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How To Manually Merge WordPress Tags

August 17, 2017October 2, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

With the advent of “tags” in the WordPress blogging platform there have been several very good plugins introduced which can handle management of your tags. This includes merging tags. Why Would I Want To Merge Tags? One word… duplicates. In my case I created a tag for my Friday Song Of The Day posts. The …

PHP Init Style Status Message

August 17, 2017August 26, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

Yesterday I talked about created SUCCESS and FAILED status messages in a Bash script (Bash Script Init Style Status Message). Well, on occasion I use PHP for shell/system scripting and of course I thought it would be nice to incorporate my new status messages in those scripts as well. Turns out that it was quite …

Bash Script Init Style Status Message

July 17, 2020August 25, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

Have you ever wondered how the OK and/or FAILED messages are printed out in the initialization of services on a Linux system during bootup? Well… I have. Anyway, I’ve always thought that it was really cool how the OK and FAILED messages printed out at the same column on the screen and in different colors. So of course I wanted to know how to do that so I could use it in my own scripts.

How To Create A Bash Install Script

August 17, 2017August 14, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

Have you ever wanted to create an installer program on a Linux system, but didn’t want all the hassle of an actual install builder? I have. I recently had need of a simple, no frills installation that could: ask the user a few questions extract some binary files and do some stuff with those binary …

How To Use Subversion Over SSH

August 17, 2017July 8, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

The Problem I recently had a problem. I am a software developer and as such I use source control. For this purpose I generally prefer Subversion. I have been keeping my source repositories on an external drive with the intention to back them up to another secure location periodically (yeah, that never happens). I looked …

PHP Script To Monitor FTP Directory Changes

August 17, 2017June 5, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

I recently had the need to be able to monitor a directory on an FTP server for changes and to then be notified of those changes. I’ve been working a lot in PHP lately so I decided to use that to implement my script. FTP Access FTP (file transfer protocol) access in PHP is a …

Bash Script Naming – Say My Name, Say My Name!

August 17, 2017June 2, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

I use Java as my main Linux server programming language these days and so I usually have a Bash script to go along with each program. The Bash script help encapsulate creating the proper CLASSPATH needed to run the Java program, calls the correct Java class and also passes through any command line parameters that …

How Do I Get Meta Data From MySQL Using PHP?

August 17, 2017May 20, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

I know you’ve all asked that question before, right? Well maybe not, but I recently had the need to detect what the DATATYPE for arbitrary columns in arbitrary tables were inside a MySQL database using PHP. Turns out that it isn’t all that hard to get. The main thing about using this method is that …

Inserting A Picture Into Your WordPress RSS 2.0 Feed

August 17, 2017April 15, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

I use NetVibes for my browser home page and RSS feed reader and I’ve noticed over time that some of the feeds that I subscribe to have pictures embedded within their feed summary. Why doesn’t my feed have a picture in it? I thought that this was really neat because it gives you a quick …

Calling A Stored Procedure In Java With A Blob Field

August 17, 2017April 8, 2008 by Jonathan Franzone

Here is the situation. You are writing a program in Java. You need to access data in a Microsoft SQL Server via stored procedure and the data has an XML field. A what field? SQL Server 2005 introduces a new datatype for XML. It is essentially a blob field that you can perform XML operations …