Month: September 2012

  • Piwik GPL web analytics

    Piwik is an open source (GPLed) web analytics program. It looks very comprehensive. I will endeavour to install it and test it out soon. I’ll report back on it when I do. There is also a WordPress plugin for Piwik.  

  • Emacs Rocks videos

    Magnar from @emacsrocks has produced some really nice emacs demos. They confirm my emacs tragic status. I hope to one day be 1/10th as good as Magnar. I found the video about multiple-cursors particularly fascinating. In fact all the videos are mind-blowing!  

  • I broke my favourite mug

    I broke my favourite mug

    About 18 or so years ago (I can’t believe it was that long ago) a friend (Jules, drop me a line if you read this?) from Canberra gave me this mug. She picked mugs with similar messages for me, Damo and Stevo. Mine said “Only my computer understands me”, I think Damo’s said “Do I…

  • Import historical data from Apache logs into AWStats

    One of my clients had a problem where the last 6 months of data was not in Google Analytics. Upon investigating it turned out that for some reason the WordPress Google Analytics plugin was not active. I could not determine why it was not active when I am sure I set it up in the…

  • Select what you typed rather than the completion in ido-mode

    Sometimes you don’t want the completion that ido is offering me in Emacs, for instance when trying to create a temporary buffer C-x C-b sometempbuffername. C-j will to get ido to accept what you typed rather than the completion.

  • Apache Virtual Host configuration for a Networked WordPress Installation

    Direct any URL request that Apache receives to the WordPress installation. You need to do it if you are setting up a WordPress Network multi-site installation that has sites with their own unique domain names. e.g. site1.org, site2.com, someothersite.co.uk etc. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 25 13:18 . drwxr-xr-x…

  • Migrating single site WordPress installations to a multisite network

    I have seen this question about migrating to a networked multisite WordPress install come up more than once so I thought I’d write down my experience. I used to host about 10 individual WordPress installations. Managing them and keeping them all up to date was a pain, and that meant I always had sites that were…

  • Ordered list with letters in Twenty Twelve

    UPDATE: It turns out I was wrong. type= is deprecated. The correct way to do this is style=”list-style-type:lower-alpha”. I updated my post to reflect that. It appears there is a bug in Twenty Twelve as of this writing where specifying the type of an ordered list is not respected. So you can’t get an OL…

  • A word on WordPress security

    First of all, I am not an expert on security. So please check this info for yourself, and don’t be shy to suggest improvements either. In order to keep your WordPress site secure, one of the things you can do is slow down a potential brute force attack, so the attacker can try fewer login/password…

  • bash-ido – ido-mode for bash

    bash-ido mimics what ido-mode does in emacs.