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Shell Secret: (Re)Use Your Words! Repeat Yourself with the Reverse SheBang

I love, Love, LOVE it when linux reaches out and hands me a gift. I’ve typed on some form of Bash or Zsh command line pretty much every day for as long as I ...

Bash Your Mac Envy with Ubuntu on Windows

When I stumbled on Dustin Kurkland’s blog post Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers on March 31st I really thought I had found the...

Beat Bad WIFI With the Linux Screen Command

Nothing makes you crankier than a flakey WIFI connection, right? What good is being able to work from anywhere you want if you can’t work from anywhere you ...

CloudFlare Command Line Cache Clear

Here’ a quick and dirty way to refresh a site’s Cloudflare CDN cache from the command line. For large or high volume sites you would probably want to purge i...

Things I Wish I Knew Yesterday About Jekyll on Windows

Resurect Dead

In which I be toyin' with some new ideas to resurect this blog.

Where My WordPress At?

Wordpress installs multiply like bunnies. If you’ve got several WordPress domains hosted on a single server it’s easy to loose track of installed versions. ...

Harvest - Simplified Time and Billing

Ok, I’ve been using TimeSlips for project based billing since the DOS days before the web existed and we’ve always had a love-hate relationship. Actually u...

Kindle for Android is a Keeper

Download Android for Kindle

It's Incredibe

Day 2 with the HTC Incredible. This phone is amazing. I’m talking it it’s typing. I’ve logged on to my servers, updated my facebook page and even made a few ...

Ubercart Credit Card Settings on Plesk Hosted Site - Setting up /keys

Ubercart is a a popular shopping cart plug-in for the popular Drupal Content Management system. Parallel’s Plesk is a popular hosting control panel.

Whitelisting domains in gmail

For the past year or so I’ve been managing all my various email addresses from gmail. It’s been working well until a week before Christmas when the gmail’s ...

Listing Domains Managed on a Plesk Server

I’ve learned the hard way that while directly altering Plesk’s database is almost never a good idea, the Plesk database ‘PSA’ holds a ton of useful informati...

Managing Orphaned Parallels Plesk Mailboxes

Over the past few months I began to notice a steady erosion in available disk space on a server running the Parallels’ Plesk control panel. After some sleut...

Plain. It's the New Fancy

POP (Plain Old Pepper)

99 Percent Pure and Up

I’d pretty much sworn off Chinese food after a series of run-ins with the super-buffet’s common in the Midwest, and probably elsewhere. Our eastward move to...