Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
This is just a quick, minimal list of what firefox extensions I install for use in my day to day Web Development work. While some of the extensions may not be related to Web Development, they could be seen as essential convenience extensions.
Here’s the top ten in the order of how I install them (I’m not going to do a countdown as it’s so very “the late show with David Letterman”) on a brand new installation of Firefox on Ubuntu, Windows, Fedora or any other operating System that supports Firefox.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
As I was looking at shrinking the CSS and JavaScript files DevScripts from 60+kb and 70+kb respectively, I found a couple of helpful of good tools to keep handy when you’re dropping your projects into production.
To compress javascript I used the Code and Coffee online JavaScript compression/encoding tool, and for cleaning up the CSS, I used CleanCSS which was sent to me by a former colleague.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
When I first moved to linux I had become addicted to keeping my distro updated and so I found myself typing and retyping
$ sudo aptitude update
password:
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
At least once a day. Having read about shell scripts, I thought I’d try my hand at putting this into a shell script which, if you don’t already know, is linux’ more powerful answer to the Windows batch file.
So that’s what I did, and here’s how I did it.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Well, I’ve been playing around with Xubuntu Linux for a while now and I have been making extensive use of SSH. If you haven’t heard of SSH yet, here’s a quick rundown from wikipedia:
SSH is typically used to log into a remote machine and execute commands, but it also supports tunneling, forwarding arbitrary TCP ports and X11 connections; it can transfer files using the associated SFTP or SCP protocols.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Coming from Windows a few months ago, one of the things I took for granted was the backspace key being a shortcut key for the back button on my web browser - Firefox.
Once I shifted over to Ubuntu, this shortcut was missing from a default installation. If you want to replicate how the Firefox web browser on Windows has mapped the backspace key to go back a page on linux based systems, do the following:
- Open up firefox
- In the address bar, type about:config *this should give you a payload of preferences going down the page*
- Once this happens, enter the word “backspace” in the filter field, this should narrow your entry to one that says browser.backspace_action.
- Double click on the entry and change the value to 0 instead of 1.
The change should be immediate, so if you now press the [Backspace] key, it functions as a back button. I must have done this a several times when I was installing and reinstalling distributions as I messed around with my installations, but kept forgetting how to do it. :)
So this is more a quick note than any ground breaking hack.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Screw this, I’m going .Net!!! … As in http://www.rvdavid.net that is. Due to a mishap which resulted in my domain name being held hostage by my old host 2mhost, I’ve decided to forget about the .com domain and shift to .net!
It’s been a dark couple of weeks, but now that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and the dust has settled, what emerges from the ashes is the my new domain rvdavid.net. It’s a long story but I’ll tell the tale for those who want to read. Continue on to quickly review the way that 2mhost, the cheap web hosting company, services with customers.
update: I noticed that they have added a “why am I seeing this website?” link which is a mailto link to enom’s whois-help.info. Just so it’s known, my gripe is not because my domain has expired. What makes this thing sour for me is that 2mhost had/is deliberately ignoring my attempts to contact them to achieve the resolution that I as a once paying customer deserve. - At the time, I coudln’t access the rvdavid.com domain through enom since 2mhost is the registered reseller - no other routes to take aside from dealing with 2mhost directly - who don’t answer my emails - am I asking them to bend over backwards? no way! but ffs guys, respond to emails.
You had no problems replying to emails when I was a brand new sale! anyway… the story goes…
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
There are times when you will need to force a database upgrade in Wordpress, unfortunately, this did not really solve my problem of fixing “WordPress database error: [Table ‘mydatabase.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]” (see this post for the solution), but for those who may need to “force” an upgrade, this is how you do it.
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
“WordPress database error: [Table ‘mydatabase.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]”
Recently, I’ve started receiving the above error message after I created my posts. A little unnerving, but it seemed to be alright. The site was running fine aside from the errors.
After trying to force an upgrade of my Wordpress Database - which did not work, I looked around a little more and apparently, the following tables have been removed from WordPress in it’s latest version 2.3:
- post2cat
- link2cat
- categories
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