My Thoughts

Due to a move of my domain from one server to another, including a Apache 1.3 to Apache 2 upgrade, the site experienced some downtime last night.
My apologies, but as you can see everything is fine now.

Google Chrome in Linux doesn’t have a SSL certificate manager, it relies on the NSS Shared DB. In order to add SSL certificates to the database you will have to use the command line. I will explain how you can add the CAcert certificates and a very easy way to add self-signed certificates.
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I have decided to move my WordPress plugins to PHP 5.2 and no longer support PHP 4 per the next major release. There will be one exception and that is my AVH Extended Categories Widget plugin, as I will be releasing version 3.0 very soon and that version is still compatible with PHP 4 but will not be when I release the next major release.

PHP 5.2 was released 3 years ago and is pretty mature by now and besides that, PHP 4 has not been updated nor has it had security fixes since 2008-08-08. Should your hosting provider still offer PHP4 only it is time to find a new hosting provider.

A couple of weeks ago I changed the default browser on my Ubuntu Jaunty laptop from Firefox to Chrome. I had been using Chrome next to Firefox 3.6 for a while and I was willing to give it a shot for my every day browsing. Now that I have been usign it for a while I thought I would write up my experience, the good, the bad and, yes the cliché , the ugly.
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In the release notes of git 1.6.6 an important section was written about the upcoming version 1.7.0
I think it’s important enough to dedicate a separate article on it.
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