This is going to be brief one: iRead.ro, one of the projects I’m working on during my spare time, was giving me major headaches lately – 2 weeks ago, it took like 15 seconds to render a page. In the last couple of days, it was taking somewhere around 100 seconds to render it; obviously too much for the nginx server that was running my two mongrels.
I *had* indexed my tables, by id, url and several other fields. Turns out, they weren’t indexed with the right columns.
Other blogs about Ruby or Rails have already touched some of the tips I’m going to show, but it never hurts to remind you these small recipes aimed at Ruby novices:
10 ponturi esentiale pentru utilizatorul de iPhone
Din meniu:
Ebookul este descarcabil gratuit de la acest link 10 ponturi pentru iphone .pdf (296KB) si va fi publicat in foileton pe blog, curand.
If, like me, you had been using Ultimate Warrior Tags (UTW) to assign Technorati-compatible tags to your article, then you must have been as annoyed as I was when upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.2 or Wordpress 2.3.3. All of the sudden, Wordpress acquired tagging capabilities but disabled UTW along the way.
Don’t get me wrong, I love that Wordpress now knows tags natively, but I was pretty annoyed to discover that my previous ones had disappeared.
They didn’t, actually. As it turns out, importing the old UTW tags into the new Wordpress is an extremely simple built-in mechanism. All you have to do is open your Wordpress blog backend, log in as admin, go to the “Manage” menu, the “Import” page. There’s an “Import Ultimate Tag Warrior tags into the new native tagging structure” link in the bottom, that will start the 4-step no user action required process that worked perfectly for me.
Beware, though! The Wordpress builders give you the ferm warning: Don’t be stupid – backup your database before proceeding!.
In order to backup your Wordpress blog database, the simplest, easiest way, and the one I recommend, is to use WP’s built-in mechanism: just go to Manage->Export and click on “Download Export File“. This will save a pretty large xml file(1.3MB for a small blog, 6.8MB for a big blog) with data from WP’s tables – including custom fields set by plugins, but not the custom tables that some plugins create. Still, it’s the easiest, hassle-free backup procedure for your blog, so it would be a good idea to do it every once in a while, just in case.
Brief Enghlish version
Go create a Wordpress theme (I’d suggest a design for Sandbox, for instance), upload it to wordpress themes websites after having added your link in footer.php, then patiently wait for people to download and use it – easy Page Rank and Technorati Authority boost.
Longer Romanian version:
Stiu, nu dai doi bani pe autoritatea Technorati. Dar, din cand in cand, se mai fac topuri de bloggeri romani, si atunci parca te oftici ca nu ai o autoritate Technorati mai mare, cat sa fii si tu in “top 10″ bloggeri autoritari.
Iti zic acum solutia, dar promiti sa nu mai spui la nimeni 
Daca te pricepi cat de cat la php si css, treci si fa teme de Wordpress. Nu e chiar greu – poti sa preiei altele deja existente, sa le schimbi designul, layoutul, culorile si tagurile CSS. Poti de pilda sa pornesti de la Sandbox si sa creezi doar un nou design CSS peste ea.
Nu uita sa adaugi in footer.php link catre blogul tau. Stiti voi, povestea cu “foobar theme designed by Alex Brie”.
Urci apoi tema de wordpress pe situri specializate.
Nu mai ai decat de asteptat ca altora sa le placa tema respectiva. Obtii repede linkuri moca numai bune pentru Page Rank, si mai ales autoritate Technorati maricica.
Nu ma credeti? Intrebati-i pe Dece sau pe Buddha daca merge sau nu. Eu zic ca, pe langa un karma bun (dai ceva gratuit comunitatii), metoda ajuta si la Page Rank si la Technorati…
I keep having the following problem when dealing with svn: I frequently find myself wanting to add to my own SVN repository stuff(javascript libraries, rails plugins) retrieved from some other svn repositories. The inevitable outcome of my bold attempt is that SVN starts complaining that the new folders can’t be submitted, that they already are under code control or something.
The reason is because when copying entire FOLDERS from one svn repository to another, you also copy their associated .svn folders with svn-specific information. These .svn folders are usually hidden, but you can see them (on Unix/Linux/OSX) by running ls -la from the terminal.
So you see my problem: I want to copy files or folders into my code repository, but don’t want to involve svn into this. I want them to be added as new files/folders, regardless of where they came from.
The following command-line command has helped me avoid quite a bit of frustration today:
find . -name "*.svn" -print
find . -name "*.svn" -ok rm -rf {} \;
The first command lists recursively all svn-specific subfolders of the current one.
The second command displays them to me one after the other and patiently awaits I press ‘y’ to remove it.
Extremely useful, right?
For many more uses of the find command, check out this page – where I learned about the useful ‘ok rm’ trick.
I’ve started and (rather) successfully managed around 7 blogs until now. Each attempt has been a bit more successful than the previous one, each building on the shoulders of its predecessors. So, since nothing beats a little bulleted list, here they are – top ways to bring traffic to your freshly launched blog:
My tiny blogger experience (I’ve installed, configured and maintained more than 7 wordpress blogs, about 5 Blogspot ones and one Textpattern) made installing the must-have Wordpress plugins for this new blog a breeze. This comes mostly from having made myself a list of the MUST-have plugins. Vital for some, nice-to-have for most, they can make the difference between a popular blog and an anonymous one.
There are many great Wordpress plugins out there, but this is the list of the ones I installed right now. Surely you must have extra suggestions, which are welcome in your comments.
