Fred Yankowski » technical http://fred.yankowski.com my personal blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:41:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Calendar as information central http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/08/calendar-as-information-central/ http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/08/calendar-as-information-central/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 18:22:02 +0000 fred http://fred.yankowski.com/?p=54 I think Scott Adams is right, “the biggest software revolution of the future is that the calendar will be the organizing filter for most of the information flowing into your life”. Sharing calendars is still too hard, and when we solve that problem I expect it to be hugely useful. I expected shared calendar technology to become mainstream years ago and it still hasn’t happened. Just what is the roadblock?

]]> http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/08/calendar-as-information-central/feed/ 0 upgrading WordPress, or how to turn 30 minutes into several hours http://fred.yankowski.com/2008/07/27/upgrading-wordpress/ http://fred.yankowski.com/2008/07/27/upgrading-wordpress/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:04:09 +0000 fred http://fred.yankowski.com/?p=20 It took maybe 30 minutes to upgrade from WordPress 2.2 to 2.6, including time to revisit my notes on how I’ve done it before and to scan the official install/upgrade notes. But then it took a couple of hours to figure out why categories were gone and how to fix it. Long story short, I had to manually build the wp_terms table rows based on the old wp_categories rows. The SQL given in a forum note, lost categories after 2.6 upgrade, did the trick. But what a waste of time.

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I experimented creating a test using the Selenium IDE plug-in with Firefox and ran into a glitch right away. The page I’m testing does a redirect to force the connection into SSL/https. The IDE tool captures the session OK but when I try to run the test from Selenium on the host it hangs at the point where the conversation switches to the SSL port. I tried starting out in SSL but then it hangs when the ultimate page redirects back to a port 80 connection. Rats.

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