Ajah and Ajax

While Ajax deals with asynchronously loading XML, Ajah is simpler: It loads additional HTML after the page is already shown to the user.
Ajah is also the term for societies among the Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time.

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August 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment »

Ajah Comments

This gives you paged comments with Ajax. You can define how many comments get shown per page. With “Older” and “Newer” you can quickly skim through older comments without page reloads.
This is very useful for posts with huge numbers of comments. Only the latest comments get shown initially which makes the post load much faster.
You […]

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August 19th, 2007 · 24 Comments »

Some Thoughts on Wordpress Hosting

Every now and then I get a request for a 1.5 version of a plugin. And most of the time, I have to pass. And I wonder:
Skills and time aside, wouldn’t you enjoy

Having the latest Wordpress? Always? Up-to-date?
Using any plugin, the latest version of it, anything you want?
Having the permalinks *you* want, not what your […]

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August 18th, 2007 · 15 Comments »

Aielman’s SEO Theme

This is what happens when I sit down to create a 2-column theme. When I had it the way I liked (yes, with a sidebar!) I thought why not try without sidebar, just one more time? And it looked even better.
What is an Aielman? Aielmen are the inhabitants of the Aiel Waste in Robert Jordan’s […]

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August 17th, 2007 · 26 Comments »

All in One SEO Pack Release History

Many people asked for it, I finally sat down to make this post. I will not include all the history now, just starting from 1.0. If you’re using something pre 1.x, please upgrade.

1.4.6.8
vendor independent support for internationalization
only update if your internationalization plugin doesn’t work
1.4.6.7
fixed bug with whitespaces that caused strange unicode characters to appear (thanks […]

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July 27th, 2007 · 182 Comments »

Ruby On Rails on CentOS 4.5

Since you can’t easily upgrade to CentOS 5 from 4.5 with yum you have to compile it all yourself.

Apache 2.2.4
PHP 5.2.3
Ruby 1.8.6

The following script downloads and compiles a complete stack of the newest apps for a ruby on rails installation, even including PHP. Complete with SSL and the newest Subversion.

#!/bin/bash
mkdir install
cd install
sudo yum -y remove […]

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July 15th, 2007 · 8 Comments »

Setting Up Sudo in 10 Seconds

This is the first thing I do when logging into a dedicated or virtual dedicated server:

su -
visudo

User_Alias FULLTIMERS = youruser
User_Alias PARTTIMERS = anotheruser

Defaults:FULLTIMERS !lecture

# full time sysadmins can run anything on any machine without a password
FULLTIMERS ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

# part time sysadmins may run anything but need a password
PARTTIMERS ALL = ALL

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July 15th, 2007 · No Comments »

All in One SEO Pack FAQ

Frequently asked questions about All in One SEO Pack. Please read before you comment.

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July 11th, 2007 · 394 Comments »

All in One SEO Pack goes China

All in One SEO Pack is in use around the globe. I get traffic from the two Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia and even Africa. From its backlinks I know it’s in heavy use in China. And thanks to Liang, the first official translation is out: Chinese Simplified (starting from version 0.6.2.4).

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June 16th, 2007 · 10 Comments »

All in One SEO Pack Help

All Help texts for the All in One SEO Plugin, accessible through the options page.

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May 11th, 2007 · 355 Comments »

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