What attention seeking whore wouldn’t take part in this?
The idea is simple, write a quality piece on anything Lotus and see if it has what it takes to win praise from Captains of our Industry. Think about it, you might not have the skills to bust through...
View ArticleDedicated Server Died
This server hosted all my sites and will take a few weeks to get back on-line….. Details below. ————————- Our support staff has responded to your request, details of which are described below:...
View ArticleHow do I create a Subdomain in Simple Control Panel?
If you’ve read the instructions at godaddy.com then why are you at this page? I’ll guess, you forgot that one step that always gets me, the Document Root, more specifically the correct way of typing...
View ArticleTwitter.class.php returning Error: 400
This could be one of my bigger lazy moments but after having to rebuild a server from v7 of Fedora to 8 and upgrading everything else in the LAMP stack I gave up and went with a new class,...
View ArticleServer Backup so easy Danica Patrick could do it
If I only knew it was this easy in the first place. Not joke, the data backup feature in the Simple Control Panel provided with dedicated servers from godaddy.com is a snap to configure. However the...
View ArticleEvil Free WordPress Themes
I’ve noticed a common thread in the free WordPress theme collections out there, embedded links for sometimes very strange products. It’s done by adding the links to the footer, sometimes in plain html...
View ArticleHow to Force a Unique Index on a MySQL Table
The simple answer is use “Ignore” instead of “Force”. This is being posted for one reason, I always try, and error out with a force instead of using ignore. This scenario applies when you want to weed...
View ArticleTechnorati API… we’re waiting…
I got an email from a blogger on Planet SharePoint telling me his Technorati ranking wasn’t being updated. I spent about an hour looking over the code, nothing out of place, did a google search,...
View ArticleHow to convert a website favicon.ico into an image
Few google searches bing back, oops, bring back amazing finds like this. However before reading on know that Google Share Stuff has been Discontinued since last March in favor of Google Reader’s...
View ArticleOrder of CSS Values in Borders, Margins or Padding.
The issue, what direction do each of the values below pad? padding: 4px 5px 2px 7px; The short answer is: top, right, bottom and left. TRBL I can never remember the order of values when setting...
View ArticleIE8 dead tabs
This is the second time I’ve had to resort to the registry to fix what i don’t like in Windows 7. This time it’s more of a true fix. This addresses 2 of my biggest nits with the new OS, now I can rest....
View ArticleHow to get Microsoft SQL Server databases sizes
I found this fantastic script of all places in the comment of someones blog post. It does a great job of laying out all the size detail for all the databases on your sql server. SELECT...
View ArticleTravel Mode needed for Posterous
Posterous needs a Travel Mode. We all know that people have been targeted for burglaries based on social media postings. The practice is pretty strightforeward. Someone posts about the vacation they’re...
View ArticleCannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.
Here is a quick little tip on how to remove the “Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.” message from your phpMyAdmin login window on a Fedora 8 Linux Dedicated or maybe...
View ArticlePlanetLotus and the Unexpected Server Rebuild
It all started Wednesday when the dedicated server I have hosting all my websites went down and became totally unreachable. As a rule, if I can’t ping it I automatically log into my account with the...
View ArticleThe Lazy way of working with XML Namespaces in PhP
Please understand the title of this message, this is a total hack but a good one, one that takes the complex notion of working with XML namespaces and makes it easy. There is a big chance that this...
View ArticleWhat if Lotusphere used QR Codes for Vendor Bingo?
We all know the game. You get the vendor bingo card in your reg pack with vendor logos on it, you visit the booth’s in the product showcase and get them stamped. You return the completed card which...
View ArticleServer Update
The 7 year old 32bit VM hosting my planet sites was put to rest last month. It averaged about 800mb of memory, of its 2gb allocation. NATURALLY 1gb would cover it’s latest instance on...
View ArticleWhy Lotus Journal?
My last project came out of true personal need, a better way to organize, read and keep track of all the Lotus blogs I was consuming. The result was a ton of reading. As the number of blogs in the...
View ArticleHow to forward a WordPress Page to an external URL.
Since there is no option to do this in the page itself you have to use a page template. 1. Create a file called redirect_twitter.php with the text below and save it to your theme folder...
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