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WordPress Password Resets via MySQL
I have not completed the switch away from WordPress completely, (as this site and the justCheckers site show). I might switch to using something like Django CMS or Wagtail. Unfortunately I have not had as much time as I’d like to, to work on Rookeries, my own Flask based CMS Still in the meantime, I…
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Resolving WordPress Login Issues after Domain Name Move
This week’s entry will be a short one, since I am in the middle of getting things organized, and preparing for launching my first ever product. (More about that on a later post.) One of the things that bite my recently, is that I was unable to login into one of my WordPress sites. For…
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Avoiding Blank PHP Responses after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, and php7.0-fpm
Earlier this week I finally made the plunge to upgrade my VPS to Ubuntu 16.04. With a minor hiccup surrounding supervisord (which I probably can avoid if I go the systemd route) not being enabled at boot, the upgrade was simple for both my WSGI and Node webapps. I can not say the same thing…
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A Clean Future
The future is white? Bob, the future has been white since the 60’s. – Autotainment, Big Ideas The future has been white for a long time, thanks to the likes of Stanley Kubrick and the folks at Apple. Thats why the theme I’m crafting for this website, is called “Clean Future”. I took the “Open…
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The Joys of Seamless Upgrades
Upgrades often is a naughty word in programming and system administration. When a system admin or programmer starts an upgrade, often it is with clenched teeth and an expectation something will break, explode or spontaneously combust. So congrats to the WordPress guys for releasing another seamless, non-breaking, and easy to do upgrade. And yes this…
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Drupal Dreams
I love my WordPress powered blog. For a blogging site, WordPress is the way to go. However there are site that require me to step beyond the paradigms of a blog. Back in the day, I used to hardcode all my sites using XHTML & PHP. I’d make them elegant, minimalistic and W3C compliant. I…
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8
I am continually amazed by the ease of working with WordPress. Not only do the themes and plugins just work, so does everything else. I upgraded my WordPress install to the latest and greatest 2.8 . Simple, clean and issue-less upgrade. This is how technology should work. Get out of the way and perform the…
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
I’ve blogging for a while now. This particular site and setup doesn’t suggest that I’ve been blogging since 2005. Of course nowadays, I blog more often than I did then. But the fact remains. I noticed this because when I imported my old Blogger blog to WordPress, I did a messy job of importing my…
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A Quest for Easy Multiblog Setup
One of the downside of sporting the ‘Y’ chromosone, is the tendency to setup new kit without reading instructions. In my case a similar thing happened with my sites. I bought a domain and hosting. Then I installed Drupal hearing all the wonderful things I heard about Drupal. What I didn’t do was research to…
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Blogging Update
As you may have noticed, I am back to blogging on a regular schedule. In fact this past week, I got a full five workdays all covered. And was no easy task. Now I’ll be the first to admit that not all of my blogs are actually written on a daily basis. Rather I am…