Archive for the 'techy' Category

Wordpress Upgrade Turbulence

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

I just upgraded from Wordpress 1.5.2 to 2.0.3, the latest stable version.
I would love to report that it was all up and running effortlessly in a few clicks, but there were quite a few niggles! I had to head off to do something half way through upgrading which is not recommended! Aside from that, [...]

Overheard in Dalkey…

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

On passing another couple on the scenic coastline walk between Dalkey and Killiney:

“I can reply to e-mails OK…. I just can’t instigate an e-mail”

Well, it made us chuckle anyway…

Google API Gone Gaga?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I use the Google web search API a lot in a certain application. It has been good as gold for ages but since the New Year it has gone ape. It works intermittently at best, and even putting a 60 second lag between queries does not seem to do any good. The infamous “502 bad [...]

What You Get Is What You See: Results-Oriented UI

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen announced today that WYSIWYG is dead.
In a Monday morning moment, I thought for a second that the lover of white backgrounds, black text and blue underlined links had decided to banish this pink monstrosity from the interweb Fear not, he is actually talking about user interfaces!
The article is very interesting [...]