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Category Archives: Blog and Website
Reminder: new blog and feed locations
Effective January 1, 2010, my blog is split into current and archived versions. Current blog Please update your bookmarks and feed subscriptions as follows: The address of the current blog is http://www.sutor.com/c/. The link to the blog feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/BobSutor. … Continue reading
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The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes. Blog entries since the beginning of 2010 are … Continue reading
New locations for Bob Sutor’s blog
I’ve been extensively reorganizing my website and effective January 1, 2010, my blog will be split into current and archived versions. Current blog Please update your bookmarks and feed subscriptions as follows: The address of the current blog is http://www.sutor.com/c/. … Continue reading
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My WordPress theming wishlist
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. As I’ve mentioned here ad nauseum, I use both WordPress and Drupal for this website and though I’ve managed to find a WordPress theme similar … Continue reading
Speeding up the site
At various times I’ve been concerned about the performance of this website. That is, how long does it take to serve up web pages from WordPress or Drupal and how much load does it put on the server? Reducing bandwidth … Continue reading
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The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes. Blog entries since the beginning of 2010 are … Continue reading
On tagging, especially for photos
Several years ago after my mother died, I started a big project to get all the family photos digitized and online. Since then I’ve done the photos for our immediate family, but I still have more to do, especially on … Continue reading
Sunday morning WordPress installation maintenance
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. This site is a merge of WordPress and Drupal, with the former handling the blog and the latter everything else. I use variations on the … Continue reading
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Monthly disclaimer
The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes. Blog entries since the beginning of 2010 are … Continue reading
Site statistics through September 30, 2009
Here are the rolling three month sutor.com site stats from Google Analytics, plus 12 month previous stats. Percentages are calculated with respect to total numbers of hits. Statistics are computed from the first to the last days of the months … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Monday, October 5, 2009 – Morning Edition
Blog and Website WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod & Android “More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast … Continue reading
Update on antisocial bookmarks
About once a month I publish an entry about what I’ve been calling antisocial bookmarks, the saving of links to articles, blog entries, websites, and documents to a blog without using a service like Delicious or Diigo. My last entry, … Continue reading
Monthly disclaimer
The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
Creating a book catalog with Drupal and the CCK, Views, and Amazon modules
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. Some of the links below may not work. I set up a little project for myself this weekend: how could I use Drupal to put … Continue reading
Daily Links for September 4, 2009
Virtual Worlds Avatar Reality’s Blue Mars goes public beta The public beta of Blue Mars is starting. See Not Possible IRL and Chapter & Metaverse. I am collecting interesting BM links here: Blue Mars coverage. As one of the few … Continue reading
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The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
More thoughts on using WordPress for antisocial bookmarks
Several weeks ago I mentioned that I had stopped using Diigo for saving and then posting digests of links into this blog. Long before that, I had stopped using delicious for that functionality and switched to Diigo. The reasons I … Continue reading
Some widescreen wallpapers
I’ve put up a page of some widescreen wallpapers (or screen backgrounds) from some of my photos, many of which have appeared in the blog. If you click a thumbnail on the page you’ll get the full 1680×1050 image, suitable … Continue reading
Ten observations on five years of blogging
The end of August is filled with anniversaries of various kinds for me. Some are happy, such as birthdays, and some not so happy, such as deaths in the family. Yesterday was a good anniversary and I celebrated five years … Continue reading
Google still beating Bing, by a lot, plus other number games
Yesterday I was reading the article “Surprise: Open-Source Users Prefer Google to Microsoft Bing” by Clint Boulton. In it, Clint talks about Chitka ad network’s analysis of their traffic from search engines: The ad network compared the operating system and … Continue reading
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Daily Links for August 24, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Get out the Vote: 2009 Open Source CMS Award CMS Report / Bryan Ruby “There are only about three weeks left to nominate your favorite open source content management system for Packt Publishing’s 2009 Open Source CMS Award. … Continue reading
Aftermath of site reconstruction: a few more nits
Ten days ago I documented how my hosting provider deleted the wrong account and wiped sutor.com and some other sites I own. I had backups for all the files and got most everything running within a few hours, but it … Continue reading
Using WordPress or Drupal as a social bookmarking service (?)
I don’t know how to do this. I don’t want to add little icons or buttons at the ends of posts so that you can link to them via delicious or diigo or something else. I have those. What I … Continue reading
How to dismantle a website
Through the years I’ve done several websites, both for me as well as my wife. Mine are mostly all grouped under one account and my wife’s under another. Several days ago we decided that we would not renew one of … Continue reading
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The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
Some recent site stats
It’s been a while, but from time to time I publish some stats on how sutor.com is being accessed, courtesy of Google Analytics. In a nutshell: a lot of Firefox, a lot of Windows, respectable Linux, and Chrome is now … Continue reading
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The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
Upgrade Saturday
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. It was raining pretty hard this morning, so I had to delay some of my plans for outside work. Instead, I turned to doing some … Continue reading
Monthly disclaimer
The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
Monthly disclaimer
The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
