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Icy Dock MB622US-2S RAID SATA Enclosure

July 5, 2009

Hard drives. From my first exciting 20MB drive to the 1TB beast now keeping my backups. And where you have drives you surely have drive enclosures. Here I'll be looking at the shiny silver and white Icy Dock MB662 RAID enclosure.

MB662

The MB662 is not a complicated NAS storage system. It has no web server, no iTunes software, no ethernet port or media server. It does however have a couple of flashing blue lights and this list of features:

  • Supports 2x3.5" SATA I/II drives
  • Up to 4TB capacity
  • USB 2.0 + eSATA (Silicon Image 5744 chipset)
  • Hardware RAID with six settings
  • No software required
  • Screwless design
  • 40mm adjustable speed fan
  • Hot swappable
  • Compatible with Windows and Mac
  • Supplied with USB and eSATA cables
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    Guangzhou Theme - WordPress and bbPress

    June 15, 2009

    So finally, after an extended development period and many people asking 'are you ever releasing it', I've released the theme files for the Guangzhou WordPress and bbPress theme.

    As I say elsewhere:

    Guangzhou is a two-column fixed width theme for both WordPress and bbPress. It is highly configurable, with two widget areas (sidebar and bottom), as well as customisable skins and many other options. It supports threaded and paged comments, making for very flexible discussion pages, as well as separating pings and trackbacks from comments - essential to keep the flow of conversation consistent.

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    A Case of a Weak Escape

    June 12, 2009

    All of my plugins should now be WordPress 2.8 compatible. For the majority of them the only issues involved were based on the use of the WordPress SQL escaping function. Previously I was calling this statically:

    wpdb::escape

    A bad habit I probably picked up from somewhere back in the WordPress 1.5 days that has stuck around. In WordPress 2.8 this function no longer works statically. The simple fix is to change it into:

    $wpdb->escape

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    All About Email

    June 3, 2009

    I've been doing a bit of work recently for Automattic, culminating in Post by Email. If you've not seen it yet it's a nifty way of publishing a post to WordPress.com by sending an email. Text and attachments are all converted into a WordPress post, and everything works just as if you'd typed it into a browser. All told a very quick and simple way of publishing.

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    Guangzhou Theme

    May 4, 2009

    I've had a lot of queries about the theme I'm using on this site and I've so far answered that it's a work-in-development and not quite ready yet. I've finally spent some time cleaning it up and before making it publicly available I thought it wise to give it a quick testing cycle. As such, if anyone wants to beta test the Guangzhou theme then drop me a line and I'll send it on over.

    The theme requires WordPress 2.7 or 2.8, and there's sister theme for bbPress 1.0 (alpha). You will also need a login to this site so I can give you access to the private bug tracker. While the theme has been in use for the better part of year it has been targeted at my own requirements and I'm sure that there will be some changes needed to open it up. Saying that, it is very customisable and allows very tight integration between WordPress and bbPress, as well as Sniplets. It's fully localised, and if you use a plugin like WP Minify then it will also seamlessly allow you to reduce CSS and JavaScript overheads to a minimum.

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