Ajax Whois WordPress Plugin
January 29th, 2012
Ajax Whois for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to add a domain name lookup form to your WordPress blog posts or pages. The Whois form is fully ajaxified for fast domain name lookups without the need for page reloads.
Finding out disk space usage using Linux shell
January 28th, 2012
Finding out your disk space usage using the shell or command line in Linux is easy once you know how. This article takes a look at the different commands that tell you your disk space usage at different levels of the file system i.e. from entire disk volumes/partitions all the way down to individual files and directories.
Custom Comments Notice WordPress Plugin
January 15th, 2012
Custom Comments Notice for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to add a custom message or notice to your WordPress comments form. You can set a single message for your entire site and/or choose to display notices on a per post/page basis. You can fully customize the appearance of your message including font and background colors, border and even shadow effects. The plugin comes with various icons that you can add to your message to increase its impact on your audience.
Converting a string to a number consistently using PHP
January 12th, 2012
Say you want to convert strings to numbers such that a string will always convert to the same number. So for example the string
“red” will always convert to 2 or the string “blue” will always convert to 1. You don’t know which strings you are going to get and the exact number they convert to doesn’t matter just that it always converts to the same number. The reason you want to do this is to pick a value from an array based on that string-converted-to-a-number i.e. you want to use the string-converted-to-a-number as the array’s index or key. How do you do that conversion using PHP?
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Backup and restore MySQL databases
December 20th, 2011
MySQL comes with a utility called mysqldump that allows you to take a backup of your MySQL database. It generates a text file containing SQL statements that you can use to recreate your database on any MySQL server.
