I hate vi. (aka Changing your default crontab editor)

May 7th, 2008 by Kieran
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I’m trekking into the unknown - CentOS, but thats off topic. For some reason, even the latest version stuck in 1982 - vi as the default editor for cron etc. Argh! I hate vi!


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WP-o-Matic fix for Wordpress 2.5

May 1st, 2008 by Kieran
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WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a easy by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you give it. Unfortunately, the latest release doesn’t work very well, by itself or on Wordpress 2.5. Watch out for my post on fixing Wordpress 2.5 issues.

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Find text within files

May 1st, 2008 by Kieran
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Stuck trying to find text within files on Linux?

cd /directory_tree_you_want_to_search
find . -type f -exec grep -l "string to find" {} \; -print

Easy!

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Composers

April 30th, 2008 by Kieran
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Composers.net - an i9000 Networks project that hosts a fantastic selection of community submitted content on musical composers has risen from Page Rank 4 to Page Rank 5. Also, Google is returning it as the 5th result when searching for composers. Nice!

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Page Rank 4!

April 30th, 2008 by Kieran
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I’m now Page Rank 4 :)

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.htaccess redirect based on requested domain

April 28th, 2008 by Kieran
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Imagine you have a selection of domain names that point to the same site, are some of those domains specific to certain areas of your site?

Here’s how I redirect a domain name to a specific area on a site

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?cubecartexperts\.co.uk
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.i9000networks.com/landing-page/cubecart-experts/ [L]

You’ll also need the domain set in your virtualhost config like this

ServerName www.i9000networks.com
ServerAlias www.cubecartexperts.co.uk
ServerAlias cubecartexperts.co.uk

It is a much more helpful way of helping your users navigate your site.

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Wordpress Suicide

April 25th, 2008 by Kieran
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Wordpress Suicide is a fun, yet really useful plugin. I had a requirement to clean out a WP 2.5 blog because a client had really screwed up with the taxonomy directly in the database. I didn’t want to erase the entire blog because that’d be too easy. I stumbled over Wordpress Suicide and had great fun using it. It makes clearing a blog of all it’s life quite enjoyable!

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Wordpress Secret Key & Cookie Strength

April 24th, 2008 by Kieran
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There is a little known feature in Wordpress 2.5 called “Secret Key“. If you’re upgrading from a previous version you probably won’t even know this feature exists as it only appears in clean installs where you have a brand new wp-config.php.
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Crawl Rate Tracker and Wordpress 2.5 Manual Fix

April 22nd, 2008 by Kieran
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A quick update on people that need the Crawl Rate Tracker to work with Wordpress 2.5 - just create the table manually.


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Using rsync to maintain backups on Linux

April 22nd, 2008 by Kieran
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Following on from my previous article, regarding Setting up and using NFS on Ubuntu, here’s how I keep backups for quite a few clients.

On a particular site I maintain a single backup server that several clients backup to on a nightly basis.

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