You can never back up too often. I’ve been bitten by WordPress bugs (both when upgrading the core or plugins, and I’ve had sites hacked at least once). I haven’t found a good, automated backup mechanism for WordPress that keeps old history and allows an easy roll-back to an older (presumably working) version. I’ve become… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Tools
In-car camera mounts
I’ve purchased a fair bit of gear in the last few months for mounting both my video camera and DSLR in the car and I thought I’d take a few minutes and describe the setups I’m using. First up is the Gripper suction-cup mount from Filmtools (which I bought back in January and didn’t remember… Read more »
Suction cup camera mount
Playing around with a new suction cup mount that arrived last week. This one’s going to be a lot of fun…
Updated Flickr Bookmarklets
I’ve updated my Flickr Bookmarklets that I originally introduced in January ‘06. They’ve now got their own page, and I’ll make changes and updates there.
Cool Tools: XPE
I recently discovered the joy of XPath, thanks to a talk at one of the IndyJUG meetings a couple of months ago. Once I got the most basic of grasps on XPath queries, I was able to start churning out some pretty slick scraped RSS feeds for things like Pollstar artist and city searches, eBay… Read more »