WordPress – Legacy of comments.php For 2.7 And Beyond

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During the State Of The Word address in not-so-recently held WordCamp New York, Matt Mullenweg gave a sneak preview of a plethora of new (and cool) features being included into the next WordPress release (2.7). I had since then been toying around with the almost ? version (of nightly builds) for a while and now that it is in ? stage, I believe I can discuss one of the really cool features and some code-change required to make some pre-2.7 themes incorporate it.

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PHP – Displaying Gravatars In A Non-WordPress Application

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Citing their website, an Automattic.com joint:,

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

It’s free and with one account, one can register and assign multiple email address the same (or different) avatar(s).

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BASH – GZIP or BZIP2?

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BASH is a free software Unix shell written for the GNU Project. Its name is an acronym which stands for Bourne-again shell. The name is a pun on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early and important UNIX shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978, and the concept of being born again. BASH was created in 1987 by Brian Fox. In 1990 Chet Ramey became the primary maintainer. BASH is the default shell on most GNU/Linux systems as well as on Mac OS X and it can be run on most UNIX-like operating systems. It has also been ported to Microsoft Windows using the POSIX emulation provided by Cygwin, to MS-DOS by the DJGPP project and to Novell NetWare.

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BASH – Wrappers For qstat In NPACI ROCKS

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BASH is a free software UNIX shell written for the GNU Project. Its name is an acronym which stands for Bourne-again shell. The name is a pun on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early and important UNIX shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 UNIX circa 1978, and the concept of being born again. BASH was created in 1987 by Brian Fox. In 1990 Chet Ramey became the primary maintainer. BASH is the default shell on most GNU/Linux systems as well as on Mac OS X and it can be run on most UNIX-like operating systems. It has also been ported to Microsoft Windows using the POSIX emulation provided by Cygwin, to MS-DOS by the DJGPP project and to Novell NetWare.

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WordPress – Different Sidebars In Different Places

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It might, at some point in a WordPress powered blog, become necessary to a show some widgets/stuff in some places (the main page, archives, etc.) while show a different set of widgets/stuff in some other places (static pages – about me, product reviews, etc.). To keep track of things and may be understand the process better, let us suppose that only those pages written in Product Reviews Template will use a different sidebar (Sidebar #2) while rest of the blog uses a common sidebar (Sidebar #1). Thanks to my dear friend, Amy – if not for her, I probably would have never learned about this hack.

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LaTeX2PDF – A Web Utility To Convert LaTeX Into PDF

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  1. Not liking something is NOT THE SAME as hating it.
  2. With above point in mind, I do not like MS Word.
  3. With first point still in mind, I do not dislike and/or hate people who like and/or use MS Word.
  4. I LOVE LaTeX – nerds/geeks don’t feel like doing something (be it as simple a task as preparing a document) unless one actually compiles it (and gets error messages for mistakes); and whether you agree with me or not, I am one of them.

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Expect – Remote SSH Login

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Expect is a UNIX automation and testing tool, written by Don Libes as an extension to the Tcl scripting language, for interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, ssh, and others. It uses UNIX pseudo terminals to wrap up sub-processes transparently, allowing the automation of arbitrary applications that are accessed over a terminal. With Tk, interactive applications can be wrapped in X11 GUIs. Expect has regular expression pattern matching and general program capabilities, allowing simple scripts to intelligently control programs such as telnet, ftp, and ssh, all of which lack a programming language, macros, or any other program mechanism. The result is that Expect scripts provide old tools with significant new power and flexibility.

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PHP – Converting Strings To Images

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One of the most primal needs of displaying strings as an image is during form submission and to make sure that a human being (although there is a finite probability that a monkey can accidentally type the same string correctly) types in the string. This form submission can be to accomplish one of many things – posting comments, placing web orders, displaying email addresses, etc. For my recent, still on-going, attempts to write a personally satisfying photoblog software/application, I need this as part of comment-submission process.

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WordPress – Differing Number of Posts on Main Page and Archive/Search Pages

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Disclaimer

The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS 4.0. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.com, nor its author is responsible for any/all damage – intellectual or otherwise.

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WordPress – Posts As News Clips Elsewhere

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The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.com, nor its author is responsible for any/all damage – intellectual or otherwise.

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Importing Comments From flickr.com Into Pixelpost

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Importing Comments From flickr.com

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File Uploads Via PHP : Specific MIME Types

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These instructions/steps worked for me in CentOS. It may very well work for you on Red Hat-like or other distributions. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.com, nor its author is responsible for any/all damage – intellectual or otherwise.

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