English Mike

All Hail!

English Mike — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:05:28 +0000

Well, it’s raining cats and dogs here at the moment, but that’s an improvement over what was happening just a few minutes ago: Yes, the golf ball is the smallest item in the picture.

Stranger on the Doorstep

English Mike — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:41:38 +0000

A very strange thing happened this afternoon. I was just sitting at home with my parents, who are over from the UK for their annual visit, when my Dad noticed someone at the front door. I opened it to find a youngish Asian woman standing there with a letter in hand. With her head down, More >

AZIndex is Moving

English Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:34:04 +0000

This will be the last AZIndex-related post on my personal blog at englishmike.net. Since Christmas, AZIndex has all but taken over this blog, which is fine, but a bit of a bore for those who are not interested in the plugin, or WordPress even. I was also having problems figuring out how to carve out More >

AZIndex 0.8.0 Released

English Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:59:01 +0000

AZIndex v0.8.0 has been released and includes several substantial upgrades, but the one most people are waiting for is the ability to sort posts by tag and category names. Yes, even if a post has gazillions of tags, it will appear a gazillion times in the index, if you select tags as your headings. [WARNING: I More >

Coming Soon: AZIndex v0.8.0:With helpings of tags and dollops of categories!

English Mike — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:48:10 +0000

AZIndex is about to become even more useful! In a couple of days I will be releasing AZIndex v0.8.0, which includes several substantial upgrades, but the one most people are waiting for is the ability to sort posts by tag and category names. Yes, even if a post has gazillions of tags, it will appear More >

AZIndex v0.7.6 Released

English Mike — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:29:51 +0000

Well, I didn’t see that one coming. A silly bug in WordPress 2.7.1 that hit the streets yesterday broke indexes where you have the “ignore characters” option set, and possibly other things as well, if you were running on a server that still uses PHP4. (By the way, if you did see the problem, it’s More >

AZIndex v0.8.0 Teaser

English Mike — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:02:57 +0000

Well, almost a full day has passed since I put out AZIndex 0.7.5 and no reports of any problems, so far, touch (knock on) wood. I won’t be putting out another version for a week or so, but I thought I would tease you with a bit of information I know that plenty of people More >

AZIndex v0.7.5 Released

English Mike — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:13:26 +0000

I have just uploaded AZIndex v0.7.5 to the WordPress Plugin Directory, so it should be available for download shortly. This is mostly a maintenance release, and I have been working out some of the smaller kinks and issues with the plugin. There should be no issues with upgrading from 0.7.4. Here is a list of the More >

WordPress Quick Tips #5:Speeding Up Your Settings Page Tweaks

English Mike — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:39:23 +0000

Well, I haven’t done one of these in a while, and the last comment on the previous WordPress Quick Tips #4 was a congratulatory message on my wonderful tutorial on colon cleansing. Ah well… But there is one very quick tip I want to pass on (there used to be two, but just discovered that WordPress More >

Coming Soon: AZIndex 0.7.5

English Mike — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:37:22 +0000

I will be releasing AZIndex version 0.7.5 within the next couple of days. This is a minor bug-fix release, focusing on a few layout issues and continuing to resolve some of the national language support problems. There is still more work left to be done to get the national language support completely right with AZIndex, More >