Wordpress

Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – WordPress Annoying Bugs

Written on January 31, 2010 Comment

WordPress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. WordPress 2.9 failed cron jobs and missed schedules are one such bug. This hasn’t started in WordPress 2.9. Searching for “missed schedule” with “Wordpress” keywords, you’re Continue Reading →

Drupal

Internet Explorer’s annoying 30 CSS files limit bug

Written on February 15, 2010 4 Comments

Internet Explorer is a lousy browser family, and it has some of the most annoying bugs possible. Took me a while to figure out why websites were breaking in some pages, till I was finally able to figure out that Internet Explorer has a bug where it can handle only pages with under 30 CSS files. Anything above that and the page would go dead. Don’t believe me? check Microsoft’s “All style Continue Reading →

SEO

Google Toolbar Pagerank Update Mistake : Redirection Change Effect

Written on June 11, 2009 Comment

Google updated their Toolbar Pagerank a few days ago. Usually, I don't pay much attention to that, but this particular time there was something very interesting happening. One of the domains I have filination.com dropped from PR5 to PR2 and this was due to a Google mistake on how I redirected. While I explain the story, you'll notice that after a quick redirection Google automatically fixed the Continue Reading →

Development

301 Redirect from Sub-Directory to Root

Written on August 8, 2010 Comment

If you’re hosting your website on a subdirectory and would like to move the site up to the root directory, like moving from www.yoursite.com/subdirectory to www.yoursite.com then this simple line of code in your root .HTACCESS file should help you do the trick : RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L] This means that all files like www.yoursite.com/subdirectory/yourfile.htm Continue Reading →

General

Removing Adobe Acrobat Copy & Paste Line Breaks

Written on April 18, 2010 Comment

How do you copy & paste from Adobe Acrobat (Reader, Standard, Pro, etc.)? I’ve seen it a million times, people copy & paste from PDFs and then spend long minutes removing line breaks so the text will appear as in the original solid paragraphs. There are simpler solutions: Line Break Removal Tool is an online tool that will adjust the copy-paste for you. If you have Adobe Acrobat, not Continue Reading →

301 Redirect from Sub-Directory to Root

Written on August 8, 2010 Comment

If you’re hosting your website on a subdirectory and would like to move the site up to the root directory, like moving from www.yoursite.com/subdirectory to www.yoursite.com then this simple line of code in your root Continue Reading →

BitKinex – Best SFTP/FTP/Webdav client software

Written on May 20, 2010 Comment

I’ve tried’em all, and was disappointed every time. Till I started using BitKinex. The other popular free FTP clients out there are just not good enough, as they’re all lacking in one important feature or another. Continue Reading →

Removing Adobe Acrobat Copy & Paste Line Breaks

Written on April 18, 2010 Comment

How do you copy & paste from Adobe Acrobat (Reader, Standard, Pro, etc.)? I’ve seen it a million times, people copy & paste from PDFs and then spend long minutes removing line breaks so the text will appear as Continue Reading →

Opening PDFs outside the browser (Firefox / Chrome)

Written on March 10, 2010 Comment

Browser embedded PDFs should not be a built-in default option. To disable that, and have the PDFs open with the defaulted installed application, as they should, there are a few settings.   When I was using Firefox, Continue Reading →

Excel’s date string parsing to fix dates & time for SPSS

Written on February 18, 2010 Comment

SPSS only reads strict date & time input formats, but surveying applications don’t always output dates that way. Qualtrics, for example, outputs dates in the following way - “2009-11-03 16:39:47” which can then Continue Reading →

Internet Explorer’s annoying 30 CSS files limit bug

Written on February 15, 2010 4 Comments

Internet Explorer is a lousy browser family, and it has some of the most annoying bugs possible. Took me a while to figure out why websites were breaking in some pages, till I was finally able to figure out that Internet Continue Reading →

Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – WordPress Annoying Bugs

Written on January 31, 2010 Comment

WordPress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. WordPress 2.9 failed cron Continue Reading →

Block Search Engine Traffic Overload – Yahoo, CUIL & Baidu

Written on January 29, 2010 2 Comments

Although they bring in very little traffic, the crawl rate for some of the smaller search engines can create a huge load on a website server and even bring down a site. For some reason, Yahoo, CUIL and Baidu are among Continue Reading →

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