I think every geek that ever worked with enterprise technologies can sign .

Sometimes things goes wrong and you do not know what to do. Your Visual Studio is not loading or failing loading some components. It happened to me many times and there was always some trick how to fix it. If you are experiencing problems, probably due to some Visual Studio dependency like template or component, that is displayed on your designer toolbox, there is simple hack how repair it. Just run Visual Studio from command prompt with following arguments:

devenv /resetskippkgs

Well intelligent topic indeed But seriously, I was quite surprised by some headline on some web developer site. It was about how to do tables without tables.. yes it just sounds strange. Well there was a full tutorial about creating table without using table element, just using div elements. I did not get it! It is like… creating design with tables.

After very long time (yeah it is years now ) I finally get some time or energy (maybe it is because of  end of winter) and decided to do something wing my web. I have a lot of work on other one websites, but time is ticking and my web is still well… like from previous century. From web technologies/standards point of view. So I started on redesign (but not visual) of my WordPress theme. It will look exactly same as current one, but it will load quickly and generally will be more cleaner (I hope! . There will be also some new stuff, but I do not want to show all surprises now, because new theme is not ready as you can see.

I recently got bored from updating my and friends WordPress sites. It is really boring to backup old installation, backup database (you can skip these steps, but if something goes wrong… ) and upload new installation. Be careful not to override custom files, etc. And finally run update script.

Well it is not that bad if you have only couple of WordPress installations, but I have a dozens… maybe two or three dozens. So I asked myself couple of times ago, how to automate it… It was not enough time.. or enough WordPress installations. But time has come and it is close to be ready in beta version.

If do not know Erlang already, you should take a look at it. It is very interesting programming language and it is very addictive from my point of view .  I started to play with Erlang about two years ago. Later I bought Joe’s great book. To be short. My journey with Erlang started with shock from all this functional stuff, but after some time I realized, that I started to love it (and missing it while writing an imperative code). OK enough…

Yes, yes I like the way Douglas Crockford talks about AJAX and JavaScript. Especially his last talk about AJAX Performance. I think that it is essential for every web developer to see/read this presentation.