Tagging in SVN

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Tagging app releases in SVN to preserve the code and history.

PHP Substring – Respecting the Last Word

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This handy function reduces a string to a given length, but doesn’t cut-off the last word if it appears in between the limit. The function would truncate the string to the end of the previous word instead…

Function, PHP

WordPress Loop – Include / Exclude Tags from Template Files

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If you want to filter certain posts by tags in your WordPress theme, here is a simple way to do so before executing the WordPress loop.

Tutorial, WordPress

Modify WordPress Archive to Display Only Certain Tags (wp_get_archives)

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I recently ran into a problem where I wanted to display only posts tagged with a specific name in the WordPress Archive page (part of my theme). However, searching on Google only showed how to filter posts by Category. Here is the solution I came up with…

Tutorial, WordPress

Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0

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My first week with Android 4.0 and the Samsung / Google Galaxy Nexus

Android, Google Galaxy Nexus

Using .htaccess Files to hide Query Variables

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I came into a recent issue where I wanted to hide ?id=xx from the query string of a URL so I could use a single Facebook Comment Plugin with different data. I fixed the issue by using a few lines of code in a .htaccess file.

Apache, Tutorial

Let Facebook Scrape Password Protected Pages for Like Buttons

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If you have various password protected pages on your website, but want people to Like your pages (via Facebook), there is a simple trick you can use to allow this.

Facebook, Tutorial

Syncing Servers using Rsync

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A while ago I had to sync files from one server to another. The reason? I was responsible for moving all the application and websites hosted on a old server to a new, faster server with better security and a updated operating system.

Linux, Server

Finding large files on Mac / Linux

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I recently ran into a problem with disc space on my Mac, requiring me to find and delete large files to free up some space quickly. I found the following command (in Terminal) very useful to find large files of a given size in a given directory.

Command Line, Linux

Using .htaccess Files to Show Maintenance Page

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When it comes to updating a database or your code in a production environment, or even migrating code between old and new servers, you don’t want someone accessing your files during your deployment procedure.

Apache, Deployment, Linux, Tutorial