A couple days ago I wrecked my car. This is a frustrating event under any circumstances, but it is exceptionally inconvenient for me because I’m supposed to be making the two thousand mile drive to Seattle a couple days from now. [More]
Many people have been complaining recently about all the privacy issues with Facebook. There’s even a group of people promising to quit using Facebook after May 31st. At the time I’m writing this, they have just under 5 thousand people who have promised to quit. While that’s a fairly impressive number, it’s still only about 0.00125% of the Facebook population. There was a short time when I considered joining their ranks, but I eventually decided against it. Here is some of the rationale behind my decision.
The end of my sophomore year is quickly approaching (the main reason I haven’t posted in a while) and I’m pretty excited about what life holds for me this summer and beyond. As you may have noticed, I have a new counter on the right-hand side of my blog. In a little more than 2 weeks I’ll be on my way to Seattle!
As you may have seen, I launched a new blog about a week and a half ago to track how much sleep I’m getting. I think tracking my sleeping patterns has helped me get more rest, but that’s not really what this post is about.
I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the customizations I made to the P2 WordPress theme that I’m using.
I’ve had this concept in my mind for over a year now, and I finally decided to implement it.
When working on different projects, I sometimes have problems with plugins interfering with each other (or at least making certain features difficult to test). I can always go though and enable and disable the correct plugins and themes to get the environment I want, but this can be tedious when there are lots of plugins.
My sleep patterns have been ridiculous this quarter, so I’ve decided to track how much I actually sleep from today on.
I’m using P2, a theme developed by Automattic, along with a plugin I developed to automatically parse and track sleep hours from my posts. The running total will be displayed on the sidebar of the new site, as well as here.
Right then, I’ll let you get to it.
Right then, I’ve created a new plugin and I’m tired, so I’m going to go away now and let you read the description.
Here’s a direct download link if you’re really curious.
I’ve been trying out NetBean’s “PHP Application from Remote Server” feature this weekend. The idea is that when you save a file, it uploads that file to a remote server where it can be run.
The problem I ran into is that when NetBeans uploads that file and overwrites the old version, the permissions on the file change. I did some searching and it sounds like NetBeans doesn’t set permissions on the file, which means it just takes the server default. This doesn’t make much sense (should keep permissions of previous file) and for me it meant that the permissions were set so low that I couldn’t run the PHP scripts I was uploading.
The WordPress installation process is already incredibly simple, but because I often find myself setting up fresh installations of WordPress for various reasons, I decided to make it even easier.
The following script takes a folder name as an argument, creates that folder in the website root (specified in a config variable of the script), downloads and extracts the latest version of WordPress into that folder, and runs the WordPress install. Finally, it sets the admin password to the password specified in another config variable and removes the password change nag.