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Slight design update

Sunday 3rd September 2006, 14:52

I’ve now made some slight changes to the design and layout. All the graphics have been exchanges for new ones. I decided to take the golden-framing slightly further and also to change to one of my own photos on top. This time featuring my very own Saab 9-3 Aero SportSedan in it’s Laser Red coloring.
I’m [...]

Wordpress - File Upload Problems

Saturday 2nd September 2006, 0:49

When configuring Wordpress to support file uploads I ran into a tricky issue. The server responded with:
The uploaded file could not be moved to .
The message above is displayed if there is a problem uploading or using the uploaded file, this is normally associated with security issues, such as the user that the webserver is [...]

First draft layout done.

Sunday 13th August 2006, 15:39

Now the first draft of the blog layout is done. Been quite a while since I worked with design, layout and photoshop. But it’s still there somewhere since my prior days messing around with logos and other stuff.
I was a member in one of the online computer artgroups, iCE for a while, but that was [...]

Wordpress performance optimization

Sunday 13th August 2006, 0:11

While investigating I found this link regarding wordpress performance.
No clear solutions were presented however the major culprit was identified as preg_replace, which is one of the most heavyweight functions available in PHP. Usually such calls can be changed into for example str_replace or something similar which runs much faster than the “regular-expression string replace”.
This might [...]