process of moving everything over from Movable Type 3.3 to the brand new Movable Type 4.01. It’s a fair amount of work, and I need a nice, well […]
Just the other day I was considering moving this blog into WordPress instead of the various versions of Movable Type I’ve been using to run this thing for almost four years now. There were a few reasons I was thinking about doing this: I’m a tweaker, and like to try new things I’ve used WordPress […]
I just sorted through this blog’s comment spam folder and found a couple of valid messages that were incorrectly flagged as spam due to some overly aggressive settings on my part. I’ve published those two comments now, but didn’t find any other legitimate ones. I apologize if your comment got deleted in this process. I’ve […]
I came across a screencast today that demos a powerful tool used by spammers to pollute message boards, wikis, blogs, and other types of online software. It’s called XRumer, and makes it easy to get through CAPTCHA tests, email confirmations, and other common techniques that supposedly prevent spammers. I’m a lot less confident in these […]
By the time you read this post, this blog should be completely moved over from its two year stay at Quality Host Online to our new, roomer, hosting account at Media Temple. If all goes well, you shouldn’t notice a thing. Update on 12/02/2006: Well, it wasn’t seamless, but it could have been worse. The […]
Casey and I are in the middle of getting a new blogging project off the ground for her. I’m her web/blogging guy by default, so I’ve been slowly getting things setup for her on the technical end. One of tasks was finding a good website hosting company, something that seems easy, but is actually pretty […]
Recently, I discovered that Yahoo offers a way of submitting a simple sitemap to their Site Explorer service to let them know about all of the pages on your site. This is very similar in concept to Google’s sitemap protocol that was released last summer, but is just a simple text listing of URLs instead […]
Always one for the cutting edge, I just upgraded berbs.us to use the very recently released Movable Type 3.3 from version 3.2, which I installed last August. If you’re reading this on the site and not through my syndication feed, you’re probably noticing that something doesn’t look quite right at the moment. I’m seeing the […]