Why oh why oh why oh why?

Why do plugin developers rename directories, files and PHP functions from one release to the next? You end up going back to older versions because things break, there’s no obvious benefit to the end user in enduring the upgrade hassle, and you don’t have several hours to spend fathoming change for change’s sake.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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The great plugin purge and other tweakery

If you’ve visited The Spicy Cauldron before, you’ll notice there have been some changes made in addition to the site going members-only. Everything should be a heck of a lot faster to load into your browser than it was before the weekend, whatever your connection speed.

The front page from now on will carry one, maybe two, posts and no more than that. There are fewer plugins offering bells-and-whistles, less widgets taking up sidebar space. The focus now is on the core content—which is, after all, everyone’s primary interest—and on having a clean, uncluttered and unintimidating design.

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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

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Trying out new themes

I’m test-driving new themes. I may go with a new one, or I may stick with the current one. I just wanted to give folks a heads-up that there may be page strangeness sometimes when you visit!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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My MacBook Pro came back from repair having suffered a 'logic board failure'. I don't know what that is, but it sounds serious and ghastly. Thanks to the wonderful Migration Assistant in OS X, it took me all of half an hour to get my applications, email, settings and documents back onto the machine via a FireWire link-up with the iMac. Windows was never easy in that regard.

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