Archive For September 16th, 2004
See this photo? Looks like a beer in front of the US President. They’re having a good time, looks like Bush makes a good impression of a flapping chicken!
OK, this’ll make users of “proper databases” cringe but because MySQL doesn’t support sub-selects you can’t do the most obvious way of selecting records in one table that aren’t in another. Here’s how it’s done, with a clear explanation of why it works! select po.id from po left join pn on po.id=pn.id where pn.id is [...]
Someone on #wordpress asked how they could list the number of posts in every category. They were pointed at this page in the support forum. Even though we’re using Smarty as the templating system here, what’s stated there applies here! Add the following parameter to the call to {list_cats}:optioncount=1 ie. {list_cats optioncount=1 optional=’0′ all=’All’ sort_column=’name’} [...]
Mark found a bug in the backend but it’s been discovered already and discussed. I applied my own fix below.. Error: Warning: join(): Bad arguments. in …/wp-admin/edit.php on line 13 Fix: if( is_array( $editable ) == false ) $editable = array( “1″ ); $editable = join(‘,’, $editable); On another note, if you can’t post blog [...]
OMG, my machine at home is so noisy! Mel’s machine is possibly noisier, but not by much! This guide could be useful for both of us! (Via the ILUG list)
A frame can really add to a photo – it’s something I haven’t looked at much, but these two photos, Summer Time and Untitled 1 both use whitespace to good effect! It looks like the subjects are bursting to get out of or squeeze into the frame!
Simon tried it, so did Kae, now I’m about to try it. Download Firefox and play with the live bookmarks stuff! Later – Dougal uses Thunderbird to RSS feeds. That’d make more sense for me too. I’m install Thunderbird 0.8 as we speak!
