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I just found a nice tool to have several internet explorer versions running in parallel: the Internet Explorer Collection.

Feels like testing your site under Internet Explorer 1 ? Right, you don’t. But with this tool, you can.
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New Wordpress Plugin : Pixeline’s Email Protector, prevents spambots from harvesting any email addresses put in your wordpress post or pages.

Check it out and let me know if it works for you!

It happened me twice and maybe it happened to you (hence this post): i would install a plugin (like Relevanssi or Search Unleashed), which would break Wordpress or not function like i want it, desactivate it, at which point Wordpress goes berseck.
everytime i would edit or add a post or page, i would get this error message.

The best solution i 've had so far is to increase php memory limit to a high value. Not clean, i know, but it works.
So as not to destroy the fix whenever you upgrade Wordpress, put it in your wp-config.php file.

In the context of the website redesign of the School of Computer Graphic Design that i teach in, i had the need to display on the frontpage a link to the latest grandchild of a page. It didn't turn out as easy as i thought, but i somehow managed it. Here is how. Read the rest of this entry »

This quotes by Mitch Hedberg  strikes me as a good metaphor for graceful degradation / progressive enhancement.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

Mitch Hedberg (American comedian, 1968 - 2005)