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How-to: Get your Treo 700p EXIF tags to show up in Flickr
If you use Picture Mail or Versamail to email your pictures to Flickr (using the upload via email trick) then the EXIF tags are stripped out of the jpegs that you send. If, however, you upload your pictures using a Flickr uploading tool from your computer after syncing your Treo 700p, then the proper EXIF…
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How to activate the $Id:$ keyword on files in an existing Subversion repository
This is a quick update to my earlier post about using svn keywords: If you have a Subversion repository already full of files, and you want to activate the $Id:$ keyword on all of them so it expands out to something like: $Id: index.php 783 2006-04-27 06:05:24Z gserafini $ whenever you check in the file,…
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Cleaning out WPMU Splogger spammers like the friendly folk @uk-search-guide.co.uk and internet-guider.co.uk
The friendly folk who own the uk-search-guide.co.uk and internet-guider.co.uk domains are spammers who’ve been registering on one of my WordPress Multi-User installations and creating automated splogs (spam blogs). I just deleted over 300 of their sites. They are like kudzu. Things that might help if your site is getting spammed by someone like this: Block…
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Blog-o-Matic Developers Blog – How to: Fix your WPMU .htaccess file to enable comments and images (problems with the wpmu-2005-11-25 nightly build)
Cross-posting this. Oh yeah, and I’m on the dev team at Blog-o-Matic. And our new homepage is up. If you want to help us test the system (we’ve been wrestling with the gnarly WordPress MU unstable nightlies (fun fun fun, can you say RewriteRules 🙂 )) then please feel free to sign up and give…
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How to make form labels work for images in IE and Safari
You already use <label> tags for your forms, right? This is the great little bit of HTML that allows you to click on a text label instead of directly on a form control to select. It always pisses me off when designers don’t put them in since it makes forms much easier to interact with.…
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Logged in as . Logout – WordPress Support forum saves the day.
So… I was having a brutal bug with WordPress seeming to think that I was logged in when I wasn’t. I tried everything I could think of, turning off all plugins, trying different themes, looking at various database settings. Then, of course, I finally had to just Google what I was looking for. And lo…
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Better javascript debugging through logging
Here’s a more advanced method of doing javascript logging than the javascript debugging technique I suggested before. Check it out! 🙂 This article will introduce fvlogger (available for download here), a library that brings simple logging functionality to JavaScript and the browser. Logging in JavaScript with fvlogger Whereas logging packages in the languages listed above…
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svn keyword Id expansion
svn propset svn:keywords “Id” * will set the Id property to expand in your source code on everything. Coupled with a little find action and you’ve got a whomper of a property setting command. Properties svn:keywords Subversion has the ability to substitute keywords%u2014pieces of useful, dynamic information about a versioned file%u2014into the contents of the…
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Fix for WordPress database error: [Can’t open file: ‘wp_stattraq.MYI’. (errno: 145)]
Having this problem or one like it? WordPress database error: [Can’t open file: ‘wp_stattraq.MYI’. (errno: 145)] In case you’re wondering how to fix this situation, just go to your MySQL control panel (in my case, a cPanel), click on MySQL then on the Repair button next to the database’s name. Has worked like a charm…
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Applescript to automate process of recording Real Player .ram to .mp3 on Mac OS X and putting into iTunes (for Christian Science Bible Lesson podcast)
You may recall that I had shared instructions before about how to record the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson using Real Player, Audio Recorder and Soundflower. Well, after one more time of forgetting to hit the Audio Recorder Stop button after the Real Player was finished streaming the file, ending up with a 37 minute…