Month: July 2007

  • Add Technorati tags to WordPress posts

    There are several WordPress plug-ins that allow to add Technorati tags at the end of your posts. In my experience with WordPress plug-ins, I tend to prefer the simpler ones for an elementary reason: usually reliability is inversely proportional to complexity 😉 On this basis I chose SimpleTags. SimpleTags allows to manage TAGS directly inside…

  • Dell XPS M1330 and ship date

    As I wrote in my first post, I’ve ordered a Dell XPS M1330 about a week ago (June, 29th). This is the configuration I chose: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300(2 Ghz, 4MB cache L2, FSB 800 Mhz) Windows Vista Business 3 years warranty NBD 13,3″LED display with webcam (on the Italian site you can’t choose…

  • Self made tag cloud for WordPress

    In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple tag cloud with WordPress categories and place it in your sidebar without using external plug-ins or widgets (you can read here an Italian article about the same argument). You can write the following code inside the sidebar.php file in your template, or create…

  • Here we go

    This is the first post on my brand new blog: Yet Another Tech Blog. My name is Francesco, I’m a 30 years old Italian guy and I work as a self employed IT consultant in the north of Italy: I provide hardware/software support to small business customers on Windows desktop platforms and I do a…