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Comment on Upgrade and design tweaks by Jos Schuurmans

Jos Schuurmans — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:45:13 +0000

@Ton yep I use Akismet, it’s kinda unavoidable. Just had a look at the Free Themes Directory http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/. Atahualpa seems interesting. Also Responsive talks to me. And possibly PageLines. But the cost of switching seems quite high. It takes time to compare, test, switch and tweak.

Comment on Upgrade and design tweaks by Ton Stikkelbroeck

Ton Stikkelbroeck — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:51 +0000

A nice theme to work with is atahualpa and as plugin against spam I recommend Akismet.

Comment on How to backup your WordPress content database and WordPress website files by Jos Schuurmans

Jos Schuurmans — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:43:39 +0000

Thanks @Ton, @Randy.

http://josschuurmans.com/2012/05/06/upgrade-and-design-tweaks/

“(…) The backup documentation seemed a bit intimidating at first, but it turns out that my hosting provider offers an option to automate backups via FTP to a server in a different location. We’re doing that once a day now. (…) So I just pushed the upgrade button and that was it. (…)”

So I think that means it’s an FTP cron job and btw we’re using Webmin. I haven’t checked DirectAdmin; might be worth a look.

Comment on How to backup your WordPress content database and WordPress website files by Randy Wintjes

Randy Wintjes — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:16:13 +0000

If you are lucky enough to work with direct admin all you need is to press a few buttons to backup your site (ftp content) along with the database. This is part of the DirectAdmin environment.

Otherwise follow Ton’s steps. But be sure to backup the database aswell(!) using phpmyadmin (Export tab)

If you dont want all this husstle (eg, if you need to do this on a daily base) I recommend the use of a cronjob. A bit technical knowledge will help setting up such thing.

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/cron/

Comment on How to backup your WordPress content database and WordPress website files by Ton Stikkelbroeck

Ton Stikkelbroeck — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:38:01 +0000

I never thought about it very long Just used my FTP client (filezilla) to copy the complete wordpress directory from the webserver to my own harddisk

Comment on Run through the pain or take a break? by Jos Schuurmans

Jos Schuurmans — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:34:38 +0000

Thanks Ton, I will try to take it easy. It’s difficult though when you have a schedule. I mean, *how much* easier should I take it? Stop training until I feel nothing? In the mean time I wish I could substitute the cardiovascular aspect with some other exercise that doesn’t strain my foot. Swimming, perhaps…

Comment on Run through the pain or take a break? by Ton Stikkelbroeck

Ton Stikkelbroeck — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:05:12 +0000

Take it easy Jos! If you feel pain during exercise lower the pace. I once had a little problem with my achilles and for three weeks I only did relatively short runs at a low pace and the problem was solved. If it really hurts during training, stop and wait for a few days

Comment on “Niet mee lopen knoeien,” zegt Ton. Maar het is een dwangneurose! by Ton Stikkelbroeck

Ton Stikkelbroeck — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:17:27 +0000

Je hebt wel een heel oud plaatje uitgezocht Wel eentje uit mijn beste jaren, dat dan weer wel

Comment on Gedit or Notepad++ (or something else?) for html and css editing? by Randy Wintjes

Randy Wintjes — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:08:52 +0000

You might want to try out PSPad. Both syntaxis highlighting and FTP connection are avalible right out of the box. I myself am using the application for over 2 years without any issues. The app is lightweight, has a clear interface, is still in development and is totally free : http://www.pspad.com/

Usual tools are includes aswell like search in a dir structure, replace, code clean up etc.

Cheers

Comment on But how, @jeffjarvis, do your students apply those for-profit business models? by Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:40:54 +0000

This makes me wonder whether “need” is the right lens. That goes too much to the view that journalism is a virtue, even a religion. The people need sermons. Do they? Needs are almost always not fully met. Thus we’ll keep mourning about a lack of enough journalism to meet that need.
Perhaps a better perspective would come from looking at value: If we had this much journalism, look at the wonderful things we could do with it.
If we had transparent government, how much more efficient could that make it and coverage of it? If we had more data could we make wiser decisions not only regarding government but also in business? If we had platforms that let us connect with each other, could we solve problems and create value more effectively?
Shifting from need to value is a shift from religion to commerce but you know that I think that’s OK.