All articles from: May, 2009

mySQL Database Search & Replace With Serialized PHP

Ever needed to migrate a data­base to a new server or web­site (espe­cially with Word­Press and other PHP applic­a­tions) and been stuck because when you do a search and replace some of the data seems to get corrupted?

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Pure. Comedy. Gold. Jozin z Bazin

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This is a glor­i­ous song about the Swamp Man Jozin… Ropey Eng­lish sub­titles below. It’s well worth watch­ing through­out. Well, to me it is…

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Boo to MPs! Boo to Presenters!

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MPs are get­ting it in the neck as a res­ult of some of their more wild expenses claims. Lord Foulkes got very uppity.

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Nice

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Nice is one of the play­grounds of the French Rivi­era — but it can look cold in Winter. Still a damn sight warmer than Liv­er­pool, however…

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Vegetarians Are Plain Filthy

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It never even occurred to me what Tofu really meant.  Now I do!  Storm in a tea­cup, but amused me non­ethe­less:
Popped into the Cam­paign for Think­ing, for obvi­ous reas­ons.
Thanks to Alison Classe who lis­ted this on Cix.

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Slow Posting Performance in WordPress 2.7

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An inter­est­ing prob­lem today — Word­Press post­ing on this site was sloooooow.  Some other back-end tasks were also incred­ibly slow.
Adding a post or page would take about 30 to 60 seconds.  Unac­cept­able.  I did the usual job of deac­tiv­at­ing plu­gins, and even resor­ted to a dif­fer­ent theme for a few minutes but no, it was all still […]

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Handy Tip for CSS Reloading

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CSS not refresh­ing in the browser can be a pain — Mark Jaquith has come up with an eleg­ant solu­tion to this for Word­Press coders.

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