I’m a fan of Batcache, the Memcached-based WordPress full-page cache solution, but I’ve discovered that it ignores the content-type header set when the page is initially generated and re-sends all content with content-type: text/html. I posted a note about this at the WordPress support forums, but then I realized what the problem was: apache_response_headers() doesn’t [...]

Posted April 22, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: batcache, caching, fix, memcached, wordpress, workaround. 3 Comments.

MySQL has some powerful, and perhaps underused spatial extensions, but the most interesting functions are still unimplemented: “Note: Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions…”
Among those as-yet unimplemented functions is DISTANCE(). Alternatives can be found here and here, though neither is clean or simple. I wonder if a simple MBRContains() is good enough, though…

Posted June 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: distance, geolocation, mysql, MySQL spatial functions, spatial functions, unimplemented, workaround. One Comment.

I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet’s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable [...]

Posted April 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: akismet, recheck, spam, workaround. Be the first one.

It’s been a problem we’ve struggled with here for much longer than we should have, and it took a hotshot new guy in desktop support to show us the answer. But if you know the right magic, you can add a printer to Windows XP and make it available to all users.
See, if you add [...]

Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: add a printer, broken, network printers, printers, user permissions, users, win xp, windows, windows xp, workaround, xp, xp user permissions. 13 Comments.

It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following:

How To Create – Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed;
doxdesk.com: software: fixed.js
Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer

The DoxDesk solution looks promising and simple, but I think bugs elsewhere in my layout are preventing it from working. It’s time [...]

Posted September 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: bugs, css, css support, doxdesk, ie, ie bug, ie bugs, ie css bug, internet exploder, internet explorer, position fixed, workaround. One Comment.