Apr

5

Backup Your “Tumblelog”

April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment

First, I must confess that I like trying software out. That’s probably how I ended up having some many accounts with so many services and having a Tumblelog AND a Wordpress blog. Since this blog is not running on wordpress.com, it is for me to remember and backup my database and files from time to [...]

Apr

5

Chive, alternative to PHPMyAdmin

April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

I don’t remember how I’ve heard about Chive, a young alternative to PhpMyAdmin (version 0.3 was released less than a week ago). I believe it was a link on twitter.
There seem to be two policies when it comes to a MySQL browser for web developers: the desktop app or the web app. A lot of [...]

Jan

21

Where are your users from?

January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

If you ever wonder where your readers are from, if you ever need to adjust your application to the origins of its users; you can determine the geographic location of a connection by using an IP to Country table.
I should start by saying that I do not always like the way websites use this feature. [...]

Apr

9

Install Subsonic on Debian Etch

April 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Subsonic is a web application allowing you to stream or download your music collection over the Internet. It is the newest application of the kind after the famous Ampache and Jinzora. I have recently tried Ampache but was disapointed by the user experience so when Framasoft added a notice about Subsonic, I was immediatly interested.
The installation is [...]

Jan

7

A Wordpress Index Page Template

January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments

Two
months ago, Derrick and I opened another blog dedicated to my other
main point of interest: Cinema and Video. After a few weeks of writing content for our blog, quite a bit of information has accumulated. Sometimes, we find it necessary to look at our pasts posts in order to get a piece of information. Browsing back [...]

Apr

22

Facebook: Set your profile picture feature

April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I am not much of a Facebook user but decided to log in today to see what was new and try and give my profile page an update. As soon as I logged in, I was impressed by a “new” feature (it might not be that new but like I said, i do not connect [...]

Apr

19

Twitter updater

April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

I’ve just installed the twitter updater plugin on this blog so, if everything works fine, any post on this blog will automatically be announced on my twiiter. Testing this out with this post… See you on twitter !

Mar

28

Apache redirect

March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

L’accès à ce blog se fait depuis mon site perso en cliquant sur le lien blog et malheuresement l’url était alors http://samanthahalfon.net/wordpress. Je viens de corriger cela en migrant wordpress dans le repertoire worldgoneweb. Il restait cependant un probleme, si quelqu’un avait sauvegardé un lien vers un ancien post, il ne pourrait plus y [...]

Feb

4

Personnaliser son profil Linkedin

February 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Linkedin est très bien référencé par Google et il n’est pas rare de tomber sur un profil Linkedin en faisant une recherche sur quelqu’un dans Google. La page que l’on voit est alors le profil basic de Linkedin (très sommaire) ; mais il est possible de personnaliser cette page… Pour cela :

Se connecter sur Linkedin
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