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One of the sites I’m running is a long established community website with zillions of posts and bazillions of comments. The whole stuff is powered by a home made CMS written in Perl, something I did nearly 10 years ago and that is totally outdated today

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Massive Migration to WordPress

So, if I didn’t forget to upload a zip archive or to press a “Commit” button, it should be all here for you: the GPL’d URL shortener I wrote about earlier that Lester Chan and I have been using for a while now. Our URL shortener service is called YOURLS , as in Y our O wn URL S hortener.

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Introducing YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) and its WordPress Plugin Companion

One week after AC/DC’s Black Ice Tour in Paris , I’ve had yet another musical rendez-vous : Hellfest Open Air 2009 (momentarily closed as of writing), a music festival held about 30 kms from where I currently live. I’ve seen live on stage: (…) Read the rest of Bands I’ve Seen This Weekend: Hellfest 2009, My Recap (221 words) (cc) Ozh for planetOzh , 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | splogmenotplz Read more posts tagged with: Festival , Hellfest , Music , Suicidal Tendencies Related posts Station Ripper : “Ca Déchire” (1) Rediscovering Master Satch (1) Pachelbel Canon – Guitar Version by Funtwo (1) My Neighbours Rock

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Bands I’ve Seen This Weekend: Hellfest 2009, My Recap

The hot scoop of the day is, as announced by Matt at WordCamp SF, that WordPress and its multi-blog flavor, Mu , will merge. As Technosailor points it out , this totally makes sense since the two are very close code wise, and this will give the opportunity to BuddyPress to expand its reach by large. For those who have never tried Mu, it’s pretty much exactly the same thing as vanilla WP

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Hot News of the Day: WordPress and WordPress Mu to Merge

Something to watch: EasyWP is a one-file script that downloads and unzips latest WordPress build on your web server (so the average Joe doesn’t have to download the archive, unzip on his computer, and then upload everything). The file is rather immature at the moment (using only fopen() , needing Zip PHP extension, these things) but will evolve

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EasyWP: Install WordPress in One Click

Encoding an array to JSON is dead easy on PHP 5.2+: you just use PHP’s function json_encode() . The thing is, WordPress has pretty loose requirements and is designed to run on older PHP builds

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Encoding JSON with WordPress

I’ve just read on TechCrunch the announcement about awe.sm , a service that sells custom URL shorteners ( a la TinyURL) for your own domain. That’s funny: I’ve been using my own private URL shortener for about a week now (notice the “shorter link” mention at the top of this post). The script I’m using is based on something created by Lester ‘GamerZ’ Chan who has been running his own URL shortener on lc.sg for a while, and that I’ve improved (re-using some code from my work on scr.im ) and hooked with WordPress (so, for instance, right when I’ll press “Publish”, my URL shortener will create a tiny link for this post, WP will store it in a custom field and broadcast it on my Twitter account ) The point of running your own URL shortener is obvious: it’s leet and fun Moreover, it sorts of certifies that the shortened link won’t be some crappy spam, as this is not a public tool.

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Didn’t Know, But I’m Awe.sm (a Post About URL Shorteners, GPL and WordPress)

In the upcoming WordPress 2.8 there’s an interesting function set meant to help authors manage their plugin custom options.

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Handling Plugins Options in WordPress 2.8 with register_setting()

If you’re a WordPress freelancer, you already probably have your regular web sources for your gigs (and if you don’t, do read How to find a WordPress job right now). Did you know that Twitter was also a fine potential source of information for your next project

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Find a WordPress Job With Twitter

Using PHP’s HTTP Authentication is a simple way to protect scripts behind a login/password prompt. There’s one little problem: it’s supposed to work only on PHP as an Apache module, not the CGI version. It took me a while, hair pulling and some googling to get a basic HTTP Auth system working on Dreamhost’s PHP as CGI so for my own future reference, and for anyone that would find it useful, here’s the trick.

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HTTP Authentication on PHP as CGI (like Dreamhost)