The upgrade went great, spent about 10 minutes on everything. Here’s my version of a quick guide, assuming you have SSH access. Start off by disabling all your plugins through the wordpress administration panel and doing a complete backup (including database). Then load up your putty or whatever SSH client you are used to. My wordpress is running from /home/kovshenin/wordpress/ and here is...
Working in Web 2.0
Somebody on Twitter yesterday posted a link to UADDit with photos of workplaces in web 2.0 companies, such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Mozilla and others. I just couldn’t resist, so here they are:
The last.fm pictures are my favourite! The original post is at uaddit.com discussions.
Websites That Suck!
A couple of weeks ago I made a new friend on Twitter – Aaron, a web developer from Severna Park, MD. He posted a link to his new blog post on his website about websites that suck. I loved the idea and subscribed to his RSS feed. Yes, there are billions of webs out there that really suck, and I’m glad that Aaron’s getting them all in once place. Aaron describes the things done...
Gnome Keyboard Shortcuts
… and the Super key. I don’t know if everybody knew about this trick already, but it seems that Gnome has got this bug, that doesn’t let you bind keyboard shortcuts with the Super (windows key) combination, except the Super key itself (alone). Anyways, the work-around is using the Gnome Configuration Editor and just type in the combination in text. Browse to /apps/metacity/...
Wired News & Twitter
I’ve read an entry in the livejournal webdev community today – a link to a great blog post on Wired News about “the battle of the browsers”. Following the link I got onto the Wierd News Blogs website, and with a timeout of about 5 seconds I received a javascript popup message asking for my Twitter username and password. This looks like scam. Why the heck would a PR9 news...
PHP: Logger and Timer Snippets
Hey. I’ve just started writing my simplest classes for a new content management micro-system in php, and I’d like to share some moments with you. These classes will probably be good for php noobs out there struggling in the world of object-oriented programming – go for the basics. The Logger class is just a text logger with simple functionality good for logics debugging. The...
PHP: The User Class Snippet
Okay, this is gonna be fun. I just finished my own version of the User class in php. I know there are millions of others around, but I didn’t find one that would suit my project – they’re all too complicated and unflexible. I’ll start off by explaining some of the requirements and a couple of examples. I’ll introduce you to the class at the end. I had to slice the...
I'm on Friend Connect!
I’ve finally found some time to setup a Google Friend Connect profile for my website, it was pretty easy by the way, so you should create one as well. And if you do, make sure you connect to my profile. Oh, and I tweeted out my ICQ number and e-mail address yesterday to public. It took me around 20 seconds to realize I did that, and around 5 seconds to remove it. Question – should I...
PHP: More on Users
Still working on that User class I wrote about a couple of days ago and yeah, I’ve got some major changes, that increased the class usability and probably flexibility. I posted my thoughts in the comments for that post, and got some positive mail, ICQ and Twitter feedback on those ideas. The original comment said: Alright, I reconsidered the meta data storage concept, cause it’s not always...
TweetDeck & Seesmic Desktop on Fedora 10
Hey just got TweetDeck running on my Fedora 10 Laptop. It took me about 20 minutes to figure this out, I just had some permission issues (error 5100). Go get the latest Adobe Air from the official Adobe Air website and save it somewhere. Then you’ll have to chmod +x the .bin file to be able to execute it. Run it using your root account – that should install Adobe Air and some...