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Ramp Closed. Use Next Exit

April 17, 2011 Andrew Arensburger

(See what I did there? It’s because my site is a fill-in-the-blank on the Information Superhighway. Get it?) The more eagle-eyed among you who visit this site on a regular basis (both of you) may have noticed some changes to the layout and whatnot. Or maybe something just went kerflooie in the RSS feed and… Continue reading Ramp Closed. Use Next Exit

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Keywords Seem to Be Working Now

August 1, 2009 Andrew Arensburger

Those links at the bottom of posts that say “Tags: foo, bar, baz” should now be working. Back when I started this weblog, WordPress didn’t have keyword support, so I installed a plugin to implement them. Then at some point keywords became a core feature of WP. I think that having tags in the core… Continue reading Keywords Seem to Be Working Now

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Character Encodings Are a PITA

December 6, 2008 Andrew Arensburger3 Comments

Character encoding schemes (UTF-8, ASCII, ISO-8859-1/-15, Windows-1252, etc.) are an incredible source of headaches. Stay away from them. (Oh, and if you tell me I mean “raw character encoding” or “codepoint set” some such, I’ll whack you upside the head with a thick Unicode reference.) In case you hadn’t noticed, I upgraded WordPress not too… Continue reading Character Encodings Are a PITA

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