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WordPress 3.0: Good News / Bad News

A new version of WordPress was released recently. No surprise there as it’s one software project that seems to be a constant hive of activity and updates are frequent.

But when I installed version 2.9 I decided to split it between one tech-based blog and one personal blog. To do this I added a second WordPress installation in a subdirectory of the current one and created some links between the two. Now it turns out that in the new WordPress 3.0 version you can have multiple blogs, just my luck!

Upgrading from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 with InnoDB

Recently I’ve been trying to upgrade the MySQL installation on my rather old 475MHz RedHat 9.0 test server. It’s one I’ve always kept free of RPMs and package management with the likes of yum, favouring building software from source instead.

It was MySQL 5.0′s lack of support of ‘DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS’ which started me off on this upgrade, because I use MYSQL Workbench and the latest version automatically inserts a drop if exists when applying changes to an existing trigger.

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