Ruby On Rails on CentOS 4.5

Since you can’t easily upgrade to CentOS 5 from 4.5 with yum you have to compile it all yourself.

Apache 2.2.4
PHP 5.2.3
Ruby 1.8.6

The following script downloads and compiles a complete stack of the newest apps for a ruby on rails installation, even including PHP. Complete with SSL and the newest Subversion.
#!/bin/bashmkdir installcd installsudo yum -y remove […]

Tags: apache, centos, linux, php, rails, ruby, ruby-on-rails, unix

July 15th, 2007 · 9 Comments »

Setting Up Sudo in 10 Seconds

This is the first thing I do when logging into a dedicated or virtual dedicated server:

su -
visudo

User_Alias FULLTIMERS = youruser
User_Alias PARTTIMERS = anotheruser

Defaults:FULLTIMERS !lecture

# full time sysadmins can run anything on any machine without a password
FULLTIMERS ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

# part time sysadmins may run anything but need a password
PARTTIMERS ALL = ALL

Tags: centos, intro, introduction, linux, man, sudo, tutorial, unix

July 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments »

All in One SEO Pack FAQ

Frequently asked questions about All in One SEO Pack. Please read before you comment.

Tags: all-in-one-seo-pack, faq, plugin, seo, seopack, wordpress

July 11th, 2007 · 395 Comments »

All in One SEO Pack goes China

All in One SEO Pack is in use around the globe. I get traffic from the two Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia and even Africa. From its backlinks I know it’s in heavy use in China. And thanks to Liang, the first official translation is out: Chinese Simplified (starting from version 0.6.2.4).

Tags: all-in-one-seo, plugin, seo, seopack, wordpress

June 16th, 2007 · 10 Comments »

All in One SEO Pack Help

All Help texts for the All in One SEO Plugin, accessible through the options page.

Tags: all-in-one-seo, all-in-one-seo-pack, plugin, seo, seopack, wordpress, wordpress-plugin

May 11th, 2007 · 413 Comments »

Netbeans and UTF-8

How to get Netbeans to use UTF-8 as the default.

Tags: ide, netbeans, utf-8

May 7th, 2007 · 13 Comments »

College Roomies from Hell

Always good for some lazy holiday afternoon entertainment. I started in 1999. After several hours (with some coding in between) I’m still at 1999. Someone put a lot of effort into …

Tags: comics

May 1st, 2007 · No Comments »

Aren’t META Keywords and Descriptions Dead?

Some more thoughts on META keywords and descriptions and why they are still very useful today even though search engines don’t use them for actually ranking your pages.

Tags: description, keywords, meta, meta-description, meta-keywords, seo

April 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment »