20 Years BloggingOn Saturday, November 6th, 2004, I wrote the text what would become my first blog post. It’s in Spanish, and I wrote it on my beloved iBook G3 near a boarding gate at the Ezeiza International Airport, after having spent a long month in Buenos Aires visiting family and friends.
Migrating De Programmatica Ipsum From WordPress to HugoI finally did it: I migrated my monthly magazine “De Programmatica Ipsum” from WordPress to Hugo, and this blog post explains how it happened.
The Wordpress Market is a Red OceanAt some point in 2023 I asked online for WordPress experts for the remake of a website, and it felt like opening a fire hose.
Running akosma softwareAs I celebrate 25 years of work as a software developer, I look back at one of the most thrilling and frantic times in my professional life: those five years in which I worked as a freelance professional.
Migrating from WordPress to HugoI’ve been migrating old blog posts (2004-2014) to this blog lately, and you can find them by clicking the “Next” button at the bottom of the index.
RebootI started my first blog in December 2004. But that was not my first website. I published that one in August 1996. At first, just a pure HTML website, with almost no JavaScript or CSS, lots of <FONT> and <FRAME> and <MARQUEE> tags all over the place.
Markdown FTWMarkdown is my new favorite tool. It all started while looking for alternatives to LaTeX to write documents and booklets, because since the release of the iPad last year, I wanted to publish in PDF and in EPUB format at the same time, and LaTeX does not offer that option off the box.
Del.icio.us to WordpressI’ve just uploaded a new project on Github called delicious_wp: it’s a small Ruby script that simply fetches the items stored in del.icio.us the previous week and creates a blog post with them. You can set up a small cron job to execute this script every week, which is what I’ve done for this blog :) I know del.icio.us has a similar feature integrated, but it executes daily, instead of weekly, which is what I wanted.
WordPressI am a big WordPress fan. And I do not suffer from the NIH syndrome. So when I had to build a site for my company, the choice of WordPress was a natural one. I’ve been using it for Open Kosmaczewski (my personal blog now) for over 3 years, and I must say that it impresses every day a bit more.
WordPress 2.8 and the get_link() error in line 647 of dashboard.phpWow, that's a long title, but it should drive people with this problem right here. If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to 2.8, you might have encountered a nasty error in your Dashboard, which says something about a
600th Post and Mobile VersionThis is the 600th post in this blog! It all started with this post written in the airport of Buenos Aires, coming back to Switzerland. And the news of the day is that, thanks to Donncha O Caoimh, the new WordPress Super Cache plugin now works with MobilePress, which officially enables a mobile version of this site.
wp-super-cache problem? Easy fixI’ve just installed the excellent wp-super-cache plugin to accelerate things a bit in this blog; today somebody sent one of my pages to reddit and I’ve had more users than usual! - by the way, thanks for coming! :)
Wordpress 2.5I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5 and so far I love it. The only glitch was an easy-to-fix UTF-8 problem but that’s it. Everything’s working.
That Nice Freedom of Modifying SoftwareOne of the best learning tools I have found in my career is to take someone else’s code, and to modify it slightly to see what happens, to play with it, and eventually to release that code in this blog, or send it to the original author, fixing it somehow or adding some feature:
Posting Remotely... From Google Docs and Spreadsheets!Posting from Google Docs & Spreadsheets… This is a test posting from what used to be Writely, the online word processing tool.