Chris Fay & Jennie Fay’s Webportal

I recently discovered that Craigslist’s rss feeds leave much to be desired in terms of well formed xml. A large portion of the AdRavage back-end magic works by parsing the rss results of searches, and the bulk of this is achieved through Magpie RSS. Unfortunately, when returned feeds contain invalid encoding or have structural issues [...]

AdRavage.com is released!
As some of you already know, I’ve been working on a site that lets you automate searching on websites such as Craigslist. I recently needed to purchase a vehicle and was repeatedly beaten to the punch by others who were able to monitor the ads much closer than I. AdRavage lets you create [...]

I recently found that somehow a large number of my posts where completely missing from wp_term_relationships, which is responsible for mapping posts to their appropriate categories in version 2.6.1.
I think this happened after upgrading a few versions back, but had never actively used categories until now. All of my posts should have been uncategorized by [...]

I noticed recently that my Wordpress data had some funky characters in almost every post:
Examples:
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After browsing through the posts it looks like those characters represent things like quotations, dashes and double periods. I read through various forums that said this is caused due to the encoding and collation, however after following the recommendations of sites [...]