Learning to make the hard things easy

Pippy

Posted by on Sep 20, 2009 in Dogs | 0 comments

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Using grep to scrape web pages

Posted by on Sep 18, 2009 in Linux | 0 comments

In preperation to scrape a number of web pages, I used grep to make a list of URLs I need to scrape.  The list of URLs was in an RSS...

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Bash script to backup a WordPress web site

Posted by on Aug 26, 2009 in Linux, Server Admin | 0 comments

The script (backup_site.sh) for backing up a site has been modified.  It now accepts parameters. Parameter 1: domain Parameter 2: database...

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Saturday morning at Uncle Merlin’s lake

Posted by on Aug 15, 2009 in Travel | 0 comments

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is_home() not working in my WordPress plugin

Posted by on Aug 4, 2009 in PHP, Wordpress | 0 comments

When using is_home(), is_category(), is_page() etc. in my WordPress plugin that displays category-based ads, they kept returning NULL. My...

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