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Major Blog Cleanup

Hasan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:16:23 +0000

I’ve spent a great deal of time over the last few days cleaning up this blog. With too many things to really list exhaustively, I’ll fire off some of the major changes:

Clean WordPress Installation
Updated K2 Theme
Various Cosmetic Updates
New, Reduced Categories

More to come as I continue development and deployment. I look forward to complaints, comments and suggestions.

New Blog Feature: Subscribe to Comments

Hasan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:31:51 +0000

In doing some basic maintenance, upgrades and the like on the blog over the last several hours, I’ve installed a ‘Subscribe to Comments’ plug-in that will enable you to do just that. At the bottom of each comment submission form you’ll have the option to subscribe to subsequent comments (on the same post) by way of e-mail. The usual privacy stuff applies – I won’t share your e-mail address with anyone, you can trust me, blah blah blah.

Enjoy!

Blog on CS Finally Gets Its Fix

Hasan — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:33:02 +0000

I’ve been lagging on updates to the blog software lately, and am now pleased to announce that this blog has been updated to use the latest and greatest software. Both the blog engine and the theme engine have been updated to their latest released versions.

I decided against using the new widgetized sidebar interface in light of some AJAX strangeness within the K2 configuration panel for the sidebar (my widgets would suddenly disappear without apparent cause). I will give another shot at this when the next version of K2 is released. For now, I’m happy with the hard-coded sidebar as-is; since I already have it all set up the way I want it, there’s no need to change anything.

I’ve also updated several of the plugins used on this site. Increased performance, stability and features should ensue.

Please feel free to leave comments/feedback, especially if you find any bugs!

Upgrade to WordPress 2 Complete

Hasan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:33:32 +0000

Blog on CS is now running WordPress 2.x. The upgrade was smooth save some WPG2 glitches, which were solved within an hour, and some K2 glitches, which were solved within another hour.

All in all, I’m impressed so far. The transition was as smooth as can be expected and the benefits are clearly visible, not to mention hightened security. I highly recommend upgrading to anyone running an older version of WordPress.

WordPress Upgrade

Hasan — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:00:03 +0000

In between studying for tomorrow’s chemistry exam, I have upgraded the version of WordPress running on this blog to the latest available stable release under Gentoo Linux (x86). Please report any disturbances. I think that the transition was fairly smooth, thanks to the wonderful webapp-config.

The update really was necessary, since there were security fixes that needed to be applied as soon as posisble. I had been dragging my feet for a while on this one, but finally got around to it.

As an added bonus, I’ve corrected a few layout glitches in the site, improved Gravatar usage, and slightly updated the static pages on this blog.

I’m not procrastinating. I’m just taking a break.