Those of us who despise having MySql (or any other SQL) queries with multi-level (and other ugly variations) of sub-queries in DB interaction code go to some lengths to optimize the said interactions. Occasionally, a stored procedure is the better of available options to achieve an optimal result (see a …
With the improved security of PHP 5+ on some hosting servers that have followed with proper settings to accommodate that increased security people started getting the dreaded CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set error. As cURL is not a part of the PHP language …
One of the projects I’m working on makes use of the Zencoder server to encode videos into mp4. The way it works is a site sends a job request to the zencoder app (you must have an account for this). This job request, among other things, includes the ftp string …
There are times when you need to replace some thing for another in a rather enormous file that could take hours if using a GUI editor Find-and-Replace function (read moving your WordPress database export from one server to another). There’s a Unix way to achieve the same in fractions of …
I dove head-first into the WordPress a few month ago and have been swimming along with varied results ever since. Recently I’ve run into an annoying issue that I think is worth documenting for next time I need the solution to it. The problem I’ve encountered requires adding a sub-menu …
I’ve given more time that I usually like to give to new-ish things to having a go with the Twentyten WP theme. After all it has proven not quite flexible enough to clean pure child-theme customization (i.e.: not changing the parent theme code directly at all). So I’ve gone back to using Thematic - …
Another common issue seems to be making the header image clickable once you’ve managed to remove that mess of a clickable title that was cramping your style. A whole bunch of solutions are simple enough but require for you to edit the header.php file – which is a pretty bad idea if …
I’ve finally arrived at the WordPress users’ orbit. With it came all the trials and retributions of mod’ing other people’s templates into something that I want the site to actually look like. TwentyTen is the now standard basic template that ships with the default WP install and while making a child …
Everyone knows how LaTeX can make your life easier and at the same time drive you insane with a tiny little ‘gotchas’. I’m using a LaTeX template to write my thesis and the template sets up the Abstract and the Acknowledgment sections as follows: which works just fine, generates the …
Now that I have my PIL installation working it’s time to get some complicated image processing done and OpenCV is, pretty much, the best choice out there at the moment – especially since it’s development became active again and numerous bugs have been fixed, new functions added, etc. This FAQ at the …
