Tag Archives: wordpress

“Fix”ing WordPress database tables

Posted on February 6, 2010 by cdn

After restoring tables from a WP mu backup (an incomplete one as it turned out) various issues presented themselves, not least an inability to submit posts (HTTP 500 not informative). A little searching revealed a likely cause (http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19116): missing auto_increment … Continue reading →

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Moo!

Posted on February 2, 2010 by cdn

This blog and shopping.chrs.nl are now running as sub-blogs of a WordPress MU install, if there’s anything wonky going on here, that’s why. Talking of moo; moo.com ( UK | US ) do very nice printing.

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Vanity: A “no, this blog isn’t just about shorturls” post on shorturls

Posted on January 30, 2010 by cdn

Last Saturday, I woke up with a seemingly brilliant idea, a dot-st domain name for use by my online postage half-site Print My Postage, mypo.st was subsequently registered. However, this isn’t about that; I was on skype telling Brian (King) … Continue reading →

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Migrants

Posted on November 1, 2009 by cdn

This [short] blog post should be coming to you from a Shared Accelerator at Joyent running Solaris; rather than the obsolescent FreeBSD server it used to be served from … there was no rush for a Golden Ticket – let … Continue reading →

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la petite url 1.5.1

Posted on September 25, 2009 by cdn

Seems changes like mine have ended up in la petite url, github didn’t have them last time I looked, it was still at 1.5…

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Am I a git?

Posted on August 28, 2009 by cdn

http://github.com/cdn/la-petite-url/tree/281f3876a1008e06da9ffe6e25986c7b718eea6d forked la-petite-url slightly… Note to self: $ git commit -a tends to update the remote files better than just $ git commit

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Upgraded la petite url

Posted on August 28, 2009 by cdn

1.06 up to 1.5 doesn’t go : ) It now has the features I was hacking in: alternative domain name, the other auto–discovery <link /> Just need to fix the Twitter Tools plugin add–on to use appropriate function call(s)

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Twitter, can you hear me?

Posted on August 25, 2009 by cdn

Upgrade of Twitter Blog plug-in means rewriting all the hacks – silly. Will have to use Twitter Tools instead; at least then I can add a filter* to pull in the “la petite url”–generated stub when posts get tweeted. * … Continue reading →

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Short Links, IDNs (and WordPress)

Posted on August 23, 2009 by cdn

Having been caught up in the wheels of the bandwagon, I’ve been playing with short link generators that you self–host. Disconnected thoughts: been playing with short url technologies, WordPress and the inevitable short domain names, IDNs that look cool / … Continue reading →

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