I wanted to split up my content in a neat and tidy way. I realised the easiest way to do this would be to split up my content by category.
Development
Writing about software development.
When Plugins Collide
When making a new post one day I came across a bug in my website. I created a new post, attached a featured image, and hit preview. I got a messed up page that had two copies of my featured image above the page content.
Improved Excerpts
The default excerpts in WordPress are, in my opinion, a bit crap. All images and subheadings are stripped out and it always stops in the middle of a sentence. It also ends in that “[…]” which I don’t li.
Optimising WordPress
I spent the better part of last week improving my blog, and I figured I would write about my experiences. WordPress is a great platform and I’m having fun working with it.
Lesson of the Week: MySQL bits are bigger than expected in C#
If you have a bit(1) in a MySQL table, guess what type it is converted to when you make a query using C#’s MySQL helper?
unsigned long
Yep, that’s right. The smallest possible type gets converted to the longest possible type when you make a query through c#.