Category Archives: Rants

Rants and raves

Thunderbird 5.0, what a load of crap.

Posted on 11/7/2011 by Rich

No not the Gerry Anderson one, sadly. But the pile of crap that Mozilla has released as the update to Thunderbird 3. No I’m not sure what happened to 4 either. Inbox keeps crashing, no idea why. Basic plugins don’t … Continue reading →

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Considering removing eShop from WordPress plugin repository.

Posted on 14/5/2011 by Rich

Within a year of releasing eShop I managed to get it onto the WordPress plugin repository. It certainly increased the number of downloads, and even brought in a little money – not that that was ever the intent. But I … Continue reading →

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WordPress plugin – IIS issues

Posted on 28/9/2010 by Rich

A case of strange but true tale of woe. A few versions back I added in some functionality to my plugin, eShop, for users to view their orders. I called the file user.php. A lot of my other files have … Continue reading →

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WordPress hosted theme, no thanks.

Posted on 24/9/2010 by Rich

I am so glad I don’t develop themes for WordPress. rather draconian values seem to have snuck into the design process.

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When using other people’s code

Posted on 21/8/2010 by Rich

ensure it does what it is supposed to, and isn’t over engineered with useless crap. All I did was look for a simple function to create a WordPress query, gave up and used my own, a smaller and better one … Continue reading →

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Thank you for saying my plugin is broken

Posted on 14/7/2010 by Rich

Thank you so much for saying my plugin is broken. Thank you so much for not contacting me with the issue which allows me to fix it. Your feedback is always welcomed, but without giving me the chance to fix … Continue reading →

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