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Tag: wordpress 2.6

  • Strange Outage

    We’re back up after a very strange outage. The 500 internal server error was because our .htaccess file was sideways.

    What I mean by sideways is that part of a line had been truncated which led to an incorrect htaccess rule and all sorts of error pages thrown up.

    Interestingly the only thing happening prior to the first errors was a page edit here in WordPress. I updated my dd-wrt page last night right before the errors started getting tossed up. Is it possible that wordpress 2.6.3 stomped on my htaccess??? Don’t know, but we’re back up now.

  • WordPress 2.6 Plus Google Gears….

    I vaguely remember hearing about Google Gears when it was announced and it wasn’t the kind of thing that grabbed a lot of peoples imagination or a lot of attention. Here’s the description from the Google Gears site (gears.google.com..

    Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:
    Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop
    Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
    Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

    But… the next version of WordPress (2.6) is supposed to support Google Gears and here’s what exciting things this can mean…

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