Wordpress
Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – Wordpress Annoying Bugs
Wordpress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. Wordpress 2.9 failed cron jobs and missed schedules are one such bug. This hasn’t started in Wordpress 2.9. Searching for “missed schedule” with “Wordpress” keywords, you’re Continue Reading →
Drupal
Internet Explorer’s annoying 30 CSS files limit bug
Internet Explorer is a lousy browser family, and it has some of the most annoying bugs possible. Took me a while to figure out why websites were breaking in some pages, till I was finally able to figure out that Internet Explorer has a bug where it can handle only pages with under 30 CSS files. Anything above that and the page would go dead. Don’t believe me? check Microsoft’s “All style Continue Reading →
SEO
Google Toolbar Pagerank Update Mistake : Redirection Change Effect
Google updated their Toolbar Pagerank a few days ago. Usually, I don't pay much attention to that, but this particular time there was something very interesting happening. One of the domains I have filination.com dropped from PR5 to PR2 and this was due to a Google mistake on how I redirected. While I explain the story, you'll notice that after a quick redirection Google automatically fixed the Continue Reading →
Development
Block Search Engine Traffic Overload – Yahoo, CUIL & Baidu
Although they bring in very little traffic, the crawl rate for some of the smaller search engines can create a huge load on a website server and even bring down a site. For some reason, Yahoo, CUIL and Baidu are among the worst of the search engines, hammering sites repeatedly consuming bandwidth and resources. To tackle that, I would suggest setting Yahoo’s crawl rate to something very slow Continue Reading →
General
Opening PDFs outside the browser (Firefox / Chrome)
Browser embedded PDFs should not be a built-in default option. To disable that, and have the PDFs open with the defaulted installed application, as they should, there are a few settings. When I was using Firefox, this usually took care of that in terms of Adobe Acrobat: Firefox > Tools > Options > Applications > Adobe Acrobat Document > Save to File But other browsers, Continue Reading →
Opening PDFs outside the browser (Firefox / Chrome)
Browser embedded PDFs should not be a built-in default option. To disable that, and have the PDFs open with the defaulted installed application, as they should, there are a few settings. When I was using Firefox, Continue Reading →
Excel’s date string parsing to fix dates & time for SPSS
SPSS only reads strict date & time input formats, but surveying applications don’t always output dates that way. Qualtrics, for example, outputs dates in the following way - “2009-11-03 16:39:47” which can then Continue Reading →
Internet Explorer’s annoying 30 CSS files limit bug
Internet Explorer is a lousy browser family, and it has some of the most annoying bugs possible. Took me a while to figure out why websites were breaking in some pages, till I was finally able to figure out that Internet Continue Reading →
Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – Wordpress Annoying Bugs
Wordpress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. Wordpress 2.9 failed cron Continue Reading →
Block Search Engine Traffic Overload – Yahoo, CUIL & Baidu
Although they bring in very little traffic, the crawl rate for some of the smaller search engines can create a huge load on a website server and even bring down a site. For some reason, Yahoo, CUIL and Baidu are among Continue Reading →
GWT’s Parameter Handling : Duplicate Content in Drupal & Gallery2
A while back Google announced the addition of parameter handling to the Google Webmasters Tools (GWT). We're happy to announce another feature to assist with managing duplicate content: parameter handling. Parameter handling Continue Reading →
Top SEO & Speed Wordpress Plugins To Boost Off 2010
Looking for some Wordpress plugin recommendations to kick off 2010 with more SEO & Speed? I got some for you. Around the beginning of 2010 I saw an explosion of lists with various recommended Wordpress plugins : Best Continue Reading →
Drupal Stuck Cron Jobs : MySQL server has gone away
Some things in Drupal are a pain in the ass to debug. Hanging cron jobs that never seem to end are one of those things. Strange messages start appearing like… Cron has been running for over an hour and is probably stuck. or Attempting Continue Reading →
