Configuring Texmaker USB With MiKTeX Portable

by | Jan 12, 2010 | Geekery

Note: this article was last updated on December 30, 2019, for users of Windows 10 only. Your mileage may vary with other versions of Windows. I’ve had a number of requests to update my tutorial for installing a portable version of for current versions of both...

Excluding Page IDs from a Custom Query

by | Dec 14, 2009 | WordPress

Available on the DailyBlogTips website is a theme called StudioPress_Red. The theme uses a custom query to list the pages in the site navigation while applying a ‘current page’ class for styling the nav bar. The navigation code sets up a nav scheme with...

Bulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments

by | Dec 5, 2009 | WordPress

I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing...

Fallen Out of Favor: AVG

by | Dec 4, 2009 | Geekery

Once upon a time, AVG was one of the best free anti-virus programs available. It was fast, thorough, and had a small footprint. Somewhere around version 7 or 8, however, AVG took a turn for the worst — that is to say, it started to turn into what is...