Archive for August, 2009
A cost comparison between Microsoft and VMWare
Do you think that this could be a bit one sided? http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/5407fd97-c206-4f79-8daa-98a35c977cfe?td=rc-21644409-25
Wordpress – Directory has no index file
I recently had a problem where one of my pages was failing to load with an error stating that could not locate an index file. Current changes I had made obviously pointed something I had done but it took a while to figure out!!
The answer
I had created a page called Play which simply shows list [...]
World Wide Web is Yahoo !!!
Did you know that if you look up location for ‘World Wide Web’ using Google’s GEOcoder it points at Yahoo in Sunnyvale, CA !
See http://bit.ly/18REbw
Social Media updates could be your downfall
Its not aways the wisest of things to do to vent your anger and frustrations online. How To Lose a Job Via Facebook In 140 Characters or Less – http://bit.ly/4nhqK
Security flaw in Wordpress
Despite all the extra effort put in on security there is stilll a major hole, follow this link to see how it works and steps to fix it http://bit.ly/pLddU
Quickly add Google Map to website
Find out all the ways to add Google Maps to your website or blog. See http://bit.ly/5mccf
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Reset WordPress admin password?
Today I managed to lock myself out of local/development installation of my website. After digging around I found the answer . Need to run the following query against your Wordpress database:
UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here‘ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username“;
Obviously change the new_password_here and admin_username to correct values!
Future of Wordpress themes 2009
Interesting insight by leadign players into where they see Wordpress themes developing:
http://themeshaper.com/future-wordpress-themes-2009/
Wordpress Jquery Plugins
Jquery allows for impressive animations and interactions that are easily created and utilized in your Wordpress blog – http://tinyurl.com/cmckh5
Favourite RSS Feeds
These are my current favourite RSS feeds. They all provide inspiration, information and basically excellent content.
http://feedproxy.google.com/24thfloor – hongkiat.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/nettuts – nettus.com
http://rss1.smashingmagazine.com/feed/ – snashingmagine.com
http://www.thatwebguyblog.com/feed – thatwebguy.com
