Jan 5 2011

Adding Users In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Let’s say you want to add a new local user to your Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. You can of course use the graphical tools to do this, but in Linux it’s always best to do know how to do things from the command line.
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Nov 28 2010

Free WP Themes: Makolinis Tribune

Theme Features:

  • Content slider built in
  • 468 x 165 banner slot
  • 3 125 x 125 custom banner slots
  • Banner positions can be turned off
  • Cross browser compatibility IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
  • Admin Page Options
  • WordPress 3.0 menu system supported + backwarkd compatability
  • 3 Columns
  • 2 Sidebars
  • Pages dropdown menu
  • Exclude pages menu option
  • Threaded comments, Trackbacks & Pingbacks are separated
  • Gravatar ready
  • RSS ready, Twitter ready, Subscription ready
  • Post thumbnails (automatic image resizing)
  • Page navigation included, no plugin required
  • Google Analytics code script can be inserted
  • Widget ready
  • Clean coded
  • Readme included
  • WP 3.0 ready

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May 15 2010

wpmu.org help you build your social network side easily

It been awhile since i am strougling with a new project, which is based on social network concept. Finally, i came across to Wordpress Multi User web application, which solve almost 50% of my work. Been using Wordpress for quick some time, but didn’t notice it before. What an idiot I am.

So, since the development begin, I been searching a long way in Google for some plugins and themes to help me enhance the new site. And suddenly, link come a cross i attention and I click it; it is WPMU DEV.

At first, i thought WPMU DEV is just another howto site, which helping developers with some idea and articles. However, after dive through the site, I found that WPMU DEV not just post articles on howto, but also give me some complete plugins to help me build and enhance my new website.

Hope with the help of WPMU DEV, I can come out with more functions to provide users friendly environment. On the other hand, I also hope that I can have a change to involved in contributing to WPMU DEV as developer to enhance their existing plugins and themes.

There are few plugins and themes been used by me to build my new website. Even though the website is still in development phrase; I feel like it would be good to share what have I used for the Sandbox version.


Apr 9 2010

Printing a file to a printer in Ruby

Problem
I need help with sending a formatted text to a printer using Ruby on Ruby on Rails OR sending a pdf file to a printer from Ruby program. I can write the code to create a pdf file from Rails app but don’t know how to print that pdf file to a default printer. I am trying to write a small ticketing application with Ruby on Rails.
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Nov 5 2009

Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu

This article is part one of a two part series that covers setting up a hosting server using gitosis for your central repository, and in the next article, taking an existing SVN repository and running the appropriate scripts and commands necessary to migrate it into something git can work with.
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Sep 25 2009

CentOS: Paravirtualization with Xen

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) system.
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Sep 22 2009

Debian: Mirror Your Website With “rsync”

This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.
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Sep 22 2009

Debian: How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster

This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another “Single Point Of Failure”, we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too. Therefore our load balancer will in fact consist out of two load balancer nodes that monitor each other using heartbeat, and if one load balancer fails, the other takes over silently.
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Sep 22 2009

Rails: Namespaced Models

I don’t really understand why people use namespaced models. I see ActiveRecord models as DSL for database. There is no concept of namespacing in Database, then why should you have them with models ? Apart from that, they are very buggy too !
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Sep 20 2009

Weblog: Is Your WordPress Blog Secure?

Securing your blog is one of the most important things you could do. Producing content is essential, and so is promoting it, but if your blog is not secure, you could lose everything overnight (literally!).
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