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Hostgator just send me an email (I’m a customer) to make me know they programmed the foolish Black Friday of the last 8 years. They’re offering 80% discount on everything, from shared hosting to dedicated servers. As you may know reading this blog, I’m an happy customer of Hostgator. They’re hosting this blog and many others I [...]

Yesterday I was updating a Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid server version, and I discovered it is not more supported so the source list “points” to URLs no more valid to get packages and package list. In particular I was installing exim4. The source list entries were pointing to archive.ubuntu.com and securety.ubuntu.com (source list is /etc/apt/sources.list). To solve [...]

I’ve just released the version 2.1.3 of Newsletter Pro with an important fix about SMTP port. This issue starts from version 2.1.0, so every one using the versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 should update the plugin if using SMTP.

As you may know, ProBlogger is the blog of Darren Rowse. More than write about him, just do a search and you’ll find it’s interesting story about blogging and make money with a blog. Darren Rowse wrote a couple of blog to help new bloggers to move from newbie to professional. On November 2010 he [...]

A friend of mine claimed his (expensive!) Nokia N900 has a so low level audio while making normal calls that was rather complicated to understand what the caller says. He tried to move the level to its top without any appreciable result. Yesterday I was looking to that phone and noted that there is a [...]

On one of my Google Analytics profile, the statistics of November 2, 2010 are reporting a perfect ZERO! It seems a Google Analytics issues, as vaguely reported on http://www.google.com/analytics/status (I didn’t know about that Google Analytics status panel). If you are experiencing the same issue, just be patience our data seem safe. UPDATE: now the [...]

Apache Commons for Java are the most useful library (JAR) collection you can get for free from the big Java World. I use Apache commons in every (really every) my project. Not only, I every time insist with my younger colleagues to use those libraries and study their Javadoc to get the best out of [...]

In Italy, but may be its a world wide problem, many blog networks are appearing every day. Those networks are “bot networks”: they suck other site feeds, without permission, and create tons of posts. Three months ago a bot networks born and started to steal my wife blog posts of www.maguardaunpo.it. We didn’t notice it [...]

This version contains 4 character less than previous version. A user send me a little patch of a file causing some problems to feeds. I have not verified the bug, applied the patch and created a new version. That’s all, folks.

Announce: PHP 4 is no more support from its developers and every decent hosting provider has PHP 5 installed. Newsletter Pro won’t support PHP 4 on future releases, otherwise there is no way to use the PHP 5 features. So, for everyone interested in Newsletter Pro, check with your provider if it support PHP 5.