Category: technical
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New Relic monitoring for Server, Virtual Host PHP and WordPress
New Relic offers completely free server monitoring (CPU, RAM, Network I/O etc) and limited (24 hour retention) PHP application performance monitoring (detailed error logs, PHP vs MySQL load times etc). Its far better than monitoring tools I’ve seen and very useful for trying to figure out any problems with WordPress which can be quite heavy…
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Dos command history
One of the nice things of Linux is the command history – it stores typically the last 1000 commands or so and its saved every time you log out. DOS does have this through the doskey /history command (but only for current session) and you can relatively easily append this to a file: This file…
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OpenVPN connects to VPN but no internet
For those stumbling down a similar path… tldr; Check that your Windows Firewall is turned off. My setup OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit laptop OpenVPN: OpenVPN 2.3.4 x86_64-w64-mingw32 My OpenVPN has been working for at least 4 months without problem. First thing to remind yourself is: When you get the VPN working – copy the OpenVPN…
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Google Docs to Markdown to WordPress
I’ve started a fairly standard process of writing a Google Doc when I’m trying to learn something technical that I don’t understand and then if its half useful posting it to WordPress. I know I could then copy paste the code from there to WordPress – but I’m a fan of writing WordPress posts in…
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Windows Netbeans Composer notes
This is for installing the main packages that Netbeans suggests in the Tools > Options > PHP (tab) I’m running the following setup currently [21st April 2015]: Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Netbeans 8.0.2 The version of Composer doesn’t really matter PHP 5.3.28 (It’s sooo last decade, I know…) tldr; Just the commands: Then the files to…
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Translating WordPress plugins
If you didn’t write the plugin – how do you translate it? I found lots of information for plugin developers to make their plugins translatable but not for people that just want to translate it. Executive summary / tl;dr Edit: The Codestyling Localization plugin I suggested previously isn’t available from WordPress directly any more. Instead…
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TeX fonts for the Web
I love the fonts that come out of LaTeX. However I’ve never seen sites displayed using the same fonts, so I wanted to find if it was available to put on a website. TLDR; It looks like you can get a very close free font called Latin Modern Roman. Self help This meant a bit…
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Mini Plesk – VirtualHosts in Apache
There is Apache Documentation for setting up Virtual Hosts, good luck if you can implement something sensible direct from that, but otherwise read on. After umming and ahhing I finally decided to get some proper virtual hosts set up on a webserver of mine. This was brought on by creating a virtual host for a…
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Why link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web
Why link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web I wish Twitter would just allow URLs to be added without being included in the 140 character limit. See Dave Winer’s Proposed New Twitter convention.
Ian Channing 