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About a month ago, I created a post called “Wiki Wiki WIki” where I talked about setting up a Wiki for my own personal use.  Well, at the time, I set it up on a MySQL instance that I’d set aside purely for testing things, but was using for nothing else.  I then made two fatal oversights….

Read the whole article - The Importance of Backups!

We all know that we should test our websites once we’ve developed them, and that we should test them in multiple different browers, but how easy is it to actually do this?  I have Firefox 3.0, IE6 and IE7 at my disposal, and I could probably install Flock and Safari, but what about SeaMonkey running under FreeBSD, or what about running on a Mac platform???  Read the whole article - Testing Your Websites

One of the nice features of Worpress (used for this blog) is that people can register as a user which lets themreceive notifications whenever I add new content.  Whenever this happens, I receive an email notification that they’ve registered - and as you can imagine, I like receiving emails like this.

Today though, this all changed!  Read the whole article - Wordpress Flaw

I came across an interesting new site today called Streamocracy.  In general, it seems to be a technology focused website aimed specifically at video sharing.

However, what caught my eye was their Newswire section.  It seems that what they’re doing here is aggregating RSS feeds from other technology-related sites across the Web and archiving recent content on their servers.  It’s essentially the same idea as what we see with Slashdot, only in this case, the posts are re-published “as-is”, rather than having a comment written by an editor (which is how Slashdot work).

I would encourage you to check them out - particularly the Newswire section (http://www.streamocracy.com/newswire/index.php) and to leave a comment here to share with us all what you think of their service!

Enjoy!

There have been a couple of changes recently at John’s Tech Blog.  Regular visitors may have already spotted the “MyBlogLog” widget halfway down the left navbar, and I’m sure you can’t miss the new Dilbert widget over on the right!

This leads me on to a couple of questions for my readers:

1. Do these widgets add or detract from your enjoyment of John’s Tech Blog?
2. Do they seem to noticeably slow down the loading of the page?
3. Would you be more likely to visit this site knowing that you can read the latest Dilbert whilst you’re here?

These widgets are both really easy to add to your own site, if you’d like to!  They both have a “Grab It” link, although you have to click on “Click here for today’s strip” on the Dilbert widget first.  I fyou need any help adding them, please drop me a line at my support site - http://support.sabinet.co.uk and I’ll see what I can do.

Finally, please consider joining my community on MyBlogLog - there’s a link on the widget to do this, and it will help us to stay in touch.

Enjoy!

-John.