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{ Monthly Archives } October 2007

WordPress Permalink Changes

While upgrad­ing my Word­Press install­a­tion, I decided that the permalink structure’s inclu­sion of the “/archives” string was super­flu­ous. http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2007/10/04/sample-post/ con­tains as much rel­ev­ant inform­a­tion as http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/10/04/sample-post/. So I changed the permalink struc­ture, and also installed Dean’s Permalinks Migra­tion to take care of the 301 redir­ec­tion of links to the old URLs. So far it seems […]

Personality Types

I’ve worked at com­pan­ies that did Myers-Briggs/Keirsey tem­pera­ment test­ing on people, and just for fun decided to try out another couple of tests over the last couple of months, most recently at mypersonality.info. It seems my per­son­al­ity type wanders, from INTJ to INTP and over to ISTJ. Either that, or I look at myself differently […]

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Summary

I’ve now fin­ished my cur­rent batch of post­ings about Sun’s OpenID IdP. Here’s a list­ing of the rel­ev­ant post­ings that the team has made. I’ll add new post­ings to this list as they’re pub­lished, or as I find them. Pur­pose and Policies my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Intro­duc­tion my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Busi­ness Pur­pose my Sun’s OpenID […]

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WordPress and File Masks

I upgraded to Word­Press 2.3 at the week­end. Everything seemed to upgrade prop­erly with no data­base errors, but I was get­ting a 500 Internal Server Error when I tried to look at the site pages. The error logs con­tained the answer – error: file is writ­able by oth­ers with a pointer to the main index.php […]

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Trust

Part of a series on Sun’s OpenID@Work ini­ti­at­ive; see the intro­duc­tion for more con­text. Trust is always an issue on the web. People don’t usu­ally even think about it, but they trust the DNS server to point their browser at the right web site when they click on a link, they trust the web server […]

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