Gordaen's Blog

Every time I think I should get rid of my Ridiculing Stupidity category (it’s not nice to make fun of people/things), I see something else that demands attention. The most recent thing to catch my eye is this sort of “slogan” that Aquafresh is using:

I don’t kn ow if yu’ve herad the rumros, but aparntly thereis a backspace key on thek eyboard. I don’tbe lieve it myslf.

There is quite a bit that content owners (these are the people saying, “Put X on the site”) don’t know, which web developers (used in a very broad sense) often assume is common knowledge. This represents the difference in knowledge that developers have compared to normal users. In some cases, the users really [...]

I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and it mostly went smoothly, but now caching is broken. I tried everything I can think of, but it’s still not working. The pages are cached successfully, but the cached pages are never served. WP Super Cache considers them instantly expired (even cached pages [...]

Note: This post is part tree of a three part story called “Elbows.” For more information, see Elbows, An Introduction.
Like at any doctor’s office, I had to wait a while before seeing the doctor who was an Air Force captain. He had me remove the Rambo bandages from my elbows, a task not [...]