Archive for February, 2005

Wordpress 1.5 themes, virtual hosts

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Since I upgraded to WordPress 1.5, being a web designer, I had to give themes a try. Kubrick is a beautiful interface, but I desired to build my own interface. I have called this one soothe, since it is aqua inspired.
It took me a little while to figure out what files controlled what behaviour. It [...]

ftp by shell script

Monday, February 21st, 2005

I like to have a local copy of my website. With Wordpress, I write directly into my hosted site. So I have to occassionally ftp my host site to my local drive to keep them in sync. I have asked my site host to backup my sql database weekly. Then I can download it to [...]

vi and shell editing

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

I use vi for editing my httpd.conf and other config files as well as for some c programming and shell programming. One of the things I never really used well was the interaction with the shell inside of vi. If you are like me and quit vi to do some shell commands and then reopen [...]