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Ipstenu on January 21st, 2010

Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying And Love Open Source
I actually deleted this entire post on Tuesday because I am an idiot and spent a lot of time recovering it, only to realize it needed to be totally re-done anyway. And in the end, they did what I needed!
WordPress 3.0 is the big [...]

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Ipstenu on January 15th, 2010

Earlier this month I talked about how my server was acting wonky and how I fixed it using, among other tools, TOP.
This week I was chatting with a fellow about CPU usage and his site. He runs a rather large Wordpress blog and the database is about 500 megs. As a [...]

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Ipstenu on September 24th, 2009

I'm going to be upfront and admit that I've never actually liked this plugin. A very large part of me wants to side with Matt Mullenweg in that if you have a good server, configured properly, with a decent host, you should be just fine. Also, it doesn't really work well with [...]

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Ipstenu on July 15th, 2009

Back in the end of April, I started puttering around with a plugin I called Ban Hammer, which had the effect of blocking anyone who was on my comment blacklist from signing up on any of my blogs. By May, it was ready for public consumption and I put it on the WordPress site.
Yesterday [...]

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Ipstenu on May 6th, 2009

So I wasn't paying attention and the Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0) was announced April 26th. All plugins submitted between May 1 and July 31 are eligible. Ban Hammer went 'live' on Sunday May 3rd. It may actually be eligible, since I didn't release the code when I wrote it. Look, [...]

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