Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes

Till now I was hosting my site from my home machine (intially with cable net, then with DSL). It worked quite well. Due frequent interrupts, I had to move to “real” hosting. I considered The Internet Hosting Cooperative. But I think OpenHosting (The OpenVPS Project) is more flexible and gives more value for money.
Complete [...]

blogdsgn : News, links and useful stuff for the blog designer

After visiting several WP sites with photos from Flickr on the side-bar, I wanted to have photos from my Gallery in the side-bar. Yesterday I found “Gallery-RSS” , a cool plugin for WP from Jon.
This plugin makes use of MagpisRSS, But I couldn’t find a way to read attributes of elements using MagpieRSS,
I [...]

Wordpress Top Sites

debian graphics

I didn’t find a step by step guide(for newbies and that works) to setup the “BlogTimes” plugin for WordPress. Here you go:

Download BlogTimes plugin
Unzip wp-blogtimes.zip
Upload blogtimes.php into your wp-content/plugins folder
Setup write permissions for wp-images and blogtimes.png, like:

// assuming webserver is in group (www-data on DEB)
chmod 775 wp-images    
chmod 775 blogtimes.png

Add the [...]

Flooded by spam ! Ok got to install all available spam plugins, hacks …
Fortunately found this hack and was very useful in cleaning up the crap.