Archive for September, 2007
Quoshing WordPress 2.3 upgrade gremlins…
Primarily because of the WordPress plugins that I use, a few inconsistencies have leaped out of the woodwork that needed to be fixed. Here are the issues that I encountered: Database errors appearing in web pages This was a momentary discovery along the upgrade trail, entirely caused by the way in which I was doing [...]
An upgrade threadmill starts again…
No sooner have we passed the CS3 circus than Adobe and Corel start bringing out new releases of their consumer digital imaging software. This autumn has brought us Paint Shop Pro X2 and Photoshop Elements 6. I’ll wait for the reviews but I can’t say that very much about the new Elements strikes me as making [...]
Running SQL scripts with MySQL
Here’s another of those little things that you forget if you aren’t using them every day: running MySQL scripts using the Windows command line. Yes, you can also run SQL commands interactively but there’s a certain convenience about scripts. I am putting an example here so that it can be found again easily: mysql -u [...]
WordPress database error: [Can’t create table … (errno: 121)]
I was trying to upgrade one of my test blogs to WordPress 2.3 RC1 when I got error messages like the above littering the screen during the installation. The PHP functions mysql_noerr (or mysqli_noerr) and mysql_error (or mysqli_error) seem to have been busily at work. These messages told me that the upgrade hadn’t worked so [...]
Trying out WordPress 2.3 RC1
The final release of the next version of WordPress is due out on Monday and, because there are sure to be security fixes included, I have been giving the release candidate a go on my offline blogs. 2.3 is another major release so I have been doing some preparation. In fact, WordPress have a blog [...]
SAS Institute enters the blogosphere
To get to the blogs hosted by SAS Institute, all you need to do is go here. I have to say that there is quite a spread of subject matter ranging from the high level business strategy offerings through to detailed snippets for SAS programmers. There seems to be a lot here for anyone interested [...]