Archive for August, 2007

phpMyAdmin and UTF-8

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

When copying data over to the new host, I found that phpMyAdmin’s export/import function doesn’t like UTF-8. International characters get messed up in the transfer. Just thought I’d save some poor soul some time and say that if you run into this problem, just use mysqldump on the command line rather than trying to find […]

Dreamhost not so dreamy?

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

As you may know, userstyles.org has had uptime and performance problems in the past. Based on past discussions with Dreamhost, my current host, the problem seems to not be one of bandwidth, but of server resources to generate my dynamic pages.
Now, I don’t really think I’m doing anything too ridiculous when I generate pages, so […]

Sumo forum feedback becomes forum idea list

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Based on the feedback I’ve received, I’ve thrown together a list of features that I think (and hopefully you think) will make the sumo forums great. This isn’t finalized, so feel free to comment on that document or add any other ideas you may have.

Official Firefox support forums

Monday, August 13th, 2007

I’ve been contracted by Mozilla to help set up the forums for sumo, Mozilla’s upcoming official support offering. I’m quite excited by this, not only because I’m getting paid for something I’d do for free :), but also because my past experiences providing Firefox support have made me eager for a way to do things […]

Bug tracker

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

I’m losing track of all the things I’m supposed to do, so I’ve put up a bug tracker at bugs.userstyles.org. Feel free to report bugs on userstyles and Stylish in there. Before putting in crazy feature requests, it’s probably best to discuss it in the forum first.

Adventures in development - Web standards and Firefox extensions