This morning I was greeted by a big upgrade button on my wordpress admin page. Clicking on it returned: WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_nickname' in 'field list'] What's worse, it also broke my blog, because all the plugins were turned off by default. Here's how I fixed it.

I recently came across a funny bug where I was executing an AJAX method and the response was empty. I check the server side and I know that my particular query is returning a result, but thanks to Firebug I can see it's failing in the browser. So there was something definitely amiss.

Recently Apple brought out the latest update to iTunes - with the promise of cool features: cover flow, gapless playback and other bits and bobs. Some users have reported bugs in the new version (I even spotted one†), but little did Andrew, an old school friend, realise that the biggest feature he would benefit from would [...]