May 2010
4 posts
Untidy beds may keep us healthy - BBC →
Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.
Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.
Dunning–Kruger Effect →
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.” The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast, the highly skilled underrate their...
How to convert email addresses into name, age,... →
Save your email list as a CSV file (just comma separate those email addresses). Upload this file to your facebook account as if you wanted to add them as friends. Voila, facebook will give you all the profiles of all those users (in my test, about 80% of my email lists have facebook profiles). Now, click through each profile, and because of the new default facebook settings, which makes all...
Install Wordpress in SVN using svn:externals
Note: This post requires working knowledge of SVN
Goals
Keep a complete Wordpress install in your SVN
Have the Wordpress core files checked out from their SVN
Have as many plugins as possible checked out from their SVN
Still provide versioning of your custom themes/plugins
Other Methods
Copying/exporting the Wordpress files into your SVN
Upgrading requires manually copying all the files...