The latest version of Wordpress became available last night, and it looks to be a pretty major release.

Probably the biggest feature in it is that it supports tags without any additional plugins required. I had been planning on writing an article on Ultimate Tag Warrior, the tagging plugin I’ve been using, but its author retired it a while back because of the new tagging support upcoming in Wordpress 2.3. The new release supports importing tag info from several previous tagging plugins.

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Love it or hate it… well… does anyone really love Internet Explorer?

But you have to live with it, at least if you’re doing web development, because it’s necessary to test against it. It’s so buggy that many people code first against it, make their site work on it (given that it has the bulk of the browser market share) and then try to get their site working with other, less buggy, more standards-compliant browsers without breaking their Internet Explorer compatibility.

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I needed to write a query using DBIx::Class tonight that would return rows where a column wasn’t null. The first couple of ways I tried to didn’t work - here’s how to do it:

$result = $schema->resultset('RESULTSET')->search({ column => { '!=' => undef }});

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Blue Forest Blog is now running on Dreamhost. It was running on a server shared with a couple of other projects, and in order to reduce the memory footprint on the server I decided to move it elsewhere. Dreamhost is well-regarded and offered a good environment and excellent price for hosting it, so I decided to take it there. Moving it required only about 10 minutes of work and downtime. If you tried to access it during the move, I apologize for its unavailability.

I’ve also moved Shiny Things over to Dreamhost. And I tried moving the Apocalypse Blog as well but messed something up (it was me, not them) and will try again in a day or two.

I’ll post later about my experiences using Dreamhost. So far it’s been very positive and easy.

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Right now I have enough work to do on uvfood.com without adding iPhone support that only I would use, so I will (reluctantly) wait to work on an iPhone interface to it.

In the meantime, I’m going to stash some iPhone-related links here.

• Via: Ajaxian » iUI gets even better: cleanup and features
• Make your content look good on the iPhone - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Via: Ajaxian » Firebug for iPhone

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