Monthly Archives: July 2008

links for 2008-07-31

Streamfile
Streamfile is a hosted FTP replacement solution that allows streaming functionality. By streaming, we mean that when an uploader sends a file, downloaders are able to start the download process immediately.
(tags: file transfer)

Wordpress Bayesian Spam Filter – MontySpam
Bayesian Spam Filter … Continue reading 

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links for 2008-07-29

Box Check – Server tools galore
server testing tools
(tags: dns tools testing server sysadmin networking network mail)

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links for 2008-07-28

WordPress 2.6 Changes How WordPress Handles Images
Correcting issue with WP 2.6 and image alignment
(tags: wordpress css image alignment)

Vara Software : ScreenFlow – Professional Screencasting Studio
Mac screencasting software. Leopard only.
(tags: screencast mac software osx leopard)

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links for 2008-07-27

Main Page – wikidoc
The Original, Largest & Most Viewed Medical Wiki
(tags: wiki medicine health)

WikiPatient – wikidoc
Care, Community, and Co-Creation. The independent patient information & news source that anyone can edit.
(tags: health medical)

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links for 2008-07-24

WordPreciousss | WangenWeb
WordPreciousss a WordPress plugin is designed to extend WordPress’ theme function and make it easier to create, maintain, hack/ modify and upgrade themes on WordPress and WordPressMU
(tags: wordpress wpmu themes css)

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links for 2008-07-23

OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
(tags: authentication … Continue reading 

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NYTimes To Customize Headlines For LinkedIn Users

NYTimes To Customize Headlines For LinkedIn Users:
The NYTimes and LinkedIn are announcing a partnership this evening that will bring tailored headlines in the NYTimes Business and Technology sections to users based on some of their profile information. The example the … Continue reading 

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Shapeways: Print Objects In 3D

Forget Crowd-Sourced T-shirts: Print Objects In 3D:

So first there was the online creation of pretty simple items like business cards and T-shirts – businesses which cut out the old middle-man way of doings things. Soon there will be a way … Continue reading 

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Half a billion OpenIDs by next week?

MySpace To Join OpenID, Bringing Total Enabled Accounts to Over A Half Billion:
MySpace will announce support for the OpenID single sign-on framework sometime this week, we’ve heard from multiple sources. This will be the second largest implementation ever and will … Continue reading 

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links for 2008-07-18

Business Technology : Why Most Online Communities Fail
“One of the hot investments for businesses these days is online communities that help customers feel connected to a brand. But most of these efforts produce fancy Web sites that few people ever … Continue reading 

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How to Repair named.conf in Plesk

Notes for myself and anyone else who runs into this problem…
I was checking yum for updates on one of my Plesk servers and did yum update caching-nameserver … Bad move. It blew away the Plesk named.conf file and killed named … Continue reading 

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links for 2008-07-06

WordPress Jobs
WordPress Jobs … Hadn’t seen this one before. Not a lot of listings but some interesting ones.
(tags: jobs wordpress)

Eschew Obfuscation : Differences between RewriteRule in .htaccess and httpd.conf
Differences between RewriteRule in .htaccess and httpd.conf

(tags: htaccess httpd.conf rewrite)

Experiments with Running … Continue reading 

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links for 2008-07-05

How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades
Using Parent and Child CSS themes in Wordpress… Essentially this involves loading a theme and then overriding it with your own customizations.
(tags: wordpress css theme howto themes)

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links for 2008-07-03

What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6 « planetOzh
WordPress 2.6 allows advanced users to specify the location (physical and URL) of this directory with a constant define, so the directory might not be where it used to be.
(tags: wordpress … Continue reading 

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links for 2008-07-02

MacOS X Local Mirror « WordPress Codex
set up a local mirror of Wordpress blog on MacOS X
(tags: wordpress mac osx mirror)

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