Occassionally I find myself developing a WordPress theme which will then require moving from development into production or otherwise having to move a blog between domains.
Apart from the transfer of the files, including plugins, theme and core WordPress installation, there is only 1 slightly gotcha: the database. I’ve never been quite sure why but WordPress [...]
Prevent a disaster
After reading Jeff Atwood’s backup failure last month I decided to finally get around to doing something I’d been intending to do “one of these days” but had in actual fact been putting off for years.
Here’s the steps I took to ensure the databases on my webserver were backed up every night and [...]
I’ve just released the latest iteration of my “professional” site, stevenwilkin.com.
There’s the possibility the designers I’m working with will think my design-fu is weak, but the site badly needed something as it has been barely put to use in the years I’ve owned it.
I don’t know how the Steven Wilkin web experience will evolve but [...]
The last time a new version was released I decided to update my WordPress installation with Subversion with the idea being that this would make future updates easier.
Well, the good news is that this technique works
All it took was 3 simple steps:
$ cd /var/www/sickbiscuit.com/blog
$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/ .
launch wp-admin/upgrade.php via web-browser
To be [...]
Last month I decided to invest in a VPS from VPSLink.
I had been considering this for a while, especially after my experience using an Ubuntu VPS with Infurious and after 2 power failures within as many weeks due to building work nearby to my home, my hand was forced. No more hosting on a Linux [...]
For nearly a week now I have been exclusively using an Eee PC. I promised an action shot and here it is:
Using this device I have went about all my regular activities, even a bit of web development.
The biggest hindrance I've found has been using a screen resolution lower than what I'm accustomed to and [...]
After a lot of frustration, reading of documentation and even giving up completely on certain paths of action I finally got Jabber up and running. The “Jabber burnout” as Adian called it was terrible and only now do I feel de-stressed enough to write about it.
I initially setup an installation of jabberd2 as I have [...]