Here’s how I set up WordPress to seamlessly use SSH, rather than FTP, for updates. Using this method, I never have to enter a password, never have to (S)FTP, never have to mess with file permissions. Like the WordPress Codex says, there are two ways to setup WordPress to use SSH: The SSH SFTP Updater […]
I’ve been running a Plex Media Server off on old laptop for more than a year now without a hiccup. A few years ago Jess came home with these decade old Dell laptops that her work was going to throw away, and I’ve just tinkered with them off and on. Initially, I tried to run […]
A user requests the ability to browse and insert links to nodes (pages) from the WYSIWYG editor, similar to how it works for uploaded files. A quick google search returns TinyMCE Node Picker which sounds perfect. Oh, wait … This module will de discontinued and replaced with Node Picker as soon as a stable release […]
Endeavoring to be more of a producer than a consumer, ran across Project Euler which looks to be low friction but somewhat useful and interesting. Unfortunately their register/login system is broken: Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/admin/domains/projecteuler.net/public_html/includes/login_preprocess.php on line 11 So I’ll keep track on my own blog I guess […]
Soldiering on with Aptana, fighting as I go, here’s how I was able to set up automatic synchronization between my project and a remote server accessed through a mounted/mapped drive. Set up your project Set up your remote preview server Set up an (S)FTP deployment connection, make sure you check “Automatically sync my changes” Go […]
At work we are stuck with Subversion 1.4 clients (cough, Dreamweaver, ahem), so any new IDE I try has to use the SVN 1.4 api and format. Every 6 months or so I like to test drive IDEs, but most new editors and IDEs long ago gave up support for SVN 1.4 (except for PHPStorm, […]
Playing around with Ruby, Rails, RefineryCMS… anything installed? ~ $ which ruby nope, ok… ~ $ sudo apt-get install ruby The following NEW packages will be installed: libreadline5 libruby1.8 ruby ruby1.8 hmm, ruby 1.8? let’s try to get the current version, 1.9.2 just for grins… ~ $ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.2-full nothing. hmmm, refinerycms.com suggests […]
The Dot Game is a wholehearted copy of the original SameGame, except for one difference. Both the original and the dot say you get a bonus for leaving fewer dots left at the end, but until now, that wasn’t true for my version. I just couldn’t figure out the bonus calculation. Well, it took me […]