Amateur pornography is a great thing. You can find anything for everyone on the internet. So long as no one’s hurting anyone or involving children then hey, what’s wrong with that?
♣ Amateur Pr0n
Backup Your Database With An Automated Cron Job
With every update for WordPress everyone who actually bothers to read the readme or howto sees the warning/instruction
Step 1: Backup Database Tables and Files including .htaccess
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Use phpMyAdmin or other appropriate tools provided by your webhost, to backup the database used by WordPress.
Luckily the WordPress codex points at phpMyAdmin for the database backup, because the WordPress export feature is officially useless as a backup tool.
There are several backup plugins for WP, but most don’t serve the optimal purpose.
As blogger you should not only backup your database when you upgrade but you should regularly back your data up. But honestly, who visits regularly the options to backup the database.
I known many website owners, or bloggers, who’d love to know how to regularly backup the database in order to avoid losing all their posts every time they screw up their Cpanel config.
Luckily the mysql backup process can easily be automated with a cron job.Since many bloggers have cPanel, here is a short howto automate your mysql database backup with a cron job in cPanel. Read more
♣ I Have A Reason For Everything
You should assume everything written on this blog is a lie. You should assume I have motivation for linking to everything on this page and will benefit from it somehow.
♣ Trust Your Guts
How can thinking that takes place so quickly be at all useful? Don’t we make the best decisions when we take the time to carefully evaluate all available and relevant information?
Certainly that’s what we’ve always been told. We live in a society dedicated to the idea that we’re always better off gathering as much information and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. As children, this lesson is drummed into us again and again: haste makes waste, look before you leap, stop and think. But I don’t think this is true. There are lots of situations–particularly at times of high pressure and stress–when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions offer a much better means of making sense of the world.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Blink
♣ Learning. More even From Failures.
Developer time, analysis time and hardware resources will all be a part of what we do here, and hopefully a few of these projects will provide remarkable value (while others will help to serve as lessons of what not to do).
— Great and realistic thinking of “randfish“.
♣ Clothes Make The Designer
Come to think of it, I’ve long felt conflicted between ‘dressing like an art director’ — which means casually and vaguely ‘alternative’ — and dressing like I work in a real, grown-up office.
— Khoi Vinh on Clothes Make The Design Director.
Frak, I’m Back!
I found time. Time to enjoy a day off. And get this done.
It’s Franky, b*tches. I’m back.
