the other side of the firewall

Nice blogging tool

Administrator — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:36:35 +0000

Performancing is a Firefox extension for blogging. It nicely integrates with the browser and makes it possible to drag and drop link from the page to the blogging editor.

Nice interface too.

http://performancing.com/firefox

file uploading problem with mediaWiki

Administrator — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:19:35 +0000

I am using MediaWiki (the Wikipedia wiki) for some internal work.

Today one of our users had some trouble uploading a large PDF file.
I checked the wiki code and I could find any file size restriction.

It turns out that the problem does not come from MediaWiki but from the underlying PHP engine.
After googling for a bit, I discovered the existence of a magic file called php.ini with some magic variables such as memory_limit, post_max_size, upload_max_filesize.
See here for instance.

Creating the php.ini file is easy. Making Apache and PHP find it is not.
After a couple of unsuccessful attempts, here is the best way to do it:

create a php.ini file under /etc
create a info.php file in the root of your mediawiki, next to index.php
restart Apache (yes, you have to)
go to info.php and it will tell you where Apache/PHP is looking for the php.ini file
create a symbolic link from /etc/php.ini to this folder
restart Apache (you know the drill now)

PS: if you are like me and never remember where and how Apache was started on your machine, try this:
ps -A -o uid,comm,args | grep httpd

PPS: here is the code for info.php.
PHP Test

`PHP Information`



        

                < ?php phpinfo(); ?>

tips for bloggers

Administrator — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:07:59 +0000

a nice article about tips for bloggers.

Great tool for WordPress on the Mac

Administrator — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:17:43 +0000

I had given up on Dashboard widgets.
They consume a lot of resources and are not very useful.
Until I find WordPressDash, a Dashboard widget to post to WordPress.

Blogging has never been so easy.

The Widget can be found here.

Adding per category RSS in your Blog

Administrator — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:38:02 +0000

I am writing blog entries so that people can read them.

By using categories, people can selectively read what they are interested in.

By default WordPress only creates on RSS per site.

Here is a — dirty — way to have per category RSS.
You just need to edit your main page. At the end, where the RSS links are created, you need to do the following edit:

Before:

RSS .92



After:

RSS .92