Michael S. Clark

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress.
Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range.
That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL to operate. [...]

Under usual circumstances, hosting WordPress on IIS7 would not normally allow permalinks to be used. There are some commercial solutions, including the ISAPI_Rewrite module (which I couldn’t get to work).
Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any POSTed [...]

I’ve added PicLens support to all of my galleries.
The required RSS feed is dynamically generated using PHP as are the thumbnails so you would only have to provide a gallery of images.
I’ve zipped up the code here.

I recently signed up for Google Analytics and added my sites and the sites created and hosted by the company I work for.
The WordPress plugin I chose is this one by Semiologic.
A very valuable tool if you’re interested in site usage statistics.

I spotted Gary’s post about the next beta release of Windows Live Writer and thought I’d give it a try, since the other one worked well.
Upon launch, it detected all of my previous settings so I went to edit the settings for each of my blogs.
I clicked Weblog -> Edit Weblog Settings… -> Update Account [...]