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After Two and a half years of blogging (mostly RANTS) with a “few” techie articles, I have decided it is time to stand up tall and be counted by the masses, to this end i have started a 2nd blog, siliconpizza.com

This New blog will be focussed on my warped view of technology , it’s use and abuse, news, discoveries etc etc and within my limited command of my mother tongue, the english language, it should present a professional picture of my life and the technology that infects it.

Don’t worry blog.species5618.net will continue to carry the usual and occasionaly amusesing personal views on life

WordPress 2.3.1 is now available. 2.3.1 is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series.

2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:

• Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
• Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
  their WordPress Address
• Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
• Link importer fixes

Get 2.3.1 from the download page and enjoy.

??TEST, TEST, upgrade seems to be Ok

Based on the information i found, and linked to here
I have Succesfully integrated TAGS and a TAGS cloud into my Themes

Pat myself on the back

Just upraded to Dexter (wordpress 2.3 ),

Test,Test,Test,Test,Test,Test,Test !!!

[update]
need to find new theme to support “tagging” or fix the one i have !!

the Info is here, now just need some time
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_tags

I have just spent several hours trying to setup wordpress MU 1.2.4 with LDAP in to a CORP Active Directory,

MU does what wordpress does best, it just worked
LDAP auth was fantasic,
but everynow and then i was experiancing a 30 secs slow page load

Well before some of you start shouting, what i now know are obvious things,
I eventually noticed, using a cool tool called ieHeaders, that the page load delay was exactly 30 seconds every time, so came to the conclusion this was a timeout rather than a random thing. After some head scratching I remembered that some of the admin pages on wordpress get data from wordpress.org on NEW features etc

Eureeka, give the PHP http client (snoopy) a proxy server to use and everyones a winner !

[update]
This was done with?? wordpress MU 1.2.4 , and LDAP plugin 1.2.0 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196841??against a WINDOWS AD / LDAP
The search and user DN need to be in this format OU=aaaa,OU=bbbb,DC=zzzz,DC=yyyy,DC=xxx
where the number number of OU fields and DC fiesl will vary depending on yoiu LDAP config

Following on from Outbreak of wordpress, it must be contagious, two things have developed

1. My humble internal install of wordpress has been gazumped for highlevel internal demos
2. I am now looking at wordpress MU with LDAP, for that enterprise, AD intragrated blogging solution

Mary had a little lamb
it’s fleece at white as snow
and every where that mary went
was a little pool of piss !

[UPDATE]

Seems to Work OK !

Just Migrated to NEW server with mySQL 4.1 etc

and the applied wordpress 2.1.2

and it works

Whoooo Hooooo

upgraded to 2.0.9 ,

test, test …………..

must look at Mysql 4. for goto 2.1.1