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First thing’s first; it works! The next most important thing; it was a very painless process. The steps are pretty easy especially if you’ve upgraded WP before. Essentially the steps are as follows:

1. Disable all installed plugins
2. Grab the latest WordPress build; extract the contents; replace the older files on your server (or you can do this painlessly via SSH)
3. Run the upgrade script (usually at http://yourwebsite/wp-admin/upgrade.php) and wait for a couple of seconds or minutes; depending on the size of your current database
4. Login to the wp-admin page and reactivate your plugins one by one; make sure you open another tab to preview your blog while doing this, just to see if there are any complications
5. If everything goes well, it’s time to celebrate!

Please note that there’s a new configuration called SECRET_KEY in WP 2.5’s wp-config.php file. Just set it to some random string as shown below:

define('SECRET_KEY', 'lkjdfhU(H*H8h9uHF8U767f65df56t&^t^&th(jhYT6FYHBUIy*b*u3R'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

The secret key should include upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. After that you need to re-login to the admin panel.

The ShareThis plugin is probably among the most popular ones for WordPress. It can be seen literally everywhere! I got on the ShareThis bandwagon since version 1.4 was released. Although I love the idea behind ShareThis, there is one particular thing that I dislike about it.

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Anyone with an interest for making money online would probably have heard of affiliate marketing. The most popular affiliate marketing programs commonly use the PPC model. PPC programs, as its name implies, pay publishers for every click that sends a visitor to an advertiser’s web page. The most popular PPC program would be Google AdSense.

However, there are affiliate programs beyond PPC including; Pay Per Lead (you get paid when you introduce a new customer to an advertiser), Pay Per Sale (you get paid a percentage for a purchase done by your referral) and Pay Per Action (you get paid when your referral performs a specific action; eg. filling out and submitting a form). Believe it or not, these programs typically pay much more than PPC!

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One category of projects that I find myself engaging most often is web development. From simple one page prototypes to a full blown web application, the fundamentals remain the same regardless of the size of each undertaking.

In this post, I would like to share some tools I find useful when constructing my projects. Who knows, they might be beneficial for your next web development projects too!

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I was in the midst of a bloghopping session and found a link to The Masked Millionaire. Now, before you think that this must be one of those irritating “make money online” blogs, I’m happy to tell you that it’s not.

The person behind The Masked Millionaire claims that he recently won just under $350 million in a lottery draw. Wow, that’s over a third of a billion US dollars! He’s also going to blog about his life as a freshly minted multi-millionaire.

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