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A Year Later

Posted on March 17, 2011 by novak rogic

Actually, over a year since I last posted here. I guess I am not much of a blogger. Anyways, just checking in, I am not sure why, perhaps to lubricate those few rows in one of the thousands of mySql … Continue reading →

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WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner is…

Posted on September 29, 2009 by novak rogic

Godfrey’s  section widget! When we were designing the first version, I knew this is too good to be true. And then Godfrey took it to the yet another level! Congratulations to Godfrey and others from OLT who worked on this … Continue reading →

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about running large WP install

Posted on September 24, 2009 by novak rogic

Just during last week, two well-known edublog spaces, Jim Groom’s UMW blogs and Alan Levine’s CodDogBlog (both WP-based) experienced serious hiccups and in case of UMW blogs serious downtime. There are many to blame, from mindless spammers to the mighty … Continue reading →

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one, to bind them all…

Posted on August 31, 2009 by novak rogic

Constant Gardener, from Flickr. Being the most flexible and open of all web spaces, wiki can quickly become a messy hotchpotch of various pages written in variety of tones, driven by different needs and intended for miscellaneous audiences. And that’s … Continue reading →

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section widget

Posted on July 10, 2009 by novak rogic

It is not often that I feel completely pleased about the work that team I work with or myself have finished. There is always a bit of “well, this could be done better”, or “we should have…”. But after our … Continue reading →

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gimmie wiki!

Posted on March 2, 2009 by novak rogic

Enej Bajgorić created the plugin for republishing MediaWiki (or any HTML) pages within WP. For those who liked the idea, here are some good news: we are continuing development of this plugin for our culturepedia project. Here is the functionality … Continue reading →

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migrating a kiloblog: ubc goes from movabletype to wordpress

Posted on November 21, 2008 by novak rogic

We have been running Movable Type for over three years and for number of reasons (far better platform, CWL integration, the support overhead and availability of plugins, to name a few) decided to move to WordPress. Since last summer we … Continue reading →

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resolving “comment-goes-to-admin-not-author” wp issue

Posted on November 12, 2008 by novak rogic

We are planning the migration of our Movable-Type based websites to WordPress. While offering way nicer management interface and wealth of advanced controls, default WP installation still misses a few things that we took for granted in MT. Here is … Continue reading →

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here is the LaTeX for you

Posted on November 6, 2008 by novak rogic

A month ago, Scott has enabled WP LaTeX plugin for all those UBC scientists who know how to use it. One of those super creatures is my wife Sanja, who just happened to start using UBC blogs as her portfolio … Continue reading →

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please comment to test comments

Posted on November 6, 2008 by novak rogic

The forum-like tracking comments plugin, that I talked about earlier, is now live on this blog (thanks for the great work Enej!): see recent comment link above the header. It works, it is stable and it covers the basics that … Continue reading →

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