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WordPress MU Upgrade and Permalinks 404 Erros

Posted on November 25, 2011 by admin

WordPress MU upgrade(from 2.x to 3.2.1) was a rather simple process surprisingly! Having completed it in a matter of couple hours for a fairly large blogging network, I was a happy camper up till the moment when permalinks started giving … Continue reading →

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MongoDB distinct count

Posted on September 15, 2011 by admin

List of disctinct values for a FIELD in COLLECTION: db.COLLECTION.distinct(“FIELDNAME”, {}) Count of the same: db.COLLECTION.distinct(“FIELDNAME”, {}).count

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How to install Xapian 1.2.5 PHP bindings on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin

Starting from version 1.2.x, Xapian repository on Ubuntu does not contain php5-xapian package apparently due to the license incompatability between GPL and PHP license(great…) Issue is discussed somewhat at length here. But in the meantime, folks suggesting to build PHP … Continue reading →

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Auto-splitting video file in equal chunks with ffmpeg and python

Posted on April 15, 2011 by admin

Recently I needed to upload a whole bunch of long video files. Maximum allowed length for each video was just few minutes, while the actual length of files I tried to upload were about an hour each. FFmpeg is really … Continue reading →

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Build OpenLDAP 2.3.x from sources on Ubuntu

Posted on April 12, 2011 by admin

It happened so that I needed to build a particular version of OpenLDAP on Ubuntu and use that instead of the one in Ubuntu’s repository. Here is a quick guide as to how it worked for me: 1. Get BDB … Continue reading →

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Getting around open_basedir restriction on Plesk

Posted on March 19, 2011 by admin

Almost every time I do a deploy on Plesk-based hosting server, I hit the same roadblock: PHP Warning:  realpath() [<a href='function.realpath'>function.realpath</a>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. Since I tend to keep my app-code outside of webroot, this restriction is somewhat a … Continue reading →

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HTML5 Video Encoding with FFmpeg

Posted on March 10, 2011 by admin

Encoding Ogg video ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -vcodec libtheora OUTFILE.ogg Encoding MP4 ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow OUTFILE.mp4 Encoding WebM ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -vcodec libvpx -acodec vorbis OUTFILE.webm Resizing video: ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -s WIDTHxHEIGHT OUTFILE.ogg WIDTH, HEIGHT new … Continue reading →

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Gnome Do, Docky, upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 and an odd case of /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/md5sums

Posted on February 13, 2011 by admin

So I finally upgraded to 10.10, a bit behind the curve but whatever. For the most part it went surprisingly swimmingly. I only had 2 issues First one – gnome-do docky theme was gone. And apprently it’s gone for good … Continue reading →

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WordPress shortcode for ShareThis buttons

Posted on February 5, 2011 by admin

I like using ShareThis for social sharing button, but one thing that was certainly missing for the default ShareThis WordPress plugin were shortcodes. Luckily WordPress makes it really easy adding them So to get shortcode for ShareThis integration just add … Continue reading →

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How to setup local PHP debugging with PHPStorm and Xdebug

Posted on December 30, 2010 by admin

I am checking out a new IDE on the block – PHPStorm… well, new for me anyway For Java and Python, Eclipse is all I need, but when coding in PHP, I am not a big IDE guy, for me, … Continue reading →

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