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WordPress 3.3 Admin Bar: Make “+New” Default to New Page Instead of New Post
Some of my clients are using their WordPress installs with pages only, i.e. without any posts, and with comments turned off completely. This is often referred to as "WordPress as a CMS". To free the...
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Kosmos electronic X3000 meets Arduino Uno
I found an Arduino Uno under the X-mas tree: I'm still waiting for my Ethernet Shield to ship. In the meantime I wanted to get started with some of the "simple" stuff like controlling single LEDs,...
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On Webduino, a Web Server Library for the Arduino Platform, and on favicon.ico
As reported earlier I had been given an Arduino Uno. I subsequently received my Ethernet Shield to hook the board up to the network. I'm clearly heading towards the Internet of things... Although I am...
View ArticleWebduino now with support for HTTP Basic access authentication
Webduino, the web server library for Arduino, now supports HTTP Basic access authentication. You can download a .zip file of the latest version from GitHub. (Note: The download link does not point to a...
View ArticleSubversion post-commit hook E-mail report script that sends the diff as an...
I'm using the post-commit hook to send out E-mail notifications when changes are committed to Subversion repositories. If you search the web you'll find a ton of scripts in various languages for this...
View ArticleNagios Plugin to check a Subversion Working Copy for Modifications
I use revision control systems for almost all of my software development, deployment, and server configuration. When using Subversion there is, technically, no difference between a working copy on my...
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New WordPress Plugin: Smart Quotes
There is a nifty function in WordPress that automagically turns so-called "straight" or "dumb" quotes into so-called "smart" or "curly" quotes. (Look at the last sentence closely: There's a difference...
View Article3.19 – The Web Hosting Bandwidth Constant
In case you've ever wondered what the monthly traffic allowance in your web hosting plan means in bandwidth, here's an easy-to-remember number: 3.19 (month kbit) / (sec GB) – I shall call this the...
View ArticleExcel: Truncate Text at Last Slash
Let's assume you have a value in cell E2 that has several components separated by slashes, e.g. a file path. You may find yourself in the position that you need to truncate the value at the last slash,...
View Article/bin/rm: Argument list too long
This isn't really new, but it's sure worth knowing... The fact that there's a 128K buffer used to pass arguments to child processes in the Linux Kernel can have the following effect on shell external...
View ArticleWordPress plugin updated: Smart Quotes (0.4)
There is a nifty function in WordPress that automagically turns so-called "straight" or "dumb" quotes into so-called "smart" or "curly" quotes. (Look at the last sentence closely: There's a difference...
View ArticleHowto Install Nagios4 on Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish
Tweet sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nagios4 sudo a2enmod auth_digest authz_groupfile sudo service apache2 restart
View ArticleHowto get the total size of each database in MySQL/MariaDB
From: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/mysql/determining-the-size-of-mysql-databases-and-tablesTweet SELECT table_schema AS "Database", ROUND(SUM(data_length+index_length)/1024/1024,2) AS...
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