The first time I tried this the entire blog came crashing down. I decided I’d wait until a night when I had more time and that night didn’t come for another few months until tonight. This time I elected to follow an incremental upgrade approach by moving from 2.0 to 2.1, 2.1 to 2.2, 2.2 to 2.3 and so on and hitting the wp-admin/upgrade.php file after each upgrade had completed. Of course I was careful not to overwrite the wp-content folder. It worked great and I’m loving the new interface.
Archive for April, 2009
updated cnizz.com portfolio
Posted by chris on April 15th, 2009
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I’ve changed the layout of my portfolio section, implemented MooTools slimbox, and added three recent projects. Go ahead and check out the portfolio.
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using the geonames web service with php
Posted by chris on April 14th, 2009
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The GeoNames web service API, http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html, can be used to retrieve information on foreign countries such as postal code, city name, country code, longitude, and latitude. This information can come in very handy in variety of circumstances. I used the information obtained from the API to automate updating a table of countries with the postal code (just needed one in this instance) of every capital in the world.
First you will need to use cURL. I have written a simple cURL class:
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