Category Archives: Rants

Coping With Warez: My Brain’s Spew

Before I start this post, I just want to say that it’s not my intention to sound evangelical–hopefully I don’t.
Since I started selling my plugin, I’ve been noticing my stuff on a couple of warez boards. On top of that, I get daily searches landing on my site looking for caffeinated content registration key, [...]

Keyboard Went Crunch

I’m without a keyboard until I make it to the electronics store.  As much as I like the Asus Eee PC and spelling with flickr, they aren’t exactly put together for PHP development or web design.

Fantastico Suck-ass-tico!

Just a little weekend gripe for those who care.
So far, with the Caffeinated Content for WordPress plugin, the majority of bug reports have come from people using one of two things:

Outdated versions of WordPress (right now, I have things compatible with WP2.1 and above, and have decided to draw the line there–I can’t [...]

IPN is fixed.

Still trying to figure out how an old outdated script got onto my server…
It’s all fixed now, anyway…all post-purchase processes should carry on automatically.

IPN is broken…

The IPN script I wrote to handle transactions mysteriously reverted to an old version. Not sure why…but temporarily the price will remain at the point it is now and I’ll manually approve transactions until it’s fixed.

Nofollow tag badness…dofollow plugin goodness.

These days, WordPress has all external links set to nofollow as default. I, for one, don’t like this one bit.
Anyway, to encourage commenting, I picked up the “dofollow” plugin. It removes all instances of ‘rel=nofollow’ so you’ll get link credit from the big ol’ G for any comments you leave here.
Ain’t [...]